F1 now takes a monthlong summer break, but what’s the state of the championship? Formula 1 teams can start their annual summer break today. Sometime this month, each of the 10 teams has to close its factory for 14 consecutive days. Laptops stay in the office, email goes unchecked.…
Officials say there are no leaks and hazardous nests are from legacy contamination. Wasps living around a Cold War-era nuclear facility in South Carolina have built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent of environmental contamination, according to a report…
Discover movies and shows you’ve never seen before. We all know how to find our favorite shows and blockbuster films on mainstream streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+. But even as streaming has opened the door to millions of hours of on-demand entertainment, it can still feel…
The break-even point with an ICE vehicle is as little as one year. BMW provided flights from Los Angeles to Munich and Washington, plus accommodation, so Ars could be briefed on the iX3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH—BMW’s next model launch is an important one. When…
“We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11.” The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, taking aim at the massive orbiting research complex for a planned stay of six…
A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb. Silicon Valley’s AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250…
Tesla must pay the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages, the jury said. Tesla was found partially liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in a federal court in Miami today. It’s the first time that a jury has found against the car company in a wrongful death case involving…
Drones can now carry significant payloads. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has placed unbelievable pressure on drone developers on both sides of the war, who have responded with astounding innovations that include: fiber-optic drones (to prevent radio jamming) kamikaze sea drones, eventually equipped with anti-air missiles drones that fire…
Amazon has failed to make Alexa profitable thus far. Since 2023, Amazon has been framing Alexa+ as a monumental evolution of Amazon’s voice assistant that will make it more conversational, capable, and, for Amazon, lucrative. Amazon said in a press release on Thursday that it has given early access…
Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we…
