Sphero's RVR Programmable Coding Robot Car Is $50 Off for Black Friday By Tariq Malik Amazon has slashed the Sphere RVR price by 20% for Black Friday.
Long-Hidden 3D Scan of Ancient Egyptian Nefertiti Bust Finally Revealed By Mindy Weisberger The "Bust of Nefertiti" was scanned years ago by the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin, but the scan was not previously available.
Why Does Tesla's Cybertruck Look Like It Belongs In A Low-Res Video Game? By Nicoletta Lanese Elon Musk unveiled his new Cybertruck, and boy does it look … unique.
Jet-Powered Car Roars Past 500 Mph. But Can This Beast Hit 1,000 Mph Without Destroying Itself? By Tom Metcalfe
In Photos: 'Bloodhound' Car Has a Jet Engine. And It Could Break the Sound Barrier. By Tom Metcalfe This jet-powered car called Bloodhound aims to break the sound barrier and then break the land speed record.
The 'Three-Body Problem' Has Perplexed Astronomers Since Newton Formulated It. A.I. Just Cracked It in Under a Second. By Edd Gent It took just fractions of a second.
Google's Quantum Computer Just Aced an 'Impossible' Test By Tim Childers For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a task that Google says would be impossible for the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
Giant Plasma Guns Could Be the Answer to Limitless Fusion Power By Rafi Letzter Los Alamos physicists want to combine two fusion-power techniques and finally harness the energy source that powers the sun.
Fluorescent, Rainbow-Colored Turtle Embryo Earns Microscope Photo Contest's Top Prize By Mindy Weisberger Photos of delicate embryos, feathery mosquito antenna and a frozen water droplet were just a few of the standout images in this year's Nikon Small World microphotography contest.
This 'Doomsday' Plane Was Designed to Survive a Nuclear Attack. A Bird Just Took It Down. By Jeanna Bryner This Navy craft is meant to communicate with nuclear forces in the event of a nuclear war. And a bird strike just grounded it.
Virgin Galactic Unveils New Line of Under Armour 'Spacewear' for Space Tourists By Tariq Malik Virgin Galactic and partner Under Armour unveiled a new line of "spacewear" spacesuits for future passengers on SpaceShipTwo.
Why Computers Will Never Be Truly Conscious By Subhash Kak Here's why computers will never be truly conscious.
3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Developing the Lithium-Ion Battery By Jeanna Bryner Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery that powers everything from smartphones to electric cars.
Useless Self-Help Guide Offers Ludicrous Solutions to Everyday Problems By Mindy Weisberger A new book by Randall Munroe, author of the popular science webcomic xkcd, explains how to fix real-world problems by using science to find ridiculously complicated solutions.
From Brain Control to Multiverses, 'Rick and Morty' Gets Some Science Right By Mindy Weisberger A new book tackles the science behind the fantastic technology and sci-fi concepts in the outrageous cartoon series "Rick and Morty."
Why You Shouldn't Worry About China’s New 'Hypersonic' Nuclear Death Machine By Rafi Letzter China already had the power to kill you with nukes. This doesn't change anything, but it could fan the flames of an arms race.
Scientists Can't Agree on Whether Genetically Modified-Mosquito Experiment Went Horribly Wrong By Yasemin Saplakoglu Gene-edited mosquitoes were released into the wild in Brazil and some seem to have passed on their genes to the native insects.
There's a New Blackest Material Ever, and It's Eating a Diamond As We Speak By Brandon Specktor It's so black, it turns diamonds into "black holes."
Sleuths Find the Top-Secret (and Classified) Satellite Behind Trump's Tweeted Photo By Stephanie Pappas It was only a matter of time: Amateur sleuths think they've tracked down the satellite that took a high-resolution image of the aftermath of an Iranian missile disaster.
