A simple command-line tool to visualize the dependency tree of a Maven project in a graphical and interactive format. This tool was born out of the frustration of not being able to easily visualize ...

I could not stop thinking about the challenge I had just read on Facebook: "Tell me a sentence that changed your life for the better." A sentence that changed my life. I have so many. I actually ...

What if you’ve already seen fragments of the future - without realizing it? In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire ...

Christmastime is here, or at least it's knocking on the door. The Christmas tree will soon be up and decorated. Until you notice: the tree skirt. Or lack thereof. Don't get your jingle bells in a knot ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

The year is 1921. Louisiana lawmakers ban French in classrooms, silencing the language for generations of families. Decades later, along comes Mavis Arnaud Fruge on a mission to revive the language ...