Science

In October 2025, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) used Google DeepMind's AI model, WeatherNext, to predict Hurricane Melissa's historic Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days in advance, marking the first time a sto…

In 2008, the author worked at RSA, a network security company with a strong nerd culture where prime-number employee IDs were considered lucky. During a monthly HR-organized game, teams were given five minutes to list al…

The article describes the photographic documentation of the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb detonation on July 16, 1945. Photographer Berlyn Brixner, stationed in a bunker, captured the explosion using Mitchell and F…

"Co-Scientist," a multi-agent AI system designed to accelerate research by functioning as a collaborative partner. The project was led by researchers including Juraj Gottweis and Vivek Natarajan, with contributions from …

The article argues that poor pedagogy in mathematics is a significant problem not only in primary and secondary schools but also at the graduate and professional levels. It claims that many graduate-level mathematics tex…

Ana Inês Inácio, an IEEE senior member and research scientist at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), designs integrated circuits for next-generation RF sensor systems that advance radar an…

Ten key technologies expected to define 6G wireless networks, including THz communications, AI/ML, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. It explains that 6G will utilize frequencies above 100 GHz and the 7–24 GHz rang…

The article argues that bionic technologies like exoskeletons and brain-computer interfaces must be evaluated not by impressive lab demonstrations but by their real-world reliability, cost, and usability over time. It hi…

The article summarizes Day 2 of BugBash'26, featuring a talk by infrastructure expert Brian Potter on why buildings rarely collapse due to technical factors like simple structures, redundant load paths, and large safety …

Fundamental physics has experienced a century-long stagnation in ontology, with no new, empirically confirmed description of reality replacing the framework established by general relativity (1915) and the Dirac equation…

The article explains that measuring loudness is complex because it involves both physical sound pressure and human perception. It traces the history from the decibel (dB), developed by Bell Labs in the 1920s for telephon…

Google DeepMind has announced a partnership with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI, support local talent, and cultivate a thriving AI ecos…

The article describes the electromechanical Angle Computer, an analog device used in the B-52 bomber's Astro Compass system during the 1960s to automate celestial navigation before GPS. Unlike a digital computer, this me…

The proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated scientific papers is driven by a "citation revolution" that prioritizes quantitative metrics over genuine discovery. This incentive system encourages scientists to maximize …

The article summarizes the history of IBM's System/4 Pi family of aerospace computers, introduced around 1967, which were used in military aircraft, missiles, submarines, and NASA programs like Skylab and the Space Shutt…

The article explores the concept of combining wood and metal properties to create advanced composite materials, leading to the idea of a Tang-era Chinese sword (Tang dao) made from a silicon carbide and wire-mesh composi…

The article introduces an individual who is a father of two, a husband, and a scientific backend software developer with a PhD in Computational Materials Science from Georgia Tech. It lists their technical expertise in p…

The article distinguishes between "true" and "correct," arguing that scientific theories like Newton's or Einstein's can be "correct" in their predictive accuracy but are never "true." It explains that 19th-century think…

The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, released in the 1980s, could accelerate floating-point calculations on IBM PCs by up to 100 times using complex algorithms implemented in microcode. The chip contains a microcod…

At Supercomputing 2025, EuroHPC, AMD, and Eviden announced the Alice Recoque supercomputer, which will use AMD's upcoming Instinct MI430X GPUs to achieve over 1 Exaflop/s of sustained HPL performance while consuming less…