Andrew Biggin receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our ...

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...

SQLite's built-in json extension, in addition to supporting JSON and JSON5 data stored in TEXT values, also supports a custom JSONB format stored in BLOB values. Currently it's possible to access ...

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain ...

A weather phenomenon called "The Blob" could have a major impact on Chicago's winter forecast, but what is it exactly? While it may be the title of a famed horror movie, this version of "The Blob" isn ...

Chicago-area residents aren’t strangers to tough winters, but could a phenomenon called “The Blob” make things snowier and colder than usual? “The Blob” is of course the title of a famed horror movie, ...

Twenty-three nights with temperatures below zero, and snow falling every other day for months; many Chicagoans remember the winter of 2013-2014 as a long and difficult one. And there is one reason why ...

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast. Cool water welling up from the depths is thought to be ...

There are plenty of smartphone operating systems that are mostly made from free and open source software, including de-Googled versions of Android like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, and e/OS and mobile Linux ...

Look, seasonal forecasting is tricky, and there are LOTS of large-scale climate processes that factor into it. Marine heat waves, which is what the blob is, are definitely one of them. And they are ...