Some terminal frustrations
Julia Evansby Julia Evans5 Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you?
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top 52%AI Could Be Making Scientists Less Creative
Scienceby Todd Feathers15 Dec 2024
Adopting artificial intelligence tools to analyze data and model outcomes has a huge impact on the career prospects of young scientists, significantly increasing their chances of rising to...
PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data | Robert Heaton
Robert Heaton4 Dec 2024
“Where are we daddy?” asked my five-year-old. “We’ll land in about an hour,” I said. “No I mean where are we? Are we flying over Italy yet?” I wasn’t sure.
Nectar Soda
Atlas Obscuraby Ugc3 Dec 2024
Though Cincinnati is best known for breweries, another effervescent beverage has a long history in the Queen City: the nectar soda. Home to the oldest pharmacy college in the U.S.
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood2 Dec 2024
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? (Arrival is a fantastic movie.
This new 4K projector is tempting me to replace my LG C2 TV, just so I can watch Slow Horses on a 200-inch display
iMoreby Daryl Baxter21 Sept 2024
You probably have a large TV as big as 80 inches in your front room. But have you considered a projector that can deliver video as big as 200 inches?
What Was the First Recreational Drug?
Scienceby Daniel Kolitz31 Aug 2024
Sex, war, and getting insanely high: Society might’ve changed in the last 60,000 years or so, but these interests have remained constant.
Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong
Scienceby Matthew Gault23 Aug 2024
Scientists have trained an inanimate lump of goo to play the video game Pong. As reported in New Scientist and described in a research paper from scientists at the University of Reading...
Study Finds No Strong Evidence for Benefits of Wim Hof Method
Scienceby Ed Cara15 Mar 2024
New research this week seems to throw cold water on the Wim Hof method, an endurance training technique that intentionally exposes people to frigid temperatures.
Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?
The Gradientby Jérémy Cohen8 Mar 2024
In 1928, London was in the middle of a terrible health crisis, devastated by bacterial diseases like pneumonia, tuberculosis, and meningitis.
Google at APS 2024
Google AI Blogby Google AI (noreply@blogger.com)4 Mar 2024
March 4, 2024 Kate Weber and Shannon Leon, Google Research, Quantum AI Team Today the 2024 March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) kicks off in Minneapolis, MN.
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells
The Gradientby Fatima Zahra El Hajji13 Jan 2024
The history of each living being is written in its genome, which is stored as DNA and present in nearly every cell of the body.
These Volunteers Will Stay in Bed for Two Straight Months for Space Travel Experiment
Scienceby Ed Cara23 May 2023
Twelve people are about to embark on the world’s longest sleepover, all in the name of space research. The group will be confined to beds designed to mimic the rigors of space for 60 days straight.
New NASA Official Took Her Oath of Office on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’
Scienceby Passant Rabie10 Apr 2023
When Dr. Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center last week, she didn’t take her oath of office on the Bible or the U.S.
How the Brains of Fighter Pilots Can Help Us Prepare for Prolonged Missions in Space
Scienceby Frontiers Science News17 Feb 2023
A new study investigates whether F16 fighter pilots demonstrate brain connectivity changes that could be expected in astronauts, based on similar exposure to changes in g-forces.
Sam Edwards in Updates | February 1, 2023
Handstand Samby Sam Edwards1 Feb 2023
Kotlin companion objects allow you to add static data and methods associated with a class. This is similar to how Java has static fields and methods.
An Imposter Claiming to Be an Astronaut Wooed a Japanese Woman Into Paying for a 'Return Ticket to Earth'
Scienceby Passant Rabie10 Oct 2022
A 65-year-old woman in Japan paid the equivalent of $30,000 in a recent online scam that defied gravity.
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
Dan Luu12 Sept 2022
I've been reading a lot of predictions from people who are looking to understand what problems humanity will face 10-50 years out (and sometimes longer) in order to work in areas that will be...
You Won't Have Fauci to Kick Around Anymore
Scienceby Ed Cara22 Aug 2022
Long-time public health official Anthony Fauci is set to retire from government soon. Fauci said Monday that he will leave his current roles as an advisor to the White House and a leading official...
Degrees of the Future 2022: Neuroscience
Scienceby Gizmodo Staff11 Aug 2022
Neuroscientists study the brain and its various complex capabilities, from memory and learning to human behavior and consciousness.