I grew up just outside of Toronto and went to university in Montreal, so needless to say, I know cold. I’m no stranger to below-zero temperatures, snow up to my shins, and slippery strolls to and from ...

Mojang has dropped some huge news for Minecraft Java players - especially those that love to mod. While the modding scene is already thriving in Minecraft, it's not as accessible as you'd expect for ...

Is a mysterious visitor from the depths of space trying to tell us something? According to a controversial theory, the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is not just a silent traveller but a ...

Sequencing has filled global archives with vast DNA and RNA reads, but finding signals in that noise has remained out of reach. ETH Zurich’s MetaGraph turns raw sequences into a compressed, full-text ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Abstract: We propose a family of Fibonacci-style codes, combining the advantages of higher-order Fibonacci numeration systems and the flexibility of binary mixed-digit codes. We establish the ...

Searching your computer for files shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. But sometimes it does. You vaguely remember saving a file, but not what it was called. Or you’re trying to find that ...

The big picture: Java stands as one of the enduring pillars of the software world. The programming language was released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, and so far has weathered the shifting ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...