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Terraform Industries is working to develop a carbon-neutral supply chain for cheap, unlimited hydrocarbons using only sunlight and air. Synthetic fuels and electrification may be the key to solving the climate change conundrum, allowing humanity to move beyond fossil fuels as early as 2040. Geoengineering solutions such as the accelerated weathering of mafic rocks to […]
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The widespread availability of electricity is a defining feature of modern civilization, with almost 90% of the world’s population having access to electricity. The journey towards pervasive electricity began with the invention of the incandescent lamp in 1879, which later led to the creation of a complete generation and distribution system by Thomas Edison. Edison’s […]
In this post, the author describes their experience of switching from SVG to Canvas, and how they wrote a new interaction handling system from scratch to simplify their existing interaction code. They discuss the problems with their previous React-based approach, and detail the goals they set for the new system, such as reducing code complexity, […]
The article explores the mysterious photophores of the Taningia danae, a deep-sea squid with massive, lemon-sized light organs at the tip of its arms. Despite being one of the largest photophores known to science, their function is still largely unknown. The article delves into the role of bioluminescence in the deep sea and proposes that […]
Microsoft has been criticised for featuring a full-page chatbot window pushing Edge, its internet browser, to users trying to download Google Chrome. When typing Chrome into the Edge search bar, many people saw a Bing chatbot window promoting “news articles about Bing features”, which took up most of the screen. This “AI response” aimed to […]
A new technique that combines mip-NeRF 360 and grid-based models such as Instant NGP has been proposed to improve the training of Neural Radiance Fields. This technique uses multisampling to approximate the average NGP feature over a conical frustum, resulting in prefiltered renderings that do not flicker or shimmer, and error rates that are 8%-77% […]
Bees are essential for human life, providing one-third of the food we eat with a global value estimated at up to $US577 billion annually. However, their fascinating abilities to perceive the world and navigate, learn, communicate and remember are not widely known. Contrary to popular belief, only about 10% of bees are social, with most […]
The Three Sisters – corn, beans, and squash – have been an important staple for Native American communities, both agriculturally and nutritionally, for centuries. By planting these three crops together, corn provides a support for beans to climb without competing with sprawling squash vines. In addition to their mutual growth benefits, a diet of corn, beans […]
Apple has unveiled its visionOS, which includes a headset displaying virtual spaces to control a user’s computer and perform tasks such as sending email and browsing the internet. VisionOS uses a handheld sensor to pick up signals from the user’s hands, which can be used to activate and control the device. Despite claiming it will […]
The Royal Navy has successfully trialled a quantum navigation system that can pinpoint a ship’s location without requiring GPS, according to Sky News. Developed by physicists from Imperial College in London, the system uses atomic properties to achieve more precise measurements of an object’s movement than conventional techniques. GPS can be jammed or suffer malfunctions, […]