11+ mon, 2+ day ago   (976+ words) In packed arenas and viral livestreams, a new breed of esports athletes battles not with controllers but with spreadsheets. At first, it sounds like satire. Twelve contestants jog through a glowing “hype tunnel” in Las Vegas, cheered on by fans…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (684+ words) Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Mathematics Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters honored the ultimate…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1261+ words) Home → Features → Pieces The list below is a mix of the pieces we loved most and the ones you couldn’t stop reading. Spinal cord injuries have traditionally belonged to the bleak category of “irreversible” and permanent facts of life. Once…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (512+ words) New research turns neural signals into movies and hints at how brains edit sight. Neuroscientists have successfully reconstructed moving images directly from the brain activity of mice, marking a major shift from broad brain scans to tracking thousands of individual…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (869+ words) A by-product of modern Wi-Fi could soon be used to identify you. Researchers in Germany have warned that ordinary Wi-Fi could become a surprisingly powerful surveillance tool. A team at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology showed that Wi-Fi signals can reveal…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1784+ words) Home → Features → Pieces Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights. Experiments typically yield averages, not clear-cut figures. To a physicist, it can sometimes feel less like…...