Players of “Pokémon Go” — an augmented reality (AR) mobile game released in 2016 that took the world by storm — have been unwittingly training an artificial intelligence (AI) model to map the planet at street level. Niantic, the company […]
We have started work to replace the repository windows on the second, third and fourth floors of the 1970s part of The National Archives’ building. The work is due to be completed in early 2025 and will ensure we continue
How do scientists know which insects can see color? Illustration by Roche How do scientists know which insects can see color? John Jay Rouse | St. Cloud, Minnesota Much of what we know about which colors insects can see is based
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
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Scott Olson/Getty Images/Scott Olson/Getty Images Scott Olson/Getty Images/Scott Olson/Getty Images Airline workers — pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, baggage handlers, and more — represent a huge cross-section of the country. And for decades, they’ve used their unions to fight not just
Whenever it is the purpose of a (political) mission which has to be ascertained, it behoves one to ask three questions without delay: why was the mission sent at all; why was it sent only when it was; and why
File this under something that should have been self-evident: When it came time for the artist known as Cher to finish her memoir, she discovered she had too much material. Where to even begin? Decades before Madonna had reinventions and
The Lebanese town of Al-Nabi Chit, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, is considered a possible burial place of the prophet Seth, Adam and Eve’s lesser-known third son. The prophet’s remains are believed to be entombed in an elegant mosque with
More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate our air. “The diversity of frog sounds is hard to overstate,” says Mark Scherz, a herpetologist at the Natural
