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    | Mapping Ignorance
    Picture this: Your home’s walls don’t just keep out the rain—they soak up warmth from the sun during the day, slowly release it to keep you cosy at night, and even convert some of that heat into a trickle of electricity to power your lights or charge your phone. This isn’t science fiction; it’s the [...]
    | Mapping Ignorance
    Author: Rohini Subrahmanyam is a PhD biologist turned science journalist. Insects that tuck away wings; a protist with an accordion-like neck — studying these clever creases may inspire foldable structures for drones As the microscopic, tear-shaped Lacrymaria olor  swims around hunting for food, it [...]
    | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    [Revised entry by Jan Faye on October 28, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Sometimes also called retro-causation. A common feature of our world seems to be that in all cases of causation, the cause and the effect are placed in time so that the cause precedes its effect temporally. Our no [...]
    | Mapping Ignorance
    Non-destructive testing allows engineers to evaluate the integrity of structures such as pipelines, tanks, bridges, and machinery without dismantling them. Conventional approaches rely on loudspeakers, lasers, or electric sparks. While effective, these systems can be difficult or dangerous to use in [...]
    | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    [New Entry by Heine Hansen and Boaz Faraday Schuman on October 28, 2025.] Alberic of Paris, also known as Alberic de Monte, was, according to his contemporaries, one of the most prominent philosophers in Paris in the twelfth century, a period in which the Latin-speaking West saw a marked revitaliza [...]
    | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    [Revised entry by Elizabeth Brake and Joseph Millum on October 27, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] The ethics of parenthood and procreation apply not only to daily acts of decision-making by parents and prospective procreators, but also to law, public policy, and medicine. Two recent so [...]
    | Mapping Ignorance
    Author: Paul C. Sereno, Professor of Paleontology, University of Chicago A mummy of a juvenile duck-billed dinosaur, Edmontosaurus annectens, preserved as a dried carcass. Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab Dinosaur “mummies” couldn’t have been further from my mind as I trudged up a grassy knoll on the Zerbst [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    Unio: Classification, Habitat, Morphology, Ecology, and Identification Unio is a genus of medium-sized, freshwater mussels belonging to the family Unionidae, commonly known as river mussels. These bivalve mollusks are widely distributed across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with some species i [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    Mytilus: Classification, Habitat, Anatomy, Ecology, and Identification The genus Mytilus encompasses medium to large saltwater mussels, renowned bivalve mollusks of the family Mytilidae and key ecological engineers of temperate marine coasts. These mussels are notable for forming dense beds along ro [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    Limax: Classification, Habitat, Anatomy, Ecology, and Identification Limax is a genus of large, air-breathing terrestrial slugs in the family Limacidae, best known for its most prominent species, Limax maximus, commonly called the leopard slug or great grey slug. Unlike most land mollusks, Limax spe [...]
    | Mapping Ignorance
      If you’ve ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole—clicking link after link until you’re far from where you started—you’ve explored a network, much like physicists map connections in systems like the internet or ecosystems. Each Wikipedia article is a dot, each hyperlink a line connecting ideas. T [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    Helix: Classification, Habitat, Anatomy, Ecology, and Identification The genus Helix comprises large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic region. Members of this genus are best known for their relatively large, globular to conical shells and their considerable ecological and [...]
    | Zoologyverse
    Planorbis: Classification, Ecology, Identification, and Importance Planorbis is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails in the family Planorbidae, commonly called ram’s horn snails for their flat, disk-like shells that coil in a single plane. Species in this genus are hallmark residents of ponds, [...]
    | explore.org
    We received incredible submissions for this year’s 2025 Fan Art Contest, and it was nearly impossible to choose just a few to feature. Below are some standout pieces selected by Explore staff that best reflect the contest’s three categories: Wildlife, Public Lands/Water, and Habitat. You can still v [...]
    | explore.org
    We’re thrilled to announce the top 20 winners of the 2025 Fat Bear Campaign Poster Contest! This year brought in more submissions than ever before, and the creativity, humor, and artistry of every entry blew us away. Thank you to everyone who participated and shared their vision for celebrating the [...]
