In a sealed lab, a string of code has become something stranger and more unsettling than software. Using artificial intelligence, researchers have written the genetic instructions for a virus that has ...

Like many people who live in a house, mine is filled with far too many storage bins of various shapes and sizes. The ...

If you’ve ever sat in the dark at 3 AM, clutching a mouse and staring at a pixels-wide gap in a smoke on Overpass, you know ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...

An ambitious data-center project in Utah is going to need about one-quarter of the power the entire state currently uses. David Gray, co-chief executive for the project’s developer, knows he can’t get ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Viterbi-Like successive cancellation (VL-SC) decoding algorithm for polar codes. The algorithm employs the bit log-likelihood-ratio as the “penalty value” within ...

On February 2nd, 2025, computer scientist and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy made a flippant tweet that launched a new phrase into the internet’s collective consciousness. He posted that he’d ...

Harness the energy of the cosmos! Learn how UC Davis engineers are using a modified Stirling engine and radiative cooling to generate passive, low-power electricity from the clear night sky.

A new study is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues. In Morse code, a short duration flash or “dot” denotes a letter “E” and a long duration ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...