An Earth-bound asteroid wouldn’t have to be huge to be a problem. Even something just a couple of hundred feet across could cause widespread devastation if it hit a town or city. For the objects we can track (and plenty slip by without our realizing until…

FAST has superior sensitivity to detect cosmic phenomena, including fast radio bursts and pulsars.

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The abacus is still taught in Japanese schools, although not as intensively as it once was. But the centuries-old tool is still popular, and national tournaments attract elite competitors.

<p>A common question seen on many open source mailing lists is “When will you guys fix my bug? It is critical to my company!”...

DocumentCloud, an open-source platform that allows journalists and their readers to upload, analyze, annotate and collaborate on primary source documents, was founded in 2009 with a grant from the...

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We are now happy to announce that QUIC and HTTP/3 support is available on the Cloudflare edge network. We’re excited to be joined in this announcement by Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, two of the leading browser vendors and partners in our effort to make…

TL;DR: My name is Jeremy Rossmann. I dropped out of MIT and started [Make School](https://www.makeschool.com). It’s the college I wished existed -...

In the arms race between predators and prey, each evolves more and more sophisticated ways of catching or escaping from the other. Rachel Page, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

The future of hydrocarbons is becoming bleak if plans presented by international banks, representing around $41 trillion in value, will be fully implemented

I recently found myself racing to fill out Chipotle’s online order form before my mother could find her credit card. In the process, I discovered a bug that could cost Chipotle $4.4 million annually. My parents are retired. They continue to try to pay for…

Average scores dropped on the SAT this past test-taking cycle, with a greater percentage of high-school students not ready for college-level work, according to results released Tuesday by the College Board.

Food delivery in New York City is nothing new: it’s been possible to have pizza or Chinese takeout brought to your door since the 1950s. Yet in the newer online delivery industry, startups, flush with venture capital, have both altered and entrenched this…

One story from WeWork’s inevitable blow-up: Our offices offer few spaces for deep work.

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A new movement of teenage climate activists — most of whom are girls — are getting dragged, doxed, hacked, and harassed online.