I got an email the other day from mathematician Bogdan Grechuk, whose book Polynomial Diophantine Equations: A Systematic Approach ( was recently released. This is to my mind a rather remarkable bo…

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Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?

Euan Ashley joins Derek to discuss the benefits of exercise and our current scientific understanding of why it helps

A team led by researchers at UW Tacoma, UW and Washington State University Puyallup has discovered a chemical that kills coho salmon in urban streams before the fish can spawn.

Frances Glessner Lee didn’t want to be known as a “rich woman who didn’t have enough to do.” In her 60s, she became a pioneer of forensic science.

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down the a...

CSAM content has risen 10x week-over-week. While we detect confirmed cases quickly, manual review is still necessary for NCMEC reports. This increase impacts our mods, who are repeatedly exposed to such content. 4/7

Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say

Not so much when trying to convert coding veterans

Citizen DJ invites the public to make music using free-to-use audio and video collections. By embedding these materials in hip hop music, listeners can discover items in the library's vast collections that they likely would never have known existed.

Children's perception of time is relatively understudied. Learning to see time through their eyes may be fundamental to a happier human experience.

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic…

An introduction to signals: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2023.

What do the integers have in common with the symmetries of a triangle? In the 19th century, mathematicians invented groups as an answer to this question.