Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them
Third-party tools grab personal information from medical, genetic-testing company sites.
Science // Science & Exploration
Being around predators makes animals pretty bad parents
Fear can halve the population size of songbirds—and maybe others—in five years.
Atomic cloud key to controlling a quantum state without measuring it
Cloud of atoms acts as the heart of a controller for quantum cooling system.
Watch this mama chimp treat her son’s open wound by applying insect “poultice”
Observed behavior could be evidence of "prosocial" human-like empathy in primates.
Russia has given its space chief a series of huge raises
Dmitry Rogozin received a salary of $1.3 million, plus benefits, in 2020.
Battery-powered trains are picking up speed
Electric locomotives could cut emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic pollutants.
The oldest hominin fossil ever found in the Levant
The fossil hints that early members of our genus expanded out of Africa in waves.
This fossilized fish skull is filled with feces
Tiny scavenging worms likely ate their way into the skull and pooped out the pellets.
Great balls of fire: A monk named Gervase saw ball lightning way back in 1195
Gervase of Canterbury described a "fiery globe" falling toward the Thames.
A new database reveals how much humans are messing with evolution
Some animals and plants are rapidly adapting to our warming, polluted world.
Smokers gave a home to bacteria that now sicken people with cystic fibrosis
Explaining how M. abscessus was ready once CF patients started living longer.
First, do no harm: An argument for a radical new paradigm for treating addiction
Ars chats with author Maia Szalavitz about her book, Undoing Drugs.
X-ray analysis confirms forged date on Lincoln pardon of Civil War soldier
Alas, the forged date can't be removed without damaging the document.
Webb Telescope away with two major hurdles cleared after flawless launch
Lots of hurdles to come, but a good start for the new observatory.
Tune in as NASA and the ESA launch the next great space telescope
Follow along as astronomers start unwrapping a telescope-sized gift at 7 am US Eastern.
