The violent attack that turned a man into a maths genius

Futon salesman Jason Padgett cared little about anything beyond partying and chasing girls, then one fateful…

Yes, Stephen Hawking Lied To Us All About How Black Holes Decay

Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking presents program in 2012. His analogy about black holes decaying…

Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America…

First precise edits to mitochondrial DNA achieved with weird enzyme

Feat enables researchers to study — and perhaps treat — deadly diseases. Read more…

4 mysterious objects spotted in deep space are unlike anything ever seen

Four faint objects at radio wavelengths are highly circular and brighter along their edges. Dubbed odd…

Astronomy’s Most Perfect Ring Galaxy, Hoag’s Object, Is Still A Mystery After 70 Years

We still don’t know how it came to be this way. Read more at Forbes…

350 elephants drop dead in Botswana, some walking in circles before doing face-plants

No one knows why. Read more at livescience.com…

Astronauts bound for Mars should swing by Venus first, scientists say

It could be cheaper, faster and two planets for the cost of one. Read more at…

Yes, There Really Could Be Life In The Cloud Tops Of Venus

Here’s how the closest place to “hell” in our Solar System might actually be home to…

Software updates bring extra torque to Bosch ebike motors

One of the occasional joys of electric vehicle ownership is that a factory software update can…

MySQL drops master-slave and blacklist-whitelist terminology | ZDNet

Engineering teams update internal terminologies all over the tech world. Latest examples include Twitter, JP Morgan,…

Mysterious Emergence of Pink Ice in The Alps Could Have Dire Consequences

Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused…

Rocket Lab launch fails during rocket’s second stage burn, causing a loss of vehicle and payloads – TechCrunch

Rocket Lab’s ‘Pic or it didn’t happen’ launch on Saturday ended in failure, with a total…

The world’s first fully painted film

The work of Van Gogh is brought to life in a beautiful new trailer for Loving…

Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention (Paper Explained)

#ai #attention #transformer #deeplearning Transformers are famous for two things: Their superior performance and their insane…

When Apple moves Mac to Arm, is it time for Mac users to move to Windows? | ZDNet

It seems like an obvious question since new machines will have to be purchased. But the…

Mars crater key to human colonisation in space captured in never-before-seen video – WATCH

FOOTAGE of an icy Martian canyon – understood to be a likely source of water for…

Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations

If you studied algebra in high school (or you’re learning it right now), there’s a good…

BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models (Paper Explained)

Proteins are the workhorses of almost all cellular functions and a core component of life. But…

Hubble just snapped one of its greatest images ever

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2775 that sits…