What Causes These Mysterious Fairy Circles?
2016-03-14 Ed Yong For decades, scientists have puzzled over bizarre circles in the Namibian landscape. Now, they’ve found more in Australia.
Researchers have discovered a much faster way to learn new skills
2016-02-12 Christopher Ingraham If you’re trying to improve your golf swing or master that tricky guitar chord progression, here’s some good news from researchers at Johns Hopkins University: You may be able to double how quickly you learn skills like…
The upside-down world of the Gulf’s dead zone
2015-12-10 Robynne Boyd Farming runoff turns the sea floor into a wet desert and forces species onward or upward.
This tiny star has a massive storm raging on it – just like Jupiter’s
2015-12-11 Rachel Feltman
Grilled Pizza… You Know You Want To
2019-06-07 hippybear
Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign Proteins
2019-05-03 Jordana Cepelewicz Immunologists confirm an old hunch: T-cells identify what belongs in the body by timing how long they can bind to it.
Back to Basics (What’s happening at a low level in computer programs)
2001-12-11 Joel Spolsky What’s happening at a low level in computer programs.
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
2019-10-13 Ian Leslie Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analyzing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionized the art of extracting the truth.
Why software projects take longer than you think – a statistical model
2019-04-15 Erik Bernhardsson Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work…
How a Gay Character on Arthur Reflects Changing Norms in the U.S.
2019-05-14 Ashley Fetters and Natalie Escobar This week, PBS portrayed a same-sex relationship on a children’s TV series—and got much more positive feedback than the last time it tried.