Strips of sharp metal pins are meant to keep birds away from buildings. Some birds are stealing them to build their nests.

The U.K. Royal Air Force has announced plans to demonstrate highway operations for both the F-35B and the Typhoon.

In 1955, René Dubos famously expressed his “second thoughts on the germ theory”, attributing infectious diseases to various “changing circumstances...

Moodle is a Learning Platform or Learning Management System (LMS) - a free Open Source software package designed to help educators create effective online courses based on sound pedagogical principles. You can download and use it on any computer you have…

Several dozen innoscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most innoscriptions...

By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a deeper truth beyond one system.” But what can such experiments teach us?

Hosts renting out holiday homes on Booking.com are having to wait weeks for their money because the company is doing maintenance on its systems. Payments are suspended until the end of July, and some transactions may be delayed into August, Financieele Dagblad…

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Home metal casting information for building a foundry and melting metal in your backyard. Metalcasting at home with mostly homemade equipment and a small budget.

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a ban on Meta carrying out behavioural advertising based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway. The ban will initially apply until Octo …

A look at the types of bottles, ceramic containers, metal containers, paper, leather and similar containers used to hold medicines during the golden age of piracy. Also discussing period container labels and closures such as corks, tied down bladders and…

CPUlator is a full-system Nios II, ARMv7, RISC-V RV32, and SPIM-compatible MIPS simulator that runs in a web browser. It is designed for education use to teach computer organization and assembly-language programming. The computer simulation includes I/O devices…

Wix is launching a new generative AI tool that can create websites, complete with images, from a text prompt.

Reviewed by Nicolas Jullien

1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.