Surrey researchers have shown how an ultra-black coating could reduce satellite brightness, helping protect astronomical observations and the night sky

15 questions. Two axes. Which of 30 AI archetypes are you?

Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway you run yourself. One endpoint for 40+ providers, with virtual keys, budgets, and usage tracking. - mozilla-ai/otari

Tattoo the earth, one pixel at a time.

A language and an embedded JIT compiler. Contribute to morganstanley/hobbes development by creating an account on GitHub.

Watch a VACUUM cycle with pageinspect, pg_freespace, and pg_visibility: how a dead tuple loses its storage, then its index entry, then its slot, and how the freed space gets reused.

ModelMap — an AI model

Eternal Software Initiative. Contribute to adriancable/eternal development by creating an account on GitHub.

People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. What do we think we’re racing toward when we worry we’ll run o

A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up.

When reminders are due, cute desktop pets appear to keep you company. Never forget important things again!

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Learn why traditional GIS formats break at scale, how vector tiles solve the memory and rendering bottleneck, and what the shift from flat files to tiled architectures means for web-based geospatial data.

What novelists can teach neuroscientists about consciousness.

Let coding agents see your browser. Contribute to puffinsoft/peek-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

Saturn's moon Titan is a unique environment in the solar system. It is the only moon with an atmosphere, composed primarily of the gases N2 and CH4. It is also the only world to have abundant surface hydrocarbons CxHy, which are found as both liquids (seas, lakes) and solids (dunes). Meanwhile, oxygen is also readily accessible in the form of crustal water. This combination of abundant reduced carbon, along with available nitrogen and oxygen makes Titan an enticing world rich in resources that can be readily used to make food, fuel, building materials and more - potentially mission-enabling for long-duration voyages or habitats in the outer solar system. At the same time Titan, as an icy moon, is likely to be depleted at the surface in heavier elements including metals, which must therefore be found and brought from elsewhere. In this article we describe both the available resources on Titan, and also their potential uses. We compare and contrast the resource availability and potential in-situ utilization (ISRU) with other destinations suggested for human habitation such as the Moon and Mars. We conclude by discussing what future work will be important to further characterize Titan's resources, and to develop technologies for their utilization.

An independent guide to the food, neighborhoods, and culture of St. Louis.

An interactive CLI research assistant that scrapes, sanitizes, and synthesizes web content locally or via Gemini/OpenAI/Claude, with Discord/Telegram alerts & built-in automation. - techno-neig...