Why do these metronomes sync up? — Watch what happens when you start a metronome ticking on an unstable platform, out of sync with two others. Slowly over time, they all sync up. How does this happen?
Fans reveal how much they paid for World Cup tickets — World Cup fans reveal how much they paid for a seat at the US’s opening game against Paraguay.
NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires - NASA Science — With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem
Sales & Dungeons — Thermal Printer as D&D / TTRPG Utility
Ducks trade McTavish to Blues for Nos. 15, 29 picks in NHL draft — The Ducks moved on from Mason McTavish on Friday, trading the young center to the Blues for the Nos. 15 and 29 picks in Friday's NHL draft.
Galaxy Zoo | Zooniverse - People-powered research — Few have witnessed what you're about to see
Revival project for endangered native trees — The population of black poplar trees has dwindled to around 7,000 trees in the UK and Ireland.
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Ditching cigarettes for vapes may curb the cancer benefits of quitting — A study of 4.5 million people suggests that ex-smokers who take up vaping are more at risk of dying from lung cancer than people who quit without the use of e-cigarettes
Beyond All Reason ★ RTS — Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and air with 2 factions and 400 unique units. Enjoy…
Chennai City Lights - NASA — Chennai, on India's southern coast along the Bay of Bengal and with a metropolitan population of about 8.7 million, shines with white LED streetlights in this
Dungeon Alchemist | Amazing Maps in Seconds — Dungeon Alchemist is a mapmaking application for tabletop RPG
Artemis III Crew Announced - NASA — NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, and NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio take a photo together on
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PrimePages: prime number research records and results — Access to hundreds of pages of award-winning information on prime numbers--with links to thousands of pages elsewhere. We host the searchable database of the 5000 largest known primes (updated hourly). We also have a glossar
UK's rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain — National Trust staff and volunteers will apply 17 tonnes of fresh chalk to the outline of the famous figure.
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) — The encyclopedia of integer sequences.
A biologist mapped how octopuses taste with their arms, and the neural wiring is nothing like what anyone expected.
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Rare butterfly find drives conservation research — Gareth Tilley is credited as being the first to discover the elusive black hairstreak in Surrey.
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe" — Realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games, says Clint Hocking of Splinter Cell and Far Cry fame.
The Operating Room Where Anesthesia Was First Demonstrated Is Now a Landmark. But for the Men Who Claimed Credit, There Was Much Misery — Medical procedures used to be a scream-filled endurance test until doctors at this Boston institution learned to tame the pain of patients
Microplastics in over 75% of pet food, study finds — Researchers say certain brands and kinds of cat and dog food have more microplastics than others.
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civil — How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 — Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap…
Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands - NASA Science — Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.
Too Hot for Art? Some Paris Museums and Landmarks Close or Reduce Hours Amid a Record Heat Wave in Europe — Meanwhile, other institutions offer their air-conditioned spaces as a way for residents and tourists to beat the heat
The speaker matching rule that most home theaters get wrong — Stop mixing speakers from different brands, and your soundstage will thank you.
Read an extract from Slow Gods by Claire North — The New Scientist Book Club’s read for July is Claire North’s space opera Slow Gods. In this extract from its second chapter, we learn about the upbringing of its protagonist on the planet Tu-mdo
Why we think World Cup is 'coming home' for England this summer — Despite not looking brilliant during the group stage, England are among the betting favorites to win the 2026 World Cup and ... well ... Bill Connelly is a believer.
Alice Roberts: 'We are fundamentally, at the end of the day, animals' — Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall
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Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness — A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms can correct its own errors during long computations, an important prerequisite for becoming truly useful
NASA Develops Sensor to Improve Firefighter Safety - NASA — With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will
NASA Finds New Way Earth May Have Received Elements Needed for Life - NASA Science — NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary for the planet to become
Kushner-backed luxury resort plan sparks protests in Albania — Demonstrators say the project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law would harm a protected environment.
Why the Isle of Man is 'ideal' for creating temperate rainforests — Conservationists say the Isle of Man has the perfect conditions to create temperate rainforests.
Taking a 8ft Giant Water Balloon to the Chops - The Slow Mo Guys — Gav and Dan have historically been stationary Giant Balloon guys, but not this June! Find yourself some lovely extras on the Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/theslowmoguys Instagram -…
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85% — <p>Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the<a…
BCP Council Blue Flags awarded but one beach misses out — Keep Britain Tidy awards six Blue Flags but Avon Beach misses out because of a slip-up.
NASA Hosts SpaceX Crew-11 Astronauts for Public Event at Headquarters - NASA — NASA will host a public event featuring three crew members from the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 1. The event, which takes
What happens when you run a CUDA kernel — Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.
What Is Disrupting GPS Over The Whole Of Europe? — Something is disrupting GPS signals across Europe. Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented wh
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country — To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distilled them into “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude — The simple harmonic oscillator and the fundamental role of complex exponents for ODEs. Next chapter on the Laplace Transform video: https://youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs Instead of sponsored ad reads, these lessons are funded di
NASA’s Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length - NASA Science — A new result using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This
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Lego is releasing a Sega Genesis set complete with little controllers — It's not playable, but it's still pretty cool.
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Keep Your Eyes Peeled for Gracie, a Reticulated Giraffe on the Loose in Texas — The tall creature escaped from a private ranch earlier this month and she's been roaming the Texas Hill Country ever since
Soviet Cosmonauts Trained at Star City as They Raced to Beat America to the Moon. Now, a New TV Series Imagines What Happened Behind the Base's Walls — Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the sho
The AdGuard Family lifetime plan is down to $15 for Deal Days — Turn your family’s devices into ad-free zones with this lifetime AdGuard deal.
Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim sentenced to 10 years for corruption — Indonesia court finds former education minister guilty of abuse of authority and of causing state losses.
Sale halted of farm which inspired Narnia — A charity has reversed a decision to sell the Herefordshire farm, said to have inspired CS Lewis.
A promising natural technique to remove CO2 could backfire — Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the levels of nutrients in the ocean and hamper other CO2-sucking processes
A Stolen Picasso Just Turned Up During a Drug Raid Near Paris, Reportedly Taken From a Storage Facility — The painting has been authenticated but not revealed. Reports suggest it is one of Picasso's portraits of Marie-Thérèse Walter
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Biohub releases a world model of protein biology — Open AI models used for a wide range of scientific applications, including accelerating the design of therapeutic molecules.
Stokes' England career ends with NZ series defeat — Ben Stokes’ storied England career ends in a series defeat by New Zealand, who wrap up the third and deciding Test on the final day in Nottingham.
How 'Backrooms' All Started With This Photograph — Dive into the internet lore.