2020-03-09 Katherine Harmon Courage In the February 20 issue of Cell, one team of scientists announced that they — and a powerful deep learning algorithm — had found a totally new antibiotic, one with an unconventional mechanism of action that…
2020-02-04 Jennifer Ouellette Study reveals that polymers of varying strand lengths are the key ingredient. The article includes the recipe for blowing gigantic bubbles.
2020-03-03 Dan Heath When you spend years responding to problems, you can sometimes overlook the fact that you could be preventing them.
2020-02-10 Miguel Ferreira The only way you can get people to do anything is by giving them what they want. How David Bowie charmed journalists.
2020-02-24 Mike Seymour When the redesign [of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie] was commissioned, Artist Tyson Hesse, who had worked on previous Sonic the Hedgehog media, was brought on to lead the redesign. “But a lot of the work that…
2017-08-16 Jason Yu “Do you think that games could ever move out of those kinds of constraints [of needing to loop indefinitely]?” The music of Breath of the Wild is breaking the Loop Constraint all the time, in different ways,…
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2020-02-06 Jay Holben For decades, green- and bluescreen compositing was the go-to solution for bringing fantastic environments and actors together on the screen. . . . However, when characters are wearing highly reflective costumes, as is the case with Mando…
2020-02-13 Tommy Thompson One of the biggest headlines in AI research for 2019 was the unveiling of AlphaStar – Google DeepMind’s project to create the worlds best player of Blizzard’s real-time strategy game StarCraft II. After shocking the world in…
2020-01-26 by Ben Carlson “there were many stories in the local papers about the dilapidated state of the famous Eiffel Tower. A light bulb went off in Lustig’s head. He set about creating a fake government role for himself, complete…