The Economist

How the biggest trees survive droughts

By virtue of their enormous size, the tallest 1% of trees store over half of the carbon in Earth’s forests. The assumption ...

How tall and short trees can coexist in old growth forests

Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...

The Web Is Growing A Second Layer – Almost A Third Head

Google shipped two new specs weeks apart. Here's what OKF and ARD actually do, how they differ from LLMs.txt and MCP, and ...

Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 1 released with Dappled Forest biome, Poplar trees and abandoned camps

Mojang has released Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 1 for Java Edition, introducing a new biome, tree type, structures, decorative blocks and multiple technical improvements. The snapshot is now available for ...
The Straits Times

Living Lab: $14 million awarded for testing coastal defence projects in Singapore

SINGAPORE – An eco-friendly seawall that seals its own cracks and gradually adapts to rising sea levels is among five projects slated for testing along Singapore’s coastline from 2027. Backed by an ...
GitHub

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

🔍 PDF parser for AI data extraction — Extract Markdown, JSON (with bounding boxes), and HTML from any PDF. #1 in benchmarks (0.907 overall). Deterministic local mode + AI hybrid mode for complex ...