The World Science Fiction Society has selected this year’s winners for their prestigious Hugo award.
The best novel award went to Network Effect, the fifth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, which also won this year’s Hugo award f…
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails (as well as the co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, makers of the email software HEY). But he says Wednesday’s release of version 7.0 is the version he’s been longing for, “The one where all the card…
Variety argues that young men — the key audience for comic book and science-fiction films “have been fueling attendance for pandemic-era hits…”
But even with that, this weekend Spider-Man: No Way Home “crushed box office expectations, generati…
UPI reports:
Melting glaciers may produce thousands of miles of new Pacific salmon habitat, a study published Tuesday by Nature Communications found.
As glaciers in the mountains of western North America melt, or retreat, they could produce around 4…
“A growing body of preliminary research suggests the COVID vaccines used in most of the world offer almost no defense against becoming infected by the highly contagious omicron variant,” reports the New York Times. (Emphasis added, because they stress …
Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes Science magazine:
In his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, American biochemist Christian Anfinsen laid out a vision: One day it would be possible, he said, to predict the 3D structure of any protein merely from it…
theodp writes: Out of the box, does your programming language support Chemical Formulas & Chemical Reactions? Making Videos from Images & Videos? Integrals? Real Numbers? Graph Trees? Leap Seconds? Bio Sequences? Flight Data? Vector Displacemen…
“Globally, methane is responsible for 30% of global warming. Of that, livestock, such as cattle, account for about one-third of all methane emissions,” reports CBS News.
But researchers discovered that feeding seaweed to cattle would reduce greenhous…
The mosquitofish threatens native fish populations in Australia — including two of the most criticially endangered, reports the New York Times. And in various parts of the world, “For decades scientists have been trying to figure out how to contr…
The Wikimedia Foundation banned seven high-level users in September and temporarily demoted a dozen others for abuses “unprecedented in scope and nature.” Slashdot reader harrymcc explains:
The foundation accused these volunteers of biasing it in favo…
