Science & Exploration 13/06/2022 25674 views 79 likes Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way … Read more
The strange detention of EU diplomats returning from Tehran On the morning of May 13, Enrique Mora, the political director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), was briefly retained in the Frankfurt airport by the German police upon his … Read more
On a warm day in September 2009, Jason Hargett, a 35-year-old restaurant manager and father of 4, stepped up to the tee at Red Ledges golf resort in Heber City, Utah. It was the end of a charity tournament and … Read more
A loss of TET enzymes, which demethylate DNA, may cause cancer. In TET deficient mice, DNA forms strange structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s) and R-loops that may drive cancer development, a December 22 study in Nature Immunology suggests. The paper “is … Read more
Mike Pondsmith started playing Dungeons & Dragons in the late seventies, as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis. The game, published just a few years before, popularized a newish form of entertainment: tabletop role-playing, in which players, typically … Read more
These days, a domain name is about as easy to acquire as it is to conceive of. If no one else already has your idea, you can get whatever nonsense you can think of for less than US$20 per year. … Read more
I’ve long been obsessed with the hidden power of song. I’m not talking about how music entertains us, or even its higher artistic potentialities, but something bigger and grander. I look to music as a change agent in human life, … Read more
Arno Funke wanted to be a cartoonist, but it wasn’t working out. He grew up in a working-class family in West Berlin, in the nineteen-fifties, and spent his childhood tinkering with chemistry kits and sending gunpowder rockets whizzing into the … Read more
IBM used some unusual techniques in its integrated circuits, and one of the most visible is packaging them in square metal cans. I’ve been studying these chips recently, since there’s not a lot of information about them. I opened up … Read more
