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Over dinner at a gaming convention around 2010, board game designer James Ernest turned to his friend Eric Harshbarger and asked a question: Could you design a set of dice so that each player in a group — whether two people or any number — could grab one, roll and have a perfectly equal shot […]

Humanoid robots in Beijing have beaten a number of men’s athletics world records at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, claiming high-water marks in the 100-meter sprint, the 400 m, 1,500 m and high jump. While these performances aren’t official replacements for the human records, as the robots competed under robot-specific categories and conditions, they

The Romans are well known for their aqueducts, which brought water to their cities and settlements. These aqueducts sometimes ran for very long distances. For instance, the aqueduct of Valens, which brought water to the city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), was 250 miles (400 kilometers) long, according to a statement from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes during launch pad test at Cape Canaveral – YouTube Watch On When Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket suddenly blew apart on a Florida launchpad earlier this year, it sent sound waves racing more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) across the U.S., new data reveals. While imperceptible to human ears,

People who are the exact same chronological age can undergo very different molecular changes as they grow older, a new study finds. “Molecular aging is dynamic and unique to each person,” said study co-author Julia El-Sayed Moustafa, a computational genomics researcher at King’s College London. Even if you and your friend were born the same

Mathematicians are witnessing a profound shift in their field. AI systems are now producing proofs, spotting connections between distant fields, and, in a few cases, solving problems that had stumped mathematicians for decades. The pace of progress over the past several months has raised challenging questions: What can AI systems actually do? And what happens

But the relief when I admitted to somebody that I didn’t know something was palpable. It was amazing. I came clean, and then we had a great conversation, and I actually learned something. It made me make connections, both with humans, but also in my internal wiring. It helped me learn. What’s the flip side

China’s solar power capacity has overtaken coal for the first time, marking a major milestone in the country’s rapid expansion of renewable energy. China had about 1,288 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar capacity at the end of July, compared with 1,285 GW of coal-fired capacity, according to figures from the country’s energy administration reported by

“We like to think of it as a baseball hitter that strikes out a lot, but when they do hit, it’s a home run,” said Douglas Soltis, a plant evolutionary geneticist at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “Polyploidy is the most important process on the planet that hardly anybody knows anything about.” Advances in