    | Project Euler
    Members have always had the option of making their accounts private, which means they will not appear in any public ranked tables, including the fastest solver tables. However, we have now provided an option which allows members to maintain public status, but opt out of individual fastest solver tab [...]
    | Project Euler
    The guide to formatting posts has always asked members to use single dollar for inline TeX content and double dollar for block level, but some alternatives were previously supported. For example, it was possible to use \[ and \] delimiters for block level and you were able to add TeX to the page dir [...]
    | Project Euler
    Over the years the BBCode module used in the problem threads has continued to be modified and have additional tags added. So, to ensure a more streamlined performance, the entire module has been rewritten. Every attempt has been made to support both recent and legacy posts and I have tried my best t [...]
    | Information is Beautiful
    Still a chance to join us for a dazzlingly different night out in London on Monday 30th June with Information is Beautiful founder, David McCandless. Using the data, graphics and stories at the heart of IIB, David will take audiences on a data-driven tour of the universe, sharing the funniest, most [...]
    | Information is Beautiful
    We’re thrilled to unveil the winners of this year’s Information is Beautiful Awards. Chosen by a panel of expert judges from nearly 1,000 entries, these visualisations and infographic works stand out for their mastery of beauty, storytelling, impact and innovation. Many thanks to the Data Visualizat [...]
    | Project Euler
    The last problem of this academic year will be published on Saturday Aug 02 at 16:00 (UTC). The first problem of the new academic year will be published on Saturday August 30 at 19:00 (UTC).(Friday 06 June 2025: Summer Break)
    | explore.org
    By Mike Fitz Mother bears experience extraordinary energetic demands to feed their ravenous cubs. Bear families navigate a gauntlet of threats to remain safe. Cubs experience a short apprenticeship with their mothers, and they must absorb her lessons if they are to survive life as independent bears. [...]
    | explore.org
    Earth Day is an annual celebration that drives environmental awareness and action. How can we support the planet and its incredible wildlife in our everyday lives? Join us tomorrow, April 22nd at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT for a special Earth Day livestream hosted by resident naturalist Mike Fitz and Al [...]
    | Project Euler
    New awards have been added along with a number of visual tweaks to sections of the Progress pages to support them. Some of them should be obvious, but others might appear a little mysterious. Three Strikes!: Get the diagonals in any three grids Perfect Game: Get the diagonals in all possible grids [...]
    | Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
    In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path around our planet, but [...]
    | explore.org
    Introducing the top-voted posters of 2024! Vote for 128 Grazer! Round and fluff, can’t get enough!! by Top Bear Fan 2. Team Grazer!! by Tara Larson 3. Big Belly, Big Fun! Bead’s the cub for everyone!! by Nick Bear 4. Vote 32 Chunk for FBW, by Erica Measday 5. The Brother Bear want you to
    | Words and Buttons Online 
    All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a competitive advantage over C++ [...]
    | Words and Buttons Online 
    Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model functions like logarithm [...]
    | Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
    The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling. In this article we’ll investigate what makes [...]
    | Distill
    Weights in the final layer of common visual models appear as horizontal bands. We investigate how and why.
    | Euro Bird Portal
    Today is World Migratory Bird Day 2019! A perfect moment to to have a look at the migration patterns of 105 different bird species or follow Swallows, Cuckoos or your favourite bird as they undertake their amazing journeys through Europe at the LIVE EBP viewer.  This year, the emphasis for World Mig [...]
    | Euro Bird Portal
    Today, in the framework of BirdNumbers2019, EURING and EBP have signed an agreement to promote co-operation in areas of common interest. EURING co-ordinates bird ringing throughout Europe in order to study bird migration, movements and population dynamics at a European scale. Ringing and recovery da [...]
    | Animated Engines
    Animated Engines has a redesigned layout, which, I hope will make it easier than ever to find what you're looking for. I've also added an RSS feed along with Facebook and Twitter accounts, to make it easier to keep up with future developments. Stay tuned; new engines are coming soon!
    | Animated Engines
    For years, visitors have requested the ability to adjustthe animation speed, pause the motion, and examine the framesindividually. The new control panel enables you to do just that.
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