Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer has suggested that the moon could explain the difference in lighting in the surveillance images that have been released in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, ...

Nearly 60 years ago, a cowboy rode on horseback into the Northern California wilderness with a 16mm camera. He returned with a snippet of film documenting one of the most notorious cryptid sightings ...

Christopher Beha’s path to atheism began in college. Close encounters with death—a brother’s car accident, his own cancer diagnosis—led to a period of disenchantment. He picked up Bertrand Russell’s ...

PCWorld reports that Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot now generates interactive visuals like charts and diagrams to enhance concept explanations. This visual feature helps users better understand complex ...

They weren’t kidding at the end of last night’s Oscars: Conan O’Brien, if you want it, the Academy Awards “host for life” job is yours — well, at least for the final two years of ABC’s deal. “Oh, that ...

The ability to sense environmental temperature, which helps animals move away from suboptimal locations and find those with ideal temperatures, involves various channels on sensory neurons that open ...

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The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds ...

Curtis joined the Power 105.1 radio program to explain her use of the phrase "fart n***er" while filming 'Rehab Addict.' By Tony Maglio Perhaps Nicole Curtis should have hired a crisis PR team. “What ...

An unprecedented shutdown of the mobile internet in Russia has sparked fears of a digital crackdown in the country and speculation it could be in response to President Vladimir Putin’s fears about his ...