Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites—creatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All trilobites had a wide range of vision, thanks to compound ...

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Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?

CubeDesk is an advanced Rubik's Cube timer that offers 1v1, alg trainer, leaderboards, mini-games, and more.

The original game held a wealth of surprises. Its meta-obsessed follow-up has even more.

New home loans are deepening the role of volatile digital assets in the real estate market.

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Scientific Reports - Mapping the “catscape” formed by a population of pet cats with outdoor access

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I recently acquired a Sinclair Scientific calculator from 1974, alongside a large bundle of vintage computers – this was an unexpected (but very welcome) surprise and is in fact my first vint…

For centuries, sleeping outside has been embraced or condemned, depending on who’s doing it.

Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: “Oh man. Everything here is broken! It sucks! There’s so much to do and not enough people to do it. We’re missing so many things, we don’t know where to start!…

This blog post was also posted as a wall of text on GNOME’s Discourse to share the results of the survey with the broader GNOME Community.
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Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd

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