A study from MIT and Harvard Medical School sheds light on the cellular mechanisms that may account for how behavioral symptoms of autism diminish during a fever. In a study of mice, the researchers found that in some cases of infection, an immune molecule…

An analysis of submissions to two top journals showed that scientists in the U.S. were highly likely to be working during holidays.

Smartphones leave a trail that anyone — and any foreign government — could follow.

Malicious code can be inserted into any GitHub action, even those which are tagged.

The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathematical challenge.

The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.

Dear friends, First, and above all else: thank you. Thank you for being a part of our community. Thank you for caring about Flickr. Two years ago, Flickr was losing tens of millions of dollars a ye…

Weird electron-positrons from decaying beryllium and helium hint at new boson.

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

The Kernighan and Ritchie book opens with the “Hello, World” example. The C++ Programming Language follows an annotated table of contents with “The purpose of a programming langua…

When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of 10 sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster.

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Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an “eerie, tech-enabled future of disinformation.”

I was 40,000 words deep when I realized that my book was not working. Titled Poet’s Calculus, it was a tour of the concepts of calculus, connecting each to a topic in the humanities. Interested in …

How flawed genetic testing could be used for more than screwing up your race.