As of this week, Jurassic Park is officially 21 years old. And more than two decades after it hit theaters in 1993, Steven Spielberg?s dinosaur flick is still talked about as a landmark of filmmaking because it revolutionized how movie-makers handled visual effects.
Originally the movie?s dinos we…

Driving around with my little sister in the back seat recently, I noticed something odd. She had, well, ?appropriated? a helium balloon from a display at the supermarket (stealing is wrong, Hanna) and I watched it float back and forth as we stopped and started on the road. The weird thing was that t…

A female superb fairy-wren. Photo: Diane Colombelli-Negrel

I?ve written before about the evolutionary arms race between brood parasites (who lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leaving them to raise their chicks) and their hosts. In these systems, host birds benefit from recognizing and re…

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When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet giant and went to work for Twitter, they missed Borg.
Borg was the sweeping software system that managed the thousands of computer servers underpinning Google?s online empire. With Borg, Goog…

After sitting out most of the last console generation, Doom is back. The sequel/reboot to the seminal shooter series might not be making its official bow until this year?s QuakeCon, but until then, developer iD Software and publisher Bethesda have released the first trailer for E3.
From iD:
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