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2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (801+ words) These math tricks can make rare Pokémon appear out of nowhere A technique that manipulates the video game's random number generator makes rare Pokemón appear, showing how it's not so random after all By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (693+ words) Wordle, but for art history—Anthropeum puts your artifact smarts to the test Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts By Emma Gometz edited by Claire Cameron Anthropeum is a…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1593+ words) The fans who went from collecting Pokémon to studying bugs and fossils As Pokémon turns 30, we take a look at how the beloved Japanese kids’ franchise was inspired by—and has shaped—real-world science By Kendra Pierre-Louis, Sushmita Pathak & Alex…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (845+ words) The Pokémon franchise, including its recent game Pokémon Pokopia, is inspired by real animals and their ecology. It’s no surprise that so many scientists love to try and “catch ’em all” By David Shiffman edited by Lauren J. Young & Andrea…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (871+ words) A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chance far earlier than their Old World counterparts By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee Billings Humans played games using two-sided dice like these for millennia longer…...

5+ mon, 42+ min ago   (297+ words) Human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological drugs By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Eric Sullivan The…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (841+ words) Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas Game developers didn’t have it easy in the 1990s. Because they had…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (299+ words) The AI boom is coming for the Switch 2 Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory, tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers By Eric Sullivan edited by Claire Cameron Silicon wafers like the…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago   (623+ words) What would the world look like if we changed the value of pi? Whether in the real world or a game environment, the answer is complex By Manon Bischoff edited by Daisy Yuhas Everyone makes mistakes—and sometimes those mistakes…...