Scientists Discover Vast, Ancient Freshwater Reservoir Hidden Beneath the Great Salt Lake - Utah geoscientists begin characterizing newly discovered mountain-sourced groundwater that extends thousands of feet beneath the playa. New research from University of Utah geoscientists suggests that a large, pressurized body of freshwater may be hidden beneath the Great Salt Lake playa. The water is...
Landmark Study Begins on a Mysterious Roman Sanctuary in Frankfurt - An international research team has secured more than €1 million to investigate a recently uncovered Roman cult district. Roman-period archaeology in Hesse has reached a new stage of progress. The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) have together awarded more...
Whipping Up A Quick Adapter To Hack The Xbox 360 - [Androxilogin] had a problem. An Xbox 360 Slim had shown up in the post, but failed to give much more than a beep when turned on. Disassembly revealed some missing …read more
The Biggest Dinosaurs Left Their Babies to Be Eaten - Baby sauropods were the fast food of the Late Jurassic, feeding multiple predators and propping up the entire ecosystem. Their vulnerability may even explain why later giants like T. rex evolved to become far deadlier hunters. A new study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher suggests that...
Ask Hackaday: How Do You Digitize Your Documents? - Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of devices that I’ll eventually …read more
Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene - Thomas Edison is well known for his inventions (even if you don’t agree he invented all of them). However, he also occasionally invented things he didn’t understand, so they had …read more
Writing an Optimizing Tensor Compiler from Scratch - Not everyone will write their own optimizing compiler from scratch, but those who do sometimes roll into it during the course of ever-growing project scope creep. People like [Michael Moroz], …read more
Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides - Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that …read more
Scientists Replicate Real Blood Vessels To Unlock New Treatments for Vascular Disease - Researchers have developed a new platform that can replicate different types of blood vessel structures. Blood vessels are less like straight pipes and more like a crowded city road map, with turns, forks, and sudden choke points that can change how traffic moves. For a long time, many lab built vessel...
Letting AI Talk to Itself Made It Much Smarter - Allowing AI to talk to itself helps it learn faster and adapt more easily. This inner speech, combined with working memory, lets AI generalize skills using far less data. Talking to yourself often feels like a uniquely human habit. Inner dialogue helps people sort through ideas, make choices, and process...
Need a Curved Plastic Mesh? Print Flat, Curve Later - Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s considerably harder to 3D print, but [Uncle Jessy]’s …read more
Flavanols Break the Rules of Nutrition: Scientists Uncover the Surprising Way They Boost the Brain - The health benefits of dietary flavanols appear to come from their ability to trigger responses in the brain and the body’s stress systems. That slightly dry, tightening feeling some foods leave in the mouth is known as astringency, and it comes from naturally occurring plant compounds called polyphenols....
Companion MIDI Pedal Helps Roland Groovebox Along - The Roland SP-404 Mk2 is a popular groovebox that can deliver a great beat if you know how to use it. If you’re seeking greater control than is available out …read more
Scientists Found an Ancient Human Relative Where None Was Expected - A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives. A newly published study in Nature reports the first known Paranthropus fossil ever found in Ethiopia’s Afar region. The research was led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor...
