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The Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces creates a protective carbonized layer in bioarchitecture.

Information from sensors is transmitted using neural-style activity spikes.

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned.

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions.

Remembering Windows 10's rollout can help diagnose what ails Windows 11.

Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM.

From Apple gifting a gold statue to the US taking a stake in Intel.

Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes

Most things Privateer did have been done better, but it's still a classic.

A mix of expected sequels and out-of-nowhere indie gems made 2025 a joy.

"You're Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year." Acting out may shatter "the magic."

The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.

Netflix and Apple TV dominate this year's list with thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, and murder.

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

The launch laid "an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery."

It's purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before Avatar: Fire and Ash.

US drone makers are happy-US drone hobbyists, not so much.

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."

A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.

Splay can be a monitor and takes a lot of the stress out of projectors, too.

"It has been a great privilege to lead ULA through its transformation and to bring Vulcan into service."

He had worked on Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, and Battlefield.

"This particular anomaly deserves to be right up front and center for quite some time."

Spotify is reportedly investigating how much music Anna's Archive scraped.

Projects with hardware in the water stopped due to Department of Defense fears.

"After years of war, no one could stand between my men and home. Not even me."

Apple can't force app makers to get consent twice to track user data, Italian regulator says.

Moon-bound astronauts rehearse their launch-day activities with a repurposed ride.

The new regulation arrives on New Year's Day.

Google says the lawsuit is its last resort.

Ants with lots of workers tend to put less energy into making them armored.

Inin suggests new low-cost options allowed it to "recalculate production" for full cartridge.

LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away.

BIOS checks will only affect a limited subset of Valorant players for now.

You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox's sub-$35,000 starting price.

Chris Wright declared an energy emergency" in the Pacific Northwest.

The grocery app will also stop hiding refund options and obscuring delivery costs.

Strava's most viral feature is suddenly locked away.

How do four modern LLMs do at re-creating a simple Windows gaming classic?

"Russia, meanwhile, will be left to carry on the legacy of the ISS, with all its problems."

South Korean rocket startup Innospace is poised to debut a new nano-launcher.

Closing TikTok deal avoids 2026 ban, but app may be buggy, 100% MAGA."

"We had to push the envelope a little bit here."

DiskSat's design offers "a power-to-weight ratio unmatched by traditional aluminum satellites."

They were infected by roundworm, whipworm, and microscopic protozoans called Giardia duodenalis.

Also, the Trump administration wants to put some nuclear power reactors there, too.

Google loves AI content, except when it doesn't.

Subscribers will start seeing ads when selecting a user next year.