In 2002, Raskin, along with his son Aza and the rest of the development team, built a software implementation of his ...

A Zhejiang University-based research team has created glass that clears away dust through electric bursts, reported Interesting Engineering. These bursts eliminate 98% of surface particles, with no ...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to create potential new drugs for so-called superbugs – stubborn bacterial infections that can evade existing treatments. AI has reshaped drug ...

The US health secretary's cancellation of nearly $500 million-worth of funding for multiple mRNA vaccine projects has been described as a dangerous decision for public health. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make up about 80% of the universe's mass and needed to explain a variety of ...

The leopard in this short video clip looks very at ease both climbing up a tree trunk and relaxing in the branches. The ease with which it scales the vertical trunk is astonishing. But why does such a ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the ...

As Israeli missiles continue to strike Iran, residents across Tehran and other major cities are taking shelter in basements, metro stations, and underground garages. Amid the ongoing uncertainty and ...