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Argonne National Lab says it has created a new eletrochemical process that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol efficiently and at low cost.

Research spanning 20 years proves PDFs are problematic for online reading. Yet they’re still prevalent and users continue to get lost in them. They’re unpleasant to read and navigate and remain unfit for digital-content display.

What does it feel like to be an octopus? Does it feel like anything at all? Many philosophers think consciousness is an...

Indoor plants need what your domestic life needs

Some years ago I decided to install a server at home for use as a NAS (network-attached storage) in my home network, and for an Internet-facing server. I live in a place where blackouts are very in…

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to end requirements that oil and gas producers detect and fix greenhouse-gas emissions.

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency. EC2 networks dropping packets, EBS volumes hanging and failing, entire AZs dropping offline, etc. If it breaks 0.001% of the time in us-east-1, I want it to break 1% of the time in…

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NJ Spotlight analysis finds that New Jersey election officials did not count ballots for several reasons, often because of issues with signatures

The closures of gyms and health clubs earlier this year caused traditional gym-goers to re-evaluate how to stay active. This resulted in a number of new habits being formed like in-home workouts. Now, few people have an excuse to not workout. Could this create…