The secret history of the world’s largest nuclear detonation is coming to light after 60 years. The United States dismissed the gigantic Tsar Bomba as a stunt, but behind the scenes was working to build a “superbomb” of its own.

Signal still knows nothing about you, but inexplicably the government continues to ask.

WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?

This article presents an emerging architectural hypothesis of the brain as a biological implementation of a Universal Learning Machine.  I present a…

Toyota has unveiled what could be considered as its first all-electric car: the bZ4X, an electric SUV packed with cool features. We already saw the car when Toyota unveiled it as a concept at the Shanghai Motor Show, but it didn’t release any spec or details…

We investigated sex differences in 473,260 adolescents’ aspirations to work in things-oriented (e.g., mechanic), people-oriented (e.g., nurse), and STEM (e.g., mathematician) careers across 80 countries and economic regions using the 2018 Programme for International…

The FAA has approved approximately 611 more engine models to burn General Aviation Modifications Inc.'s 100-octane unleaded avgas that, when combined with approvals announced in July, account for about 70 percent of the GA aircraft fleet's powerplants. An…

More and more people are collecting vintage computers. And they’re getting more than they bargained for.

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From Pompeii to modern laboratories, scholars are working to recreate garum, a sauce made from decaying fish that delighted ancient Rome

In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to

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In a grassy plain in South Africa, once the world's largest gold producer, prospectors have stumbled upon a new treasure: helium.

[UPDATE May 17 2022: I added one command line in the demo section to automatically select the latest version of PostgreSQL RDS engine] Many of our customers are telling us they want to move away from proprietary database vendors to avoid expensive costs and…

Responding to Rand Fishkin's 'What if Performance Advertising is Just an Analytics Scam?'

Honey bees modify their social organization to hinder the spread of parasites within the colony.