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But Vince Gilligan says that wasn’t what he was thinking of when he wrote Pluribus. In fact, when he first came up with the ...

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From 3dfx Voodoo to Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, we chart the GPUs and graphics cards that had the biggest impact on PC gaming.

An international research collaboration, including INRAE, has published the complete set of genes (pangenome) and agronomic ...

Robots could soon be able to autonomously complete search and rescue missions, inspections, complex maintenance operations and various other real-world tasks. To do this, however, they should be able ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

Newly discovered patches of ancient landscape have somehow managed to survive without being turned into a farm, forest or subdivision.

Cole Mills and Michelle Tashima’s backyard in North Portland’s St. Johns neighborhood looked like a marsh after heavy rains. Now, water no longer puddles on the surface. Instead, it funnels into a ...

The plastiglomerates featured in Kolster’s book originate from Kamilo Point on the Big Island, Hawaii. The ocean currents ...