Surprising

Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels In the conversation about how to protect and improve brain health, exercise is always at the top of the list. This is because consistent research shows that people who move their bodies are at lower risk for brain … Read more

A surprising renewable power source has “negative carbon emissions,” a new study has found. By harnessing the power of photosynthesis, a team at Concordia University in Wisconsin developed micro photosynthetic power cells that generate electricity from algae. These cells capture … Read more

I recently wrote about the dangers of a nearby supernova, a star exploding close to our own solar system. For astronomers, though, “close” means something different than it does for other people. In this case, a supernova within about 160 … Read more

Any database schema is likely to have plenty of text fields. In this article, I divide text fields into three categories: Small texts: names, slugs, usernames, emails, etc. These are text fields that usually have some low size limit, maybe … Read more

When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? I recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’t typically associated with animation, but turn out to be animatable. This articles … Read more

Sometimes you realize a topic is so fundamental that you’ve never taken the time to really dive into what it is. HTTP is one of those topics for me. When Tim Berners-Lee introduced the world to the Web in 1991, … Read more

Zeroing out a CPU register seems like the simplest and most basic operation imaginable, but in fact x86 CPUs contain a surprising amount of special logic to make this operation run smoothly. The most obvious way of zeroing an x86 … Read more

The Die is Cast: Intel’s 4-bit 4004 chip is widely regarded as the world’s first microprocessor. But it was not without rivals for that title. Photo: Intel Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from … Read more