Science.

The Herculaneum scrolls indicated where Plato was buried — they were read «by the bionic eye»

Three years ago, a research team at the University of Pisa decided to decipher the Herculaneum Scrolls using a new…

25.04.2024

People see with different frequencies: some people can distinguish 60 flashes per second, while others can see 35 flashes per second — study

According to a new study, some people are able to see the world at a higher «frame rate» than others.…

03.04.2024

Goodbye, Lenna. Scientists were banned from using the legendary 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles

A fragment of a digitized portrait of Swedish model Lena Forsen, featured in a November 1972 Playboy spread, has been…

01.04.2024

«Many rectors want to sit in their chairs forever, like African dictators». Petro Chernyshov on education reform, investments and «Kyivstar»

«You sent me questions like I was a celebrity, only one thing was missing: "What do you think of Taylor…

21.03.2024

Breakthrough in matrix multiplication should lead to faster and more efficient AI models

Computer scientists have discovered a new way to multiply large matrices faster by eliminating a previously unknown inefficiency, leading to…

11.03.2024

«Flights of Fancy. The Biology and Technology of Flight» by Richard Dawkins: Natural and Man-Made Ways to Defy Gravity

Today we are going to review the latest book by Richard Dawkins — a well-known evolutionary biologist and popularizer of…

23.02.2024

A newly discovered black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns is swallowing another one every day. Its disk — 7 light-years in diameter

The Sun has a mass of about 330,000 times that of the Earth, but this figure is dwarfed by the…

21.02.2024