Science and Technolgy blog
A series of three studies found that when people experience mixed and conflicted feelings about their partner, they spend more time thinking about the difficulties in the relationship and ways it can be improved. This leads them to engage in…
Throughout the game industry’s short history, there’s been ample debate about how much piracy actually impacts a game’s legitimate sales. On one side, some publishers try to argue that every single pirated download should count as a “lost sale” that…
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex viruses in mice. The end goal is a version that disables the virus in humans.
Shazad Latif stars as Captain Nemo in Prime Video’s new series, Nautilus. Captain Nemo is one of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne’s most captivating fictional characters, appearing in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875).…
Scientists identified more than 600 viruses in samples taken from bathrooms in the United States. The viruses infect bacteria — not people — and scientists say they may provide more benefits than causes for concern.
Experiments on Google’s 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new “weak noise phase” in which calculations were complex enough to outperform supercomputers, based on benchmark testing.
A recent study published in American Politics Research highlights an evolving trend in the United States. The research found that in 2016, strong liberals were significantly more likely to engage in boycotts than strong conservatives. However, by 2020, this gap…
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October and descending in force on our nation’s capital. If you’re on the East Coast and want to come hang out with Ars EIC Ken Fisher…
Tabletop board games and video games typically offer ways to reduce their difficulty. But getting and keeping a group together for a semi-regular game night or impromptu session across different schedules and experience levels? That can be fiendishly hard. That,…
Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those claims upward to snag the wind.
