For the first time, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully demonstrated the efficiency of a rotating detonation engine in space.

Fermi estimates or problems are quick heuristic solutions to apparently insoluble quantitative problems rewarding clever use of real-world knowledge and critical thinking; bibliography of some examples.

Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, a long-term study led by primatologist Crickette Sanz of Washington University in St. Louis documented social ties between individual chimpanzees and gorillas…

It's easy to idealise rationality. After all, it has produced many of the modern wonders of the world, through its application in science and engineering. It's even tempting to let it replace religion, through a faith that all of the great existential questions…

The third-party ticket broker is not allowed to sell tickets to the metal band's upcoming European tour.

There is no one prehistoric meal plan. A modern hunter-gatherer group known as the Hadza has taught researchers surprising things about the highly variable menu consumed by humans past.

This is the strange truth of the modern American brunch: On any given Sunday morning, the majority of people who purchase “lox” to accompany their bagels and cream cheese are not, in fact, getting lox. They may ask for lox, the product may even be labeled…

A Bash one-liner to produce a list of HEX color codes that read like (supposedly) valid English words - hex-colors.txt

Today is TypeScript’s birthday! But this birthday is a special one – 10 years ago today, on October 1st, 2012, TypeScript was unveiled publicly for the first time. The Early Days When TypeScript first debuted, there was a lot of skepticism –

Illumina just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version—and drive the cost down to $200 a pop.

SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open s...

Testing your React apps gives you a safety net. But getting started is cumbersome. Cypress makes it relatively easy. This guide shows you how with a detailed example.

Land plants are green because their photosynthetic pigments reflect green light, even though those wavelengths hold the most energy. Scientists finally understand why. Olena Shmahalo/Quanta...

This latest installment in Safeguard Defenders’ Investigations series takes a deep dive into the Chinese police’s expanding global policing toolkit by examining a seemingly recent campaign to counter

How physics and infrastructure combine to generate (ba dum bum) the power market.

Focusing entirely on data transfer and charging speeds.

Statistics Canada (StatsCan) recently published its population estimates for the second quarter (April to June) of 2022. Along with the raw estimated population growth figure, the report also indicated the significant influence that immigration had on Canada’s…

A tool that can classify water as hot or cold from the sound of pouring.