This is part of Quit It, a series of essays on stopping things—or not. Four times out of five, when I tell a person that I don’t drink, that person responds by telling me how little they drink. Sometimes, they do … Read more
Enlarge / The disks and diagrams Mike Brixius has to work with in finishing his 1984 CRPG project. YouTube/RavenWolf Retro Tech reader comments 100 with There are stories that some of us, at a certain stage of adulthood, should never … Read more
It was an engineering problem that had bugged Zhibin Yu for years — but now he had the perfect chance to fix it. Stuck at home during the first UK lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, the thermal engineer suddenly had all … Read more
Genetic material can’t be recovered from dinosaurs — but it lasts longer than thought. Palaeogeneticist Morten Allentoft used the bones of extinct moa birds to calculate the half-life of DNA. Credit: M. Møhl Few researchers have given credence to claims … Read more