Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same neurological resources, which are located in the same brain region. Furthermore…

Consumer Reports found that herbs and spices might contain arsenic, cadmium, and lead, based on tests of products from McCormick, Whole Foods, and dozens of other big brands.

Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube player (written in Flash) with an HTML ...

In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man, his body wasted by AIDS, surrounded by family members as he took his last breaths.

All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.

  As the chlorophyll wanes, now is the heyday of the xanthophylls, carotenoids and anthocyanins. These contain carbon rings and chains whose electrons become delocalized… their wavefunct…

Thanks to recent commits by @ChristianHeimes, I figured out the correct incantations to build CPython's main branch for the web! This is stock Python running *in the browser*. My noscripts to build this are at github.com/ethanhs/python… Lots of work to fix…

T-Mobile has just announced that it will be delaying its CDMA shutdown by a few months.  Originally, T-Mobile planned to shutdown the network by January 1, 2022; which will give partners “plenty of time and resources to take care of their customers as well.”…

Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.

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Scientific Reports - A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)

Update (Dec 3, 2021): We’ve received an overwhelming number of requests for the Fleet Early Preview program. Unfortunately we can't accept any new requests, but we will continue sending invites to tho

Long before Facebook or Twitter, an L.L. Bean-style catalog for hippies inspired the creation of one of the world’s first social networks.

Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.

The UK competition regulator is expected to block Meta Platforms' acquisition of online GIF platform Giphy in the coming days, the Financial Times reported on Monday.