In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a startup using AI to track pathogens, a quantum cooling breakthrough and ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That’s normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...

Battlefield 6’s launch patch reworks movement, weapon recoil, and vehicles, slowing gameplay and fixing major beta issues ...

For years, researchers have puzzled over how the ancient people of Rapa Nui did the seemingly impossible and moved their ...

A research team has confirmed via 3D modeling and field experiments that the ancient people of Rapa Nui “walked” the iconic moai statues. Credit: Carl Lipo. The towering Easter Island moai have always ...

The origin of Easter Island's iconic head statues is one of the world's greatest archaeological puzzles. Now, scientists ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought I’m writing a book about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Last week I published the first piece from it, about the differences ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

It was in the 17th century that Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini first revealed Saturn’s stunning rings, changing the ...

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San Antonio is one of the eeriest places in the U.S., and this list of urban legends and haunted locations proves it.