Male dragonflies’ dramatic aerial combat maneuvers emerge from relatively simple vision-based rules. Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Credit: Samuel T. Fabian et al., 2026 Male dragonflies are known to engage in mid-air “dogfights” to defend their breeding territory, using different maneuvers than those they employ when hunting…
Drone intruders that possibly flew from Russian ships showed Europe isn’t ready. Mysterious drone flights that disrupted major European airports and flew over NATO member military bases hosting US nuclear weapons may be the work of a coordinated Kremlin campaign launched from Russian-linked commercial ships. That recent assessment from…
Its issues with current nuclear safety standards are termed semantic, not physical. Last week, just before the US started its break for the July Fourth holiday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proposed a new rule that would change how it regulated exposure to radiation. The Trump administration has been…
It will take several weeks for the Link spacecraft to rendezvous with NASA’s Swift observatory. High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an air-launched rocket fired into space on Independence Day weekend to kick off a weekslong pursuit of a…
Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises. Last month, Xbox executives laid out some “hard truths” about Microsoft’s struggling gaming division that they said would require a difficult “Xbox reset.” This morning, Microsoft revealed the brutal shape of that “reset,” announcing plans…
Sometimes races finish behind a safety car, but it’s not always satisfying. Formula 1 returned to what is a home race for most of the teams on the grid this past weekend with the British Grand Prix. Yet again this season, we saw the fastest car not win the…
The new model will be officially unveiled in late September. Bentley is preparing to add a fourth model to its rarified lineup, and today we know what it will be called: the Torcal. The carmaker has been working on its first electric vehicle for a while now; it was…
This hybrid V8 has organic-looking 3D-printed components and shatters lap records. The temptation with a car like the Czinger 21C is to treat it as a collection of extreme specifications, and to be fair, it’s certainly not lacking in that department. At its most basic level, the carbon-fiber-bodied 21C…
Chemicals from accidents that injured or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years. Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation testing. Hydrofluoric acid, also…
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior. Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed. “The continents started appearing around about four billion years…
