Testing shows rotor blades won’t disintegrate when they spin at supersonic speed. A little more than three years since NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter ended its pioneering mission at Mars, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are designing next-generation Martian rotorcraft to carry heavier payloads longer distances through the planet’s…
Three served on the HMS Erebus; the fourth was Petty Officer Harry Peglar of the HMS Terror. Archaeologists continue to use DNA analysis to identify the recovered remains of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin’s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. They can…
There are a couple signs of strain beyond the MacBook Neo and the desktops. The Apple Macintosh is more than 40 years old, but it’s still going strong, and its recent success was significant enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook called it out during the company’s earnings call last…
As pollen season worsens, allergies compound with other climate health hazards. It’s not in your head. Climate change is contributing to longer and more severe pollen seasons across the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Neelima Tummala, an ear, nose, and throat doctor at NYU Langone Health, said her patients tell her…
“Changes in market conditions” lead to $50 price bump on Sept. 1. When we reviewed the Switch 2 just after its launch last year, we warned that interested customers might want to buy in early, as the launch price could go up. That potential price hike became a reality…
The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint. It’s no fun living through the global energy shock and growing economic crisis that has ensued since the conflict choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. But it can be enlightening to play through…
The developer of Firefox says it has “completely bought in” on AI-assisted bug discovery. The disbelief was palpable when Mozilla’s CTO last month declared that AI-assisted vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered” and “defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.” After all, it looked like part of an…
The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today. Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much…
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair? Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects:…
Nordschleife-specialist Manthey has developed an upgrade package for the Porsche EV. Porsche is known for building cars that really are extremely good right out of the box. Yes, they tend to be more expensive than the other German luxury car brands, particularly once the option list comes out. But…
