New York Times: The world’s most extensive and diverse collection of historical computer hardware has a permanent and newly refurbished home in Mountain View, a town in California’s Silicon Valley. Once housed in Boston, the Computer History Museum moved to California in 2000, occupying the office building of a failed dot-com company. The museum has stayed in the building, which has just undergone a major refurbishment. Among the artifacts on display are Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine, a German World War II Enigma machine, a Cray-1 supercomputer, and a Google server.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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