A Mathematician Discovered a New Eight-Faced Shape. It Looks Like a Glitch in Reality

Using a set of simple integer coordinates, independent mathematician Ruslan Mizhaev has found a way to create an 8-faced ...

From spider webs to mosaics: How nanosheets of graphene oxide control the patterns left by a drying droplet

A drop of coffee on a tabletop often leaves a dark ring behind. This everyday mark is a reminder that a drying droplet is not ...
HackerNoon

Building an Urban Heat Island Detector with Python, Satellite Data, and Machine Learning

Urban heat islands are a solvable data problem: this piece shows how to combine free satellite imagery, standard ...
Game Rant

How to Shape Jump as Michael Myers in Halloween: The Game

Halloween: The Game lets you jump into the shoes of Michael Myers in both its single-player and multiplayer experiences. Whether you are trying to beat the main story and all of its challenges in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Defeat the Royal Navy During the American Revolution, a Rebel Inventor Designed a Secret Weapon: a Bomb-Carrying Submarine

A diagram of David Bushnell's Turtle submersible Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division During the American Revolution, the Turtle made history as the world’s first combat-ready submarine ...

Sea turtle struck by boat is recovering in a 3D-printed harness

Now, a team from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Georgia’s Jekyll Island has turned to 3D printing to help a seriously ...
Georgia Public Broadcasting

Georgia scientists snip fins to figure out if sea turtle males are in trouble

Sea turtle numbers are recovering in Georgia, but scientists are now concerned that warming temperatures may be feminizing ...

Look out above! Burmese pythons are starting to climb trees in Florida

Burmese pythons are using trees to bask during Florida's cooler months with the heavy adult snakes preferring cypress species and live oaks.
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Ukraine mocked Russia's bizarre turtle tanks - six weeks later Moscow is using even more of them

Russia's so-called turtle tanks initially looked like improvised battlefield curiosities: ordinary tanks covered by huge structures designed to protect them from FPV drones. Yet weeks later, Russian ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Centuries Ago, an Architect Characterized the Parthenon’s Curves as a Clever Optical Illusion. Now, a Mathematician Begs to Differ

In the first century B.C.E., Vitruvius wrote that the Acropolis’ largest temple was horizontally bowed so that it didn't seem to sag, and that explanation persisted for millennia. New research suggest ...
Earthjustice

U.S. Appeals Court Rules to Protect Imperiled Sea Turtles from Drowning in Fishing Nets

A federal appeals court has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) 2019 rule requiring some shrimp trawling vessels to use turtle excluder devices (TEDs) so that sea turtles can escape ...
Kotaku

Ball Physics Draw Puzzles

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ball Physics Draw Puzzles Ball Physics Draw Puzzles is a simple and a fun puzzle game with the goal to guide all balls into a cup just by drawing paths on ...