A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Lonely individuals show atypical neural and linguistic responses to celebrities, diverging from group norms. Their unique perceptions reflect a lack of shared reality, reinforcing feelings of isolation and highlighting deviations in social cognition linked…

The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging ...

A functional Scheme for world domination

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks but faces challenges in visual object tracking, particularly when managing crowded scenes with...

The Epoch Cassette Vision was a moderate success. But in 1983, that all ended, when Nintendo and Sega released new consoles, which had more advanced hardware...

A data scientist’s perspective

When coupled to a piezoelectric fiber, traditional fabrics can serve as emitters or suppressors of sound, emitting sound up to 70 dB or actively reducing noise by up to 37 dB. A 130 µm fabric can als...

Go toolkit for clean, composable, channel-based concurrency - destel/rill

It's never aliens, but it could be underground TV repair techs

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. Its aim is to help frontier models produce better, more relevant…

It only takes four neurons to achieve big things.

What's in a language? Dr Laurie Tratt breaks it down by creating a brand new programming language by writing an interpreter in a few lines of code.

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Down at the Little White School Museum here in Oswego, we have the audio tape and trannoscript of an interview with Dick Young that was done by an unfortunately anonymous high school student back in …

The US Navy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography's unique FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been saved at the last minute from the breaker's yard. Scheduled to be scrapped in Mexico, it was purchased by undersea design company DEEP.

I was frustrated by the gap between stateless and stateful applications in the
cloud. While I could easily spin up a stateless application as a “serverless”
function in any major cloud provider and pretty much forget about it, persisting
data between requests…

Typed, declarative ETL and query language that compiles to SQL.