My husband and I visited the Library of Congress on the final day of winter break this year. In a corner, we found a facsimile of a hand-drawn map: the world as viewed by sixteenth-century Europeans. North America looked like …
Our universe is a very strange place, but a new dark matter simulation seems to suggest that we live in a particularly strange area in it. According to a new paper published by a group of astrophysicists, simulations seem to …
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Branching cracks wend through the slopes of Utah in this photograph by Matt Payne. It may seem strange to feature something so dry on a blog about fluid dynamics, but everything seen here depends as much on air and water …
Like millions of people, I couldn’t stop myself from spending a fair amount of time recently doing searches here, where one can read endless emails, texts, etc. showing in detail what Jeffrey Epstein was up to over many years. I …
Of the more than 4,500 stars known to have planets, one puzzling statistic stands out. Even though nearly all stars are expected to have planets and most stars form in pairs, planets that orbit both stars in a pair are …
Lost Women of Science Updates Wikipedia Lost Women of Science On February 11, 2026—the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s Discoverability Lab and Lost Women of Science are hosting a virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: …
By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing. MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat instead of electricity. These …
📖Read Time: 3 minutes 📊Readability: Easy (6th-7th grade) 🔖Core Topics: ai, codecs, based, netflix, evc Introduction Modern Video codecs are all based on similar principles. Recently, these have been complemented by AI techniques, such as super-resolution, to form hybrid codecs. …
My top 10 ghosts (solo acts and ensembles). If Bruce Willis being a ghost in The Sixth Sense is a spoiler, that’s on you — the movie has been out for 26 years. Einstein and I have both been spooked …