My grandfather grew up in Franklin County, Va., a small farming region deep in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. As a child, he did his schoolwork by firelight and passed long days plowing ...

Babies like me. Perhaps it’s something about my slightly cauliflowered ears, which invariably end up clutched in their slobbery fists. Or maybe they just sense my Big Dad Energy, given that I’ve ...

Abstract: Automated design of metaheuristic algorithms offers an attractive avenue to reduce human effort and gain enhanced performance beyond human intuition. Current automated methods design ...

Thanks to computer numerical control (CNC) fabrication technologies, the method may also be applied to design-laminated timber gridshells. Credit: ©2025 Masaaki Miki and Toby Mitchell CC-BY-ND A new ...

In the world of design, even the best-laid plans don’t always go according to plan. Dream projects will have their delays, and ideal clients will have their indecisive moments. Part of being a great ...

ON NEWBURY STREET IN BOSTON, BOUGIE DESIGN IS TURNING FASHION INTO PLAY. KIND OF A FUN COLOR. THIS ISN’T JUST SHOPPING. IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE YOUR OWN STYLE. THIS IS GOING TO BE A CRAZY HAT.

The fungal-derived meroterpenoid pyripyropene A exhibits significant biological activities, including potent inhibition of acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) and high insecticidal efficacy ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Abstract: The sparsity-regularized linear inverse problem has been widely used in many fields, such as remote sensing imaging, image processing and analysis, seismic deconvolution, compressed sensing, ...

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...

A recent study marks the first reported instance of generative AI designing synthetic molecules that can successfully control gene expression in healthy mammalian cells. As a proof-of-concept, the ...