Beyond qubits: Meet the qutrit (and ququart)

It's relatively easy to store multiple quantum values in one piece of hardware. [...]

How To Watch SpaceX's Next Starship Test Flight on Tuesday

This is Starship's third test flight this year, and the ninth flight overall since SpaceX first launched the craft in 2023. [...]

The best advent calendars for 2025: Our top picks from Pokémon, Funko Pop, Lego and others

Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]

RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC. [...]

Honda shows off three new EVs in Tokyo, but its US plans are getting more tepid

Every two years, the Japan Mobility Show gives us a preview of the future of motoring as envisioned by the major Japanese manufacturers. Sadly, for Honda, the resounding message coming from this year& [...]

Snowflake builds new intelligence that goes beyond RAG to query and aggregate thousands of documents at once

Enterprise AI has a data problem. Despite billions in investment and increasingly capable language models, most organizations still can't answer basic analytical questions about their document re [...]

Claude’s new Learning mode will prompt students to answer questions on their own

According to a recent Digital Education Council survey, as many as 86 percent of university students globally use artificial intelligence to assist with their coursework. It’s a staggering statistic [...]

What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin

Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it. [...]

The 10 best sleep apps and gadgets for a better night's sleep in 2026

Tech has a bad (and deserved) reputation as a sleep killer. Blue light, incessant scrolling and information onslaught conspire to keep us on edge and exiled from dreamland. But a few gadgets and apps [...]