What are the chances, after all, that the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak should occur within literal walking distance of the leading research and collection centre in the world for SARS-like bat coronaviruses? This article explains the specific lab accident…

Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

This article will be the first in an occasional recurring series of articles that point out little-known historical character stories in Unicode.
The character in question is U+213a, ROTATED CAPITAL Q. It is a Capital Q turned 90° counter-clockwise.

This complete guide explains all about Linux system calls with sample codes and results.

A Letter from a Web Developer

5-min read US university presidents and chancellors, enough already. It’s time to end the consensual hallucination between university leadership, parents, and students that in-person classes will resume in the fall. The bold statements from presidents and…

Munich-based Wirecard, founded in 1999, was established with the intention of assisting websites with credit card payment collections from custo...

The path to conducting better nutrition science entails recognising previous and inherent limitations and challenges and building on recent developments and opportunities, say Tim Spector and Christopher Gardner

No other scientific field is so influenced…

The maverick director on the myths surrounding his movies — and his latest film, about a Japanese rent-a-family business

A group of techies has borrowed a meme-and-emoji combination to purportedly design an invite-only app that has use that nobody's figured out.

A naturalist cuts through the myths surrounding the invasive plant

Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?

And why I am trying to minimize my dependence on external libraries (whenever possible).

Three studies showing large DNA deletions and reshuffling heighten safety concerns about heritable genome editing.

A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism

Starting as early as 2015 when Trump was still a candidate, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the president and making changes to the company's products to accommodate him. Those changes have transformed the company and the world's information…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.N) filed for Chapter 11 on Sunday, becoming the largest U.S. oil and gas producer to seek bankruptcy protection in recent years as it bowed to heavy debts and the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on energy…