The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Chinese researchers have developed the world’s smallest CT scanner, a portable device designed to produce images of tiny fossils and archaeological relics. Built by the Shandong province-based Rayim, ...

The Vesuvius Challenge is an ongoing project that combines “digital unwrapping” with crowdsourced machine learning to decipher the so-called Herculaneum scrolls, badly charred 2,000-year-old papyri ...

Researchers developed ENCI, a portable x-ray device that digitally opened sealed clay envelopes from ancient Assyria and Babylon without damaging 4,000-year-old artifacts inside. A letter from wife ...

Investigators have found around 1,200 to 1,500 allegedly fake Kurash sports certificates issued as part of a suspected racket, with some allegedly used to secure government jobs under the five per ...

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A scan area only 20 microns wide can expose details that decide whether a surface performs flawlessly or fails. This is the strange way scientists “feel” matter instead of simply looking at it. Police ...

Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they ...

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Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the colossal volcanic activity that created it more than 100 million years ago.

Neko Health just raised $700 million and plans to open its first clinic in New York this year. Neko Health just raised $700 million and plans to open its first clinic in New York this year. is a ...

A new class of malicious software is quietly slipping past the security tools meant to protect popular AI coding assistants. Researchers have found that malware hidden inside “agent skills,” small add ...