Justicia Clew: what a hackathon build teaches you that a tutorial never will This was my first SF hackathon. I was nervous going in, and not really about the code. I was nervous I'd get put on a team I didn't pick, or worse, that I'd have to pitch myself onto one.
Build vs buy: what running your own CAPTCHA-solving stack actually costs Every team that automates against the public web eventually hits the same fork: a scraper, a monitoring job, a QA suite, or an agent starts tripping CAPTCHAs, and someone asks "should we just build our own solver instead of ...
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Imagine trying to trap a miniature star inside a machine without letting it touch the walls or burn itself out. This is the central, high-stakes challenge of high-temperature plasma engineering.
Tiny particles made from the membranes of human immune cells could offer a promising new way to fight fungal infections that are becoming harder to treat. Engineers at the University of California San Diego created antifungal nanoparticles that target Candida albicans, a fungus responsible for o...
Climate change threatens many plant and animal species not only when their habitats disappear as climatic conditions change, but also when those habitats shift. In a new study, a team of University of Potsdam researchers found that whether a species' habitat disappears or shifts has a significan...