For nearly 800 years, the Darkhad have claimed to be the official guardians of the soul of Genghis Khan. But controversy abounds.

The aftermath of Richard Stallman rejoining the Free Software Foundation (FSF) continues as a long-time donor and contributor suspends its funding to the foundation

I published a slightly different version of this article in Nautilus on February 24, 2021. Everyone seems to be talking about the problems with physics: Woit’s book Not Even Wrong, Smolin&#82…

U.S. Department of Energy Announces Goal to Cut Solar Costs by More Than Half by 2030

In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway. The city's local government, @Stockholmsstad, spent 1 billion Swedish crowns (100 million dollars) over 7 years to build a massive do-everything school IT platform, which students, teachers and parents…

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how mycelium could be used to make sustainable building materials and why RBC ranks so high on the list of banks funding the fossil fuel industry.

There’s an old saying that we can learn a lot about people by looking at their trash. The same can hold true about programming languages. More precisely, we can learn a lot about a programming language by looking at its garbage collection. This post kicks…

And Elon Musk must delete 2018 tweet threatening loss of benefits for unionizing

Erdős posed and solved problems in number theory and other areas and founded the field of discrete mathematics.

historical period of unusually severe weather

As tech campuses became ghost towns, the people who kept them running—cooks, custodians, drivers—faced an existential threat to their livelihoods.

How a younger generation used the Internet to master the falling blocks.

Scholar Monica Green combined the science of genetics with the study of old texts to reach a new hypothesis about the plague

The Department of Defense has ordered the burning of 20m pounds of AFFF – despite risks to human health

Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first computer game blockbusters.

Starting in the eighteenth century, citizens were promised their rights in print. Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?