New research finds that having rich friends predicts moving up in the world.

Facebook has given information to Nebraska police to prosecute a teenager for abortion despite claims to encrypt user data.

Step-by-step tutorials and uses cases for the figure-8, prusik, clove hitch, munter hitch, and more

(This is Part II of the Faster Ruby posts, which started with a retrospective on Ruby+OMR, a Ruby JIT compiler I worked on five years ago )

Musk said months ago he didn't plan to sell any more Tesla shares.

Much ado was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Though it was touted as giving ordinary matter mass, interactions with the Higgs field only generate about 1 ...

Electric vehicles present a real opportunity to take a step towards better designed, more reliable, and sustainable transport. Instead, e...

Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost.

Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 On Friday, July 29th, I was in the immigration line at an airport in Mexico. My phone rang with Bill Gasarch on th...

In a study of patients with locally advanced mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR) rectal cancer, 6 months of treatment with the anti–PD-1 agent dostarlimab-gxly alone led to clinical complete responses in...

A new way to think about brainpower.

How to Choose the Right Python Concurrency API Python standard library offers 3 concurrency APIs. How do you know which API to use in your project? In this tutorial, you will discover a helpful step-by-step procedure and helpful questions to guide you to…

The ruins were originally uncovered in Scarborough, England, last year