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EPA reconsidering biofuel targets after production goals are missed

This week, two anonymous sources told Reuters that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering revising biofuel quotas downward after years of underperformance...

The Journal of Controversial Ideas—academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless

Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author in 1967, arguing that once a text is produced, it is an independent entity to...

Medieval dental plaque sheds light on how our microbiomes have changed

The communities of bacteria that live in our mouths have changed drastically since the Middle Ages, according to a new study of remains...

New wearable tech lets users listen to live music through their skin

Back in September, 200 music fans gathered at the Bunkhouse Saloon in downtown Las Vegas for a private live concert with a unique...

First encounter: COMPUTE! magazine and its glorious, tedious type-in code

Update: It's the last day of Thanksgiving weekend in the US, and our staff is enjoying one final bit of rest before taking...

An intermediary between qubits provides basis for control and scaling

Quantum computers are not like classical computers. I don't mean that in the sense that quantum computers perform calculations in a different manner,...

Challenge to EPA’s fuel economy rollback can move ahead, court says

Earlier this week, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that it wouldn't immediately dismiss a lawsuit against the...

DNA data from Africans reveals sequences that we’d missed

The human genome sequence, first published in 2001, has some important information missing. The latest version of it, called GRCh38, has a monstrous...

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