Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host
Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.
Ars chats with host James Burke about his "connective" approach to science history.
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.
A new study offers an alternative to earlier explanations for why moths and other bugs are attracted to artificial sources of illumination.
Some organisms truck along slowly for aeons before suddenly surging into dominance – and something similar often happens with human inventions, too. But why?
The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto
Just how far can this climate momentum take us?
A new report suggests that the Inflation Reduction Act could be even bigger than Congress thinks.
Fire ants will change shape of the raft to reduce drag and adapt to fluid flows.
An ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece is yielding secrets as an archaeological exploration project dives deeper. The effort relies on technological innovation.
Researchers have built an algorithm that can scan old astronomical images for unnoticed space rocks, helping to detect objects that could one day imperil Earth.
Military experts say a new generation of nuclear weapons has raised the risk that Mr. Putin might introduce less destructive atomic arms into the battlefields in and around Ukraine.
Companies including Google and Facebook are pouring more than $900 million into a nascent technology that’s essential to zeroing out emissions.
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.
Hundreds of satellites and spacecraft are keeping an eye on Russia’s nuclear forces from above. So far, they haven’t seen much to worry about.
"We all understand how difficult this is."
Does your internal monologue play out on a television, in an attic, as a bickering Italian couple – or is it entirely, blissfully silent?
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
Octopuses and squid are full of cephalopod character. But more scientists are making the case that cuttlefish hold the key to unlocking evolutionary secrets about intelligence.
Trawling ancient history with neural nets.
Scientists in Hungary are streaming experiments with dogs that know many words, featuring them in a contest of canine intelligence.
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Rocket Lab may be able to send a small spacecraft to probe the clouds of Venus long before NASA or other space agencies are able to do so.
Dogs and cats don't see as clearly as humans—and they're lacking in the color department—but they can see movement much better than we can.
Researchers have found fish that absorb more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits their skin.
The process of making tengujo is fairly simple, but the nearly transparent product that results is almost magical.
Video calls seemed an elegant solution to remote work, but they wear on the psyche in complicated ways.
Critics say the popular Netflix series and its directors lost sight of the conservation and animal welfare problems at the heart of the story of Joe Exotic.