2025-06-09

Get Outside and Spot June's Strawberry Moon This Week

The moon is also part of what's called a major lunar standstill, and the next one won't be for another 18.6 years. [...]

2025-06-09

Tesla's make-or-break robotaxi moment is here. Can Elon Musk deliver?

Elon Musk has been promising robotaxis since at least 2016. Back then, the idea sounded like a bit like science fiction, and Musk’s timeline was — as ever — aggressively optimistic. Nearly a dec [...]

2025-06-08

A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. [...]

2025-06-07

The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system

A mix of autonomous and top-down control manage the octopus's limbs. [...]

2025-06-07

Uber Just Reinvented the Bus … Again

Beyond the jokes about its new shuttle service are serious questions about what it will mean for struggling transit systems, air quality, and congestion. [...]

2025-06-06

Cambridge mapping project solves a medieval murder

“A tale of shakedowns, sex, and vengeance that expose[s] tensions between the church and England’s elite." [...]

2025-06-06

Black Myth: Wukong is getting an Xbox port on August 20

Black Myth: Wukong is finally coming to the Xbox Series X|S, one year after it was released for the PlayStation 5 and for Windows PCs. Its developer Game Science will roll out the Xbox version of the [...]

2025-06-06

Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms

Simulations suggest where we might look for the mystery material. [...]

2025-06-06

Startup puts a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware

Nord Quantique's plan for error correction involves far less hardware. [...]