You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents’ Day, but to say it’s a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement. The best Presidents’ Day deals are usually on mattresses, appliances and furniture, but you can find some decent tech sales thrown in as well. This year, Presidents’ Day comes right after Valentine’s Day…
There is a saying in the halls of British political power that scientific advisers should be “on tap, not on top”. This pithy aphorism, often attributed to Winston Churchill, highlights that, in a democracy, science should guide – not dictate – policy-makers’ decisions. Never was this truer than at the height of the covid-19 pandemic….
Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. As always, we’ve got a bunch of neat games to tell you about. Perhaps I’ll tear myself away from playing as Chappell Roan in Fortnite or Jetpack Cat in Overwatch long enough to check more of them out. Thanks to the…
Ryoji Ikeda’s data-cosm [n°1] Alice Lubbock Thomas LewtonFeatures editor, London Since the mid-2000s, electronic musician and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has transformed vast quantities of data into immersive installations that transport you inside invisible scientific realms. When visiting his new work data-cosm [n°1], which sets out to “chart the full spectrum of data on nature”,…
The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you’ll have to file a Freedom of Information Act request if you want to access any of the content it removed, according to NPR. The publication reports that the State Department is removing all posts from before President Trump’s…
We may never know the universal wave function VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images From the vantage point of quantum physics, the universe may in some ways be fundamentally unknowable. In quantum physics, every object, such as an electron, is matched to a mathematical formula called the wave function. The wave function encodes all the…
Five years ago, a retired police officer spotted a 7-year-old girl walking alone in her New Jersey neighborhood. The stranger stopped her, questioned her about where she lived and whether she was alone, then called the police. When officers arrived, the girl gave them her address which was just a few blocks away. They walked…
On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The bill would require the Department of Environmental Conservation and Public Service…
Bacteria in stools could be an unexpected weapon in the fight against cancer LEWIS HOUGHTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY For people not responding to a type of cancer treatment, a faecal transplant from someone who had success with the drug could boost their odds. Altering the gut microbiome has knock-on effects on the immune system, which seemed…
We’ve all opened our mailboxes to discover an unsolicited credit card offer (or three) inside. Although there must be people out there who take advantage of these offers, most of us simply throw the unopened envelopes in the trash. Yet simply tossing these pieces of snail mail can leave you and your finances vulnerable. Here’s…
