A common houseplant hides a pattern that may reveal how some leaf veins form. “This is a beautiful new extension of the principle that veins are optimizing across so many functions and have so much to ...

Daachorse (pronounced "dark horse") is a crate for fast multiple pattern matching using the Aho-Corasick algorithm, running in linear time over the length of the input text. This crate uses the ...

The National Science Foundation has begun dismantling a major ocean monitoring network more than a decade earlier than planned. Some scientists say it will be a “tragic” loss of crucial information ...

A surface mooring deployed by the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Credit: Sheri N. White © WHOI, Image from work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Summary: Researchers have bridged the gap between biology and silicon by creating a 3D programmable device that merges living brain cells with advanced electronics. Unlike previous “brain-on-a-chip” ...

Q. I get a detailed revenue transaction export from the client, and then I get it again, revised, usually after I’ve already filtered, sorted, and documented my selections. I’m tired of reapplying ...

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge. OpenAI has fired an employee following ...

At the Bangalore International Centre, Kala Hubba presented a cluster of works that included Janhavi Khemka’s Letter to My Mother, in which animated patterns inspired by lip-reading explored intimacy ...

Mosaics can enchant humans with gestalt beauty, but for many other creatures, their worth transcends aesthetics. Repeating patterns of tilelike motifs adorn insect eyes, shark mouths, sunflower heads ...

The questions flood in from every corner of the human psyche. “What are permanent hair removal solutions?” “Can you help me analyze this text conversation between me and my boyfriend?” “Tell me all ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...