Biology could explain the find, but there are other potential explanations. NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes were at work on Mars billions of years ago. The rover has found organic carbon, but it has mostly been…
NASA awarded Rocket Lab deals for three dedicated launches using the company’s Electron rocket. Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches and landings we were most excited about in 2026. The list included things that were, at the time,…
C:ArsGames takes a look at the time Chris Roberts more or less made a whole movie. If I had to pick a chunk of the 1990s that feels the most 90s-ish to me, it’d be the two-year stretch between 1996 and 1997. 1996 saw me graduating from high school…
The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers. Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed in a disk…
New US rules would legalize quiet supersonic flights without the sonic boom. A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of commercial supersonic…
Plex is pushing customers to newer features and more frequent payments. When Plex launched in 2012, it sold lifetime access to its media server software for $75. In 2014, Plex raised the price to be more sustainable for the company, it said, and for years, Lifetime Plex Passes cost…
It only works for a few divisions thanks to a lot of added materials. Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We’ve made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present on an early Earth built the complex molecules used by…
The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android. Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but…
Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory. If the car-buying public had qualms about Tesla, it appears to have gotten over them. This morning, the automaker released its sales and production numbers for the second quarter of the year. And if you’re a fan of activist CEO…
Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter. Near the end of May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a new rule that would govern how the federal government handles the grants it issues, including those that fund the vast majority…
