Forget Python Or Java: What You’re Speaking Is Code

Scripting languages like Python and JavaScript quickly gained popularity and pushed further toward human readability. They ...
MIT Technology Review

How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.
Carnegie Mellon University

In President’s Lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning CMU Historian Explains How She Uncovered Voices From the Past

Black, professor in the Department of History and director of the Humanities Center at CMU’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in history, joined ...
Nature

Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...
Harvard Medical School

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
The Christian Science Monitor

On a question of morality, the US and Canada are oceans apart. Why?

Researchers asked people from different countries to rank the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens. The results could ...
Dark Seas Official on MSN

The tiny allied warship that fought from the Red Sea to Java and refused to run

HMAS Yarra was a small Grimsby class sloop built for escort duties, but her war became far larger than anyone expected. She ...

The five San Diego concerts that should top your list this week

This week’s picks include Miranda Lambert at Boots In The Park, Sierra Hull at Belly Up, Puerto Rico’s Chuwi at HOB, Gypseas ...
Asia News Network

Tempeh’s journey, from Javanese kitchens to UNESCO heritage desk

Long a staple from street stalls to presidential plates, Indonesia’s fermented soybean cake is now backed by science and cultural history as it seeks UNESCO recognition and wider inclusion on global ...

The Biggest Volcanic Event in Earth’s History Transformed an Entire Oceanic Plate

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...
Scary Mysteries on MSN

This ancient Indonesian site may be humanity’s greatest secret

At first glance, Gunung Padang looked like a strange terraced hill in West Java. But deeper investigation suggested something much more extreme: a massive man-made structure with multiple buried ...
Nation

Why do some people eat soil? The history of geophagy

Among the Luo people in Kenya, women who practice geophagy during pregnancy prefer eating red clays due to the links between ...