The Search for Alien Artifacts Is Coming Into Focus

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

Traces of Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA May Have Been Discovered on a Red Chalk Drawing Called Holy Child

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and from letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...
The New York Times

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems. Self-service kiosks at the ...
The Guardian

‘We can tell farmers the problems’: experts say seismic waves can check soil health and boost yields

‘Soilsmology’ aims to map world’s soils and help avert famine, says not-for-profit co-founded by George Monbiot George Monbiot: Over a pint in Oxford, we may well have stumbled upon the holy grail of ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Nearly eight years later, ranked choice voting still causing confusion among electorate

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Wearing a superhero costume, actor and filmmaker DezBaa’ emerged from the voting booth Friday afternoon after ...
Scientific American

How Logical Are You? Test Your Skills With These Problems from the New International Logic Olympiad

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...
Reason

The Dreadful Policies Halting Archeological Discoveries

Thanks to the creative application of new technologies, the 2020s are quietly shaping up to be a golden age of archaeology. Analysis of ancient DNA has resolved long-debated questions about human ...
Los Angeles Times

Court-ordered audit finds major flaws in L.A.’s homeless services

Homeless services provided by the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority are disjointed and lack adequate data systems and financial controls to monitor contracts for ...
Bleeping Computer

Phishing attack hides JavaScript using invisible Unicode trick

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action ...
Wall Street Journal

A Private Club’s Very Public Problems

Soho House started its life in London in 1995 as a private members club for the artsy elite. Eight years later, it brought its exclusive formula of gathering designers, musicians and writers in ...