Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author ...

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Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or is ...

Are you familiar with pop tubes? Resembling the corrugated section of a bendy straw, they are at the core of PopTuber, an intriguing research project from the Actuated Experience Lab at the University ...

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We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...

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Whenever the topic of fusion power comes up, someone will say it’s only 10 years away from commercialization in an excited tone, and someone older or more cynical will point out that ...

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t hitting theaters for another month or so, but if you’re already planning your trip to ...

It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized assembler ...