Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Python Polars 1.0.0-rc.1 released One of Python’s coolest dataframe-wrangling libraries—already up to 10x faster than Pandas —just got a whole lot cooler. A JIT compiler for CPython Core Python ...

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons ...

One reality of modern life is that people walking down a sidewalk tend to have their attention focused downward at their phones. Our lives exist inside those phones. But should they? Public clocks are ...

Python hunting occurs year-round in Florida to combat the invasive species disrupting the Everglades ecosystem. The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program pays hunters to ...

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

Brighten up your home walls with a unique piece of decor created from simple materials found around the house. This project uses scrap cardboard and jute rope to craft an artistic peacock-shaped wall ...

The clock debate pops up every year as Americans ask the same question: Are we still changing clocks — or is daylight saving time about to disappear? Here's when and what to know about this year's ...

After five recent trips with TripADeal, here is my personal review on why I love TripADeal and why I've booked another two trips.