Scientists have accomplished a key step in the long-term ambition to engineer nitrogen-fixation into non-legume cereal crops by demonstrating that barley can instruct soil bacteria to convert nitrogen from the air into ammonia fertiliser.

For latency, anyway.
A common architecture pattern is the “task queue”: tasks enter an ordered queue, workers pop tasks and process them. This pattern is used everywhere from distributed systems to thread pools. It applies just as well to human systems, like…

Defending your right to modify and repair the software on your electronics has been a cornerstone of Software Freedom Conservancy since its inception. We defend these rights in a variety of ways: petitioning the Copyright Office to return our repair and…

What is pre-Code Hollywood? The quickest definition is this: “pre-Code” refers to an era in motion pictures from the arrival of sound (aka ‘talkies’) in 1927 to the mandator…

After 32 years, a Florida man sentenced to life in prison for murder because he had the same name as another suspect is finally free.

Court watchers can’t recall a previous time when a draft opinion was publicly disclosed before a decision.

Small, transportable modules could emerge as future nuclear plants are distributed across Canada.

How the performance trade-off in my cross-platform web app went unnoticed by users.

As one of the concrete steps towards realizing the ambition of self-reliance and a momentous stride

A set of minimal dependency bootstrap binaries. Contribute to oriansj/stage0 development by creating an account on GitHub.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.

Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty.
When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem has been solved before, we could just reuse the solution that already exists. Frequently though, the exact problem (or combination of…