Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a ...

Raphael Gomes makes a fancy lemon dessert using only three ingredients in a minimal recipe challenge. Anderson Cooper signs off final 60 Minutes with plea for show Louisiana voters reject all 5 ...

A photo of the Norfolk Southern geometry train that passed through the Old Fort Loops in early April 2026 to test the tracks before they are put back into use. A key section of freight railway has ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular motors organize the three-dimensional structure of the genome. Using ...

An impossible object is something that looks realistic when drawn but can’t exist in real life. Dutch artist M. C. Escher is famous for depicting, for instance, staircases and waterfalls that are ...

In a new Nature Physics publication, University of Amsterdam researchers introduce human-made materials that spring to life. These 'metamaterials' don't just learn to change shape, but can ...

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...

I used my fancy things on a decidedly un-fancy day. But I finally used them—and that's the whole point. For two years, every time I opened my closet, I felt it there—an ominous presence lurking in the ...

Building self-improving AI skills in Claude Code involves using an autonomous iterative loop to refine performance over time. Simon Scrapes introduces this concept through the lens of Andrej ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to ...