2026-10-20 Discoveries

I built a drone with only one motor [video]

Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

State-of-the-art probabilistic forecasting in four sizes (5M–209M params), CPU-efficient, zero-shot ready.

AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

A Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween

Petrifying Raspberry Pi Pico projects that are sure to fright and delight.

An RV on a Bike

Bicycles are the ultimate form of transportation freedom. They’re easy to repair, parts are cheap, and they will travel almost anywhere for free, as long as the rider has enough …

RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]

The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a…

In the Halloween season, one American writer comes to mind more often than any other: Edgar Allan Poe. That owes in large part to his famously macabre tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” written though they may have been with barely…

Partnering to strengthen the grid and support local communities in Arkansas

Since we first announced plans to build in West Memphis, Arkansas, we’ve continued to work with community members.

Meshtastic Sniffer for DragonOS

Meshtastic has gained a lot of popularity over the last few years thanks to its low barrier of entry. No licenses are needed and the hardware is dirt cheap, at …

Walking May Improve Your Attention Span

One more reason to get those steps in

When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)

Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked a colleague to review the paper, just to make sure it…

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Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’

Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Rithika Merchant…

How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook

Gemini Notebook is giving more creative control in the creation of Slide Decks and Video Overviews.

Longevity Research Has a Bullshit Problem

How impossible ages, lost paperwork, and invented biographies become scientific fact

An Open Micro-Maniplulator Improved

If you need a micro-manipulator, you probably already have a good idea of what it does. For example, you might be moving a probe over an IC die or wafer. …

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Talk to your AI coding agent over a walkie-talkie

4 tips for styling outfits with Gemini

Here’s how athlete stylist Sydney Bordonaro uses Gemini to build looks for clients — and how you can build your own, too.

In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind

"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article In ‘Aeolus,’…

It's still ok to enjoy programming

Starcraft: Ashfall

A fan-made StarCraft game. Completely free, on web and mobile. Command Terran and Protoss forces, hold the bridge, and see how deep the swarm really goes.

Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

Changing habits may be the hardest engineering challenge of all

Wine ported to OpenBSD

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

Today, we officially roll out MiniMax M3.1 Flash. As a next-generation Flash model, M3.1 Flash delivers a generational leap in agentic tasks, coding, Computer Use and cybersecurity, while making online inference nearly three times faster…

The Disturbing Sound The FBI Used At Waco

the audio is played at 28:18 here: https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/texas-cult-standoff-day-2/52898 source of artist's recreation of waco: https://www.roddickinson.net/pages/waco/project-synopsis.php

“It Feels Like Something Out of Science Fiction”: Astronomers Find First Green Star

The universe just got a little more colorful

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Turn any song into a full-band chart for YARG and Clone Hero

Come Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait

The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star with a very dense stellar core that is shedding its outer layers. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Come Face-to-Face…