Science analyzed employment data from the Office of Personnel Management to calculate the loss of STEM PhD employees in the federal government. Over the past year, the cohort shrank by 10,109, whic ...
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow patterns. It is searchable and interactive. If you zoom in close enough, you can find our tiny pocket of data vi ...
Olympic figure skater Ilia Malinin earned the nickname "Quad God" for all his completed quadruple jumps in competition. The New York Times recorded his most difficult quadruple axel wit ...
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye are studying how work loads are shifting as companies try to integrate AI into the flow. So far it seems that AI is mostly creating a different kind of work a ...
While it's easy to go out for a run in most places, finding the nearest mountain (that still has snow on it) or speed skating track is less straightforward. So Emily Giambalvo, Dylan Moriarty ...
For Bloomberg, Shawn Donnan runs the numbers and discusses how this might affect economic growth. In the year prior to July 1, 2025, the US Census revealed this week that the population grew by onl ...
Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety is on the New York Times to explain why: there are many variables that athletes cannot control while skiing really fast down a mountain in the winter. One of my fav ...
More processing power requires more data centers, and for better or worse, they are going up across the country. Using data from a variety of sources, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory mappe ...
Researchers published a paper in Science on the growing threat of AI swarms used for chaos in existing and new online communities. For Wired, David Gilbert reports: "We are moving into a new phase ...
ASCII art is text-based art that uses printable characters instead of pixels. Alex Harri made an image-to-ASCII renderer for himself and explains the process of converting images to text. I started ...