40 лет назад молодой советский ученый Алексей Пажитнов, заскучав на работе в вычислительном центре советского НИИ, написал компьютерную игру. Первая, примитивная версия на компьютере «Электроника-60» была готова 6 июня 1984 года. Так появился «Тетрис».

Underwater noise from ships has gotten louder, reshaping marine ecosystems and the lives of animals that depend on sounds to eat, mate, and navigate. Can ships ever pipe down?

State-space models (SSMs) have emerged as a potential alternative architecture for building large language models (LLMs) compared to the previously ubiquitous transformer architecture. One...

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It is hard to recapture the unbridled enthusiasm the world had for concrete, when, in the early twentieth century, it first became widely available. Yet in those years, the possibilities for concrete were seen as endless and noble. Concrete—pourable, moldable…

How a system designed for circus performers and traveling salesmen helps homeless people access services.

The world's largest solar farm, which sits in the desert in northwestern Xinjiang, is now connected to China's grid.

If an expert can't understand your explanation, you've dumbed it down too much!

Duck Hunt is considered a classic of the Nintendo Entertainment System. But surprisingly, the concept of hunting ducks did not originate in 1984– people have...

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The men who leaped from planes into the world’s greatest battle tell their harrowing story, in their own words.

Bracing for a surge in demand for electricity driven by power-hungry EVs and AI data centers, utilities adopt new tech to help boost transmission capacity.

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50,000 years ago, North America was ruled by megafauna. Lumbering mammoths roamed the tundra, while forests were home to towering mastodons, fierce saber-toothed tigers and enormous wolves. Bison and ...

Retired American astronaut William Anders, who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew, was killed in a plane crash just off the San Juan Islands on Friday afternoon.

More than 30 years ago, the "French paradox" got America bleary-eyed.