Forests have been benefiting humanity since long before the health benefits of forest bathing were discovered. They are major ...

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Recipe for Disaster is Slate’s column about what recipes get wrong—and how to fix them. If you’ve noticed a recipe annoyance, absurdity, or outright lie, file your complaint here and we will ...

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio signals from space. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes For lovers of ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

You can find out how leafy your neighborhood is compared with others with a new online tool. The state Department of Natural Resources and American Forests, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers might have some explaining to do. According to evidence obtained by Pablo Torre, which he presented in the latest episode of his Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, Leonard ...

Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ...

Let's say you're reading a story, or playing a game of chess. You may not have noticed, but each step of the way, your mind kept track of how the situation (or "state of the world") was changing. You ...

Joshua has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. He's currently playing just about any and every new AAA story-based game. In his free time, he enjoys buying, building, painting, ...

Is an artificial intelligence revolution about to transform mathematics? Some prominent mathematicians think so, thanks to automated tools that can help write proofs suddenly showing impressive leaps ...