A viral gene drive could offer a new approach to fighting herpes
A new gene drive can copy and paste itself into the genomes of herpes simplex…
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Captain Nemo swashbuckles his way under the sea in Nautilus trailer
Shazad Latif stars as Captain Nemo in Prime Video’s new series, Nautilus. Captain Nemo is…
Toothbrushes and showerheads are teeming with viruses unknown to science, study shows
Scientists identified more than 600 viruses in samples taken from bathrooms in the United States.…
Google’s Sycamore quantum computer chip can now outperform the fastest supercomputers, new study suggests
Experiments on Google’s 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new “weak noise phase” in…
Conservatives close the boycott gap: New study highlights shift toward “cancel culture”
A recent study published in American Politics Research highlights an evolving trend in the United…
Join Ars in DC for infrastructure, cocktails, and spycraft on October 29
After a great event last month in San Jose, Ars is switching coasts for October…
Sunderfolk is a couch co-op tactical RPG you play with a phone. No, really.
Tabletop board games and video games typically offer ways to reduce their difficulty. But getting…
There’s a new term for attempting to own the wind: ventography
Nations established territorial claims underground to access oil and gas. Now they are expanding those…
Hurricane Milton is tied for the fastest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record. It could become the new normal.
Hurricane Milton captured by NASA’s GOES-East satellite as it made landfall on Florida’s west coast.
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Act fast and save big on fitness trackers from Garmin, Samsung, and Fitbit with these…
Watch atoms fuse into world’s ‘smallest bubble’ of water in 1st-of-its-kind ‘nanoscale’ video
A new study captured never-before-seen footage of hydrogen and oxygen atoms combining to form a…
“I was astonished”: Universal and unique motives for beauty-enhancing behaviors revealed in cross-cultural study
From the Cook Islands to Poland, people everywhere strive to look their best—but the reasons…
What leads rivers to suddenly change course?
An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and…
Study finds marriage is linked to changes in sexism
Marriage is associated with increases in sexist attitudes shortly after marriage, particularly in men’s hostile…
Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?
House cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s been sparking worries…
In 2024, bird flu posed big risks — and to far more than birds
News reports of bird flu striking huge flocks of birds — including farmed poultry —…
Evidence of Assyrians’ conquest of Holy Land discovered in Jerusalem
The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century…
Misophonia shares genetic links with depression, anxiety, and PTSD
A recent study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience has shed light on the genetic factors…
Archive.org, a repository storing the entire history of the Internet, has been hacked
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet,…
Maze of adapters, software patches gets a dedicated GPU working on a Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically-interesting-but-practically-questionable projects, and…
Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad
Compounding pharmacies are suing the Food and Drug Administration so they can keep making imitation…
Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test
If 2022 was the year AI image generators went mainstream, 2024 has arguably been the…
Rapid analysis finds climate change’s fingerprint on Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene crossed the Gulf of Mexico at a time when sea surface temperatures were…
Never-before-seen head of prehistoric, car-size ‘millipede’ solves evolutionary mystery
The fossil showed unique stalked eyes and centipede-like characteristics.
