Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host
Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.
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Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds
Nonprofit hospitals got $28 billion in tax breaks—which made up 44% of their net income.
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Record-breaking Super Mario Bros. speedrun approaches robotic perfection
Runner is a modern-day John Henry, just 0.35 seconds from tool-assisted speedrun mark.
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AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd
"I was positively surprised how well it worked," said one attendee.
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New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs
Adversarial policy attacks blind spots in the AI—with broader implications than games.
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Fire ant rafts form because of the Cheerios effect, study concludes
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
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The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.
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Radian announces plans to build one of the holy grails of spaceflight
"We all understand how difficult this is."
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Hackers backdoor PHP source code after breaching internal git server
Code gave code-execution powers to anyone who knew the secret password: "zerodium."
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Dr. Strangenet—or, how I stopped worrying and embraced the WFH IT apocalypse
There's no more perimeter, everybody's Wi-Fi is broken, and yet...we're still working.
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No, someone hasn’t cracked the code of the mysterious Voynich manuscript
Medieval scholar: "Sorry, folks, 'proto-Romance language' is not a thing."
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Weird water phase “ice-VII” can grow as fast as 1,000 miles per hour
Science of fiction: Exotic form of ice could freeze an alien ocean in a few hours.
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Winning in NASCAR—meticulous preparation, or just good luck?
Chaos reigns in Florida at the 2019 Daytona 500.
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“The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed.
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The Greatest Leap, Part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing
Across the cislunar blackness, we set sail for a landing that almost didn't happen.
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Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
15 years on, Winamp "still lives"—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.
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Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals
Massive study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history.
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What Slack is doing to our offices—and our minds
It started as social software for work, but Slack now has our :heart:, time, and data.
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Inside Meow Wolf, the amusement park for people who want a weirder Disneyland
A high-tech storytelling gameworld has just opened its doors in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Finding North America’s lost medieval city
Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why.
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New evidence that sperm whales form clans with diverse cultures, languages
Using underwater microphones, scientists track whales' unique cultural identities.
