Bluesky looks and functions like Twitter at the outset, but the platform stands out because of what lies under the hood.

Arrivederci.

The study ran for nine years at Norway's Smøla wind farm.

When her win was announced, a search for Donna Strickland’s name on Wikipedia turned up nothing.

Amazon's experimental wireless mesh networking turns users into guinea pigs.

New research indicates the internet doesn't make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone.

The trucker blockade in Ottawa is an armed occupation of a G-7 capital.

At least two more minors made pregnant by sexual assault were forced to leave Ohio to avoid having their rapists’ babies.

This is the “sweetest” story.

“Together, we have become stronger for this nation.”

“We were able to study in detail what happens when a star is eaten by such a monster.”

While there are anecdotes aplenty, there's also some solid science behind the worries.

False claims that the invasion of Congress was staged spread at breakneck pace—thanks to activists, the media, and Republican politicians.

Nichelle Nichols, the beloved Lt. Uhura on 'Star Trek,' is living with dementia and struggling financially. Three parties fight to control her fate.

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother of Hubble' Space Telescope, Passes Away at 93.

It all comes down to gravity, surface tension—and tilt.

Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to a new paper. What makes this planetary

AMP is a pretty engaging sci-fi short written and directed by Adam Marisett for Triton Films. It's set in a world where giant robots can be your best

Psychologist Pete Etchells chats with Ars about his first book, Lost in a Good Game.

Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is only the second woman to be awarded the Copley Medal.

Henry Reich created a fantastic whiteboard animation documenting and diagramming the different forms of time travel employed in fiction.

Ars chats with the actor about his long journey playing the beloved character.

Bob Dorough, who died this week at age 94, wrote and performed some of the most beloved Schoolhouse Rock songs.

Freedom gas!

First Optimus prototype walked onto stage, waved. Another one needed support and slumped over.

JPL built Cold Atom Lab to make so-called Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity.

The astronomer was famously excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by EJEK (@ejek98) on Dec 15, 2018 at 11:50am PST Glasgow street artist EJEK paid amazing tribute to the late,

The Higgs boson has been seen acting just as the standard model of physics predicts – which leaves us without clues to dark matter and other mysteries

Also: news on The Mandalorian S3, Ahsoka, and kid-centric series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

It’s estimated to take 10 years, cost $4.7 billion, and require more than 200 petabytes of digital storage space (a petabyte is one quadrillion, or 1015 bytes).

Long may Saga reign.

It roved a staggering 45.16 kilometers across the Red Planet.

Interactive globe shows where your hometown was at various stages of Earth's deep geological past.

The Alabama Board of Education banned yoga — and the use of the word "namaste" — in schools in 1993.

Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.

Let’s get something out of the way up front: Ray Magliozzi hates cars. And not in a my-car-is-a-pain-in-the-ass-and-it’s-always-breaking kind of way (though there is some of that too), but in a...

“This came as a big surprise. I expected a complete breakdown of conventional physics.”

Scientist Masahiko Sato uses glass, oil, and refraction to create an invisible Rube Goldberg machine

In 1920s America the insidious Invisible Empire was not only visible; it participated in otherwise polite society.

For 16 years, Virginia Trimble read every astronomy paper in 23 journals. Now, her review papers are part of the canon.

A house built from geodesic domes off the coast of Florida was designed to withstand gale-force winds and powerful storm surges but not sea-level rise

The Tesla CEO said he wanted to "temper expectations" during Q3 results call.

Ars chats with physicist Greg Gbur about his book, Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics

This is remarkable

"Don't hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole."

After 50 years, people are still discovering interesting Game of Life patterns.

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s...

The rover Europe sends to Mars in 2020 to look for life will carry the name of an unsung hero of DNA discovery.

Video blogger and web producer Evan Puschak aka The Nerdwriter took a reflective look at the timelessness of Michael Jackson's 1979 song "Don't Stop 'Til

When a colossal plume of ash and lava exploded from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, few people probably had their minds on the animal life in

“The empire will fall. Order will vanish. This massive event is rushing to meet us.”

It's the most massive, distant, and energetic black-hole merger yet.

Just six percent of bots on Twitter accounted for 31 percent of bad information.