Nature - A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work. Here’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes...

The automaker spends billions every year on frankly exotic R&D, looking to optimize everything from braking to color customization to the supply of battery power in its future cars.

The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable in at least three respects: (i) it was discovered inbound as far as ~29 au from the Sun (with...

The growing size of data centers is raising questions about power, land and the environment.

Over the summer, I hit an anniversary of sorts: I’ve been blogging for two decades (!). For reasons I’ll get to, I’ve been reflecting back on my history of writing in general and blogging in particular.
In 2004, blogging wasn’t exactly new (it had been around…

There’s a right and wrong way to proceed. Here’s how to increase the chances your leader listens and takes action--while reducing the chance they feel threatened.

A new survey from Norway reveals that 50% of young people under 30 believe that pirating content is an acceptable way to save money.

I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...

Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

Communications Engineering - Chomiak and Hu introduce a versatile time-series data prediction algorithm using recurring local topological patterning. This algorithm reduces computational complexity...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed a human infection with avian infl

Several of the signs were concentrated along 28th Street, a busy north-south thoroughfare that the city has identified as being particularly dangerous.

Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash. Contribute to p8952/bocker development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A unique dataset from beneath an Antarctic ice shelf shows a varied icescape created by differential melt mechanisms.