As ABL Space departs launch, the 1-ton rocket wars have a clear winner
"Our path to making a big contribution as a commercial launch company narrowed considerably."
Science // Science & Exploration
Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.
Whatever your office setup, the most important thing is to move.
IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
Incremental improvements across the hardware and software stacks add up.
What did the snowball Earth look like?
Entire continents, even in the tropics, seem to have been under sheets of ice.
Firefly Aerospace rakes in more cash as competitors struggle for footing
The Series D fundraising round was "oversubscribed" and netted Firefly $175 million.
Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of H5 bird flu
The teen had no clear exposures to animals. No contacts have tested positive.
Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later
Ars chats with director Juliette Eisner and original study participants in new documentary series.
This elephant figured out how to use a hose to shower
A younger rival may have learned how to sabotage those showers by disrupting water flow.
For the second time this year, NASA’s JPL center cuts its workforce
"If we hold strong together, we will come through this."
There are some things the Crew-8 astronauts aren’t ready to talk about
"I did not say I was uncomfortable talking about it. I said we're not going to talk about it."
Russia: Fine, I guess we should have a Grasshopper rocket project, too
On this timeline Russia is nearly a decade and a half behind SpaceX.
How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
Research monkeys still having a ball days after busting out of lab, police say
They pose no risk to human health, and they're living their best lives.
Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all
Saddle up, space cowboys. It may get bumpy for a while.
DNA shows Pompeii’s dead aren’t who we thought they were
Integrating genetic data with historic and archaeological data can enrich or correct popular narratives.
