The Coastline Isn’t Fractal
It was 1967. Benoit Mandelbrot looked at Great Britain’s map. He couldn't measure the coast. The perimeter got longer the harder he looked. Eight...
1,000-Year-Old Dingo Bones Tell a Story of Care and Burial
We think we know how humans treat animals. Then comes this.
About a thousand years ago along the Baaka, or Darling River, a male dingo...
Marijuana Is Remodeling The Teen Brain
The Trump administration decided to move some cannabis products from Schedule I down to Schedule III on April 23. Advocates cheered. They argued weed...
Don’t Let The Coaster Kill You (Because It Probably Won’t)
Summer is here. Heat. Crowds. Screaming.
You’re planning on hitting up an amusement park. Maybe you’re chasing the new record holders. Falcon’s Flight is debuting...
Move Beyond the Horoscope
Most astrology apps are hollow quintessenceway.com/.
Generic text. Repetitive predictions. That vague, mass-produced feeling of “this could apply to anyone.” It leaves you unchanged. Disconnected....
Span Is Turning Your Side Yard Into a Data Center
A box the size of an air conditioning unit. Sitting in your side yard. Humming with AI tasks while you sleep.
It draws power from...
A Quiet Atlantic? Don’t Get Comfy. The Pacific is Angry
Below normal. That is the word on the street. At least, for the Atlantic.
NOAA’s Neil Jacobs dropped the forecast Thursday, painting a picture of...
42 Days of Nothing: The Hantavirus Lockdown
We think we know isolation. Sixteen months of masks and empty restaurants burned the concept of social distancing into our brains. We remember the...
Wearing Shipwrecks: When History Hits the Runway
Most people think pirates and gold. Not haute couture.
When a sunken ship surfaces, it usually goes straight to a museum display case. Studied. Preserved....
Psyche Snaps a Mars Selfie Before Getting Serious
Space tourism. Or maybe just good optics. NASA’s Psyche mission swung past the Red Planet last week. It didn't just wave. It snapped photos....
The Worker Bee Revolution: Who Really Makes the Queen?
Bumble bees aren’t monarchies. At least, not the strict kind.
For years we assumed the queen sat on her throne while everything else bent the...
The Ancestral Knuckle
A Wrist Mystery
We want to know how our distant kin walked.
Did the last ancestor shared by humans and apes knuckle-walk like a chimp? Or...
Очистка рядов руководства NIAID набирает обороты
Врата закрываются. И совсем не тихо.
Трем ведущим ученым Национального института аллергии и инфекционных заболеваний (NIAID) их новые начальники выдали жесткий ультиматум: либо уйти из...
Quantum computing is on the brink
Inside a low-slung office building near San Francisco, white tanks glow blue.
They hold superconducting chips suspended by gold chandelier structures, submerged in liquid helium...
Wschodnie miasta zaczęły się gotować przed czasem. Winny jest system antycykloniczny Bermudów
Obok siebie, jak w lipcu.
Dla mieszkańców wschodniej części Stanów Zjednoczonych połowa maja to szczyt lata. Wczesna fala upałów pobiła rekordy.
Spójrz na Boston....
Japan Is Running Out of Robot Wolves. Bears Don’t Care.
It works. Mostly. That’s the problem now. Japan needs more Monster Wolves, the creepy, fur-clad robots designed to scare away the island’s aggressive bear...
Hoefijzerkrabben zijn geen insecten. Het zijn levende fossielen.
De botsauto van een buitenaards wezen. Vreemde uitpuilende ogen die terugstaren. Geen plasmamotoren. Geen anti-zwaartekracht. Slechts tien spinachtige poten die je nauwelijks ziet.
Ze...
Twój test na depresję może kłamać
Liczby się nie sumują.
Przez lata psychologowie wierzyli, że standardowe kwestionariusze mogą równie dokładnie mierzyć depresję u każdego. Jednak nie jest to prawdą. Stanisław...
Canvas Down : un autre désastre en matière de données scolaires
30 millions d'utilisateurs. C’est à peu près la base active de Canvas. Instructure le gère. Des milliers d’écoles américaines l’utilisent pour noter, enseigner et...
The War in Iran Is Burning Out the Persian Gulf’s Secrets
It started in late February.
Since then the Middle East has taken a pounding, the Persian Gulf right in the crosshairs. Mines are everywhere in...