The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Film in the 20th century conjures up the glamor of the big screen, as well as the intimacy of family snapshots. According to film historian Alice Lovejoy, celluloid and its successors should also ...

Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over a ...

Our close relationship with bees dates back thousands of years and for good reason. These little miracle workers are a vital part of the environment and the food chain. Today the humble honey bee ...

If you’ve never run before – or are going through a running hiatus – and are keen to put one foot in front of the other, then there’s no better time to get going than now. That said, trying something ...