MIT Media Lab researchers introduced a new method for controlled experimentation with hypnagogic dreams. The Dormio: Targeted Dream Incubation protocol helps record dream reports and guides dreams toward particular themes at sleep onset. The work was led…

I. Some old news I only just heard about: PETA is offering to pay the water bills for needy Detroit families if (and only if) those families agree to stop eating meat. Predictably, the move caused …

Better understanding the synergy between radiation and corrosion is necessary to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. Here, the authors contradict the misconception that radiation always results in deleterious effects and show that proton irradiation slows the…

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The irony of the American economy is that the people at the top are often as unhappy and overworked as those at the bottom.

The software ecosystem has a lot of useful but unsafe code, and the easier it is to sandbox that code, the moreoften that’ll happen. If it were as simple as ...

UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.

Update: This leak has partially inaccurate information. Please refer to this exclusive for the full story. A huge report from DigiTimes has leaked out claiming that Intel's Ponte Vecchio GPU has found its home on TSMC's lower-cost 6nm process. The leak originally…

The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page

Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its government

The applied math classic Courant & Hilbert was banned in Nazi Germany. The US seized the copyright and published an English edition.

I’ve been reading lots more non-fiction books than normal. And I’m getting increasingly annoyed about footnotes1. Footnotes are a weird skeuomorph hangover from the days of printed text…

Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today.

Using the best tool for a job may slow things down. It may be "best" in a sense you don't need. The actual best tool might be relatively crude.