Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries

State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living ...

Refik Anadol Opens World's First AI Art Museum in LA

Part museum, part laboratory, Dataland explores AI, nature and human perception through immersive installations.
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I put my computer’s internet traffic on a map, and I didn’t expect what I found

I expected neat lines pointing to websites, but TapMap showed me the infrastructure my laptop was really talking to ...
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Simulation Hypothesis: Lessons From the Fruit Fly Brain Map

If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

Satellite observations detect 'urban pulse' of six global cities

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - While a city is not a living organism, it behaves very much like one. Its metabolic processes may be manifested in growth spurts, metamorphosis over time ...

50-megapixel Earth models capture storms in unprecedented detail—but four consistent blind spots remain

Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 10,000 pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs. You ...

I live next to a major airport, and vibe-coded a plane tracker that turns my ceiling into a live flight map

A software engineer explains how he set up a one-of-a-kind flight tracker in his home in under two hours via vibe coding.

Switzerland map reveals ground light and shade in 10-meter detail

Researchers have calculated light levels at the ground surface across Switzerland to within 10 meters, in both open and ...