We combine novel micro data with the quasi-random timing of patent decisions over the business cycle to estimate the effects of being born in the Great Recessio

Scientists have spent 18 years looking for the elusive Cross Seamount beaked whale—a potentially new species they’ve heard but never seen.

On October 16, the crew of a Lufthansa A350 inbound to San Francisco found themselves in an unenviable situation: a seemingly unnecessary last-minute diversion to Oakland after a long-haul flight. The diversion was forced by ATC, following the crews inability…

There are a lot of different answers, just as with hydrogen for energy. There's a circle of hope, delusion and despair that is grasping at SMR straws.

The scientist studies the molecular clock mechanisms of bacteria, plants and biomedical research’s most popular insect, the fruit fly

D is a general-purpose programming language with static typing, systems-level access, and C-like syntax.

Former Wall Street banker Randall Atkins got a lot more than he bargained for when he paid $2 million for a Wyoming coal mine without even seeing it in 2012. At the time, he planned to make money selling coal from his mine to other plants. That was before…

Specification work for JSON Web Proofs. Contribute to json-web-proofs/json-web-proofs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team,  Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business –…

For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?

It was the evening of 16 December 1773. At Boston’s Old South Meeting House, more than 5,000 people awaited word from the governor of Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Hutchinson. Had the governor finally given in to their demand to send back to England the three…

Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.

Public open-source code of malware Stuxnet (aka MyRTUs). - research-virus/stuxnet

It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes. We co...

The UE-1 is one of my favorite projects to date, but there’s no denying that it’s weird as far as computers go. So weird in fact, nearly everyone who got hands on with it at the last event I had it at was completely lost as to what it was or how it worked.…

Music streaming service axes 17% of workforce in latest round of redundancies at big tech companies

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

Japanese parents and educators say the children are learning to respect their surroundings.