Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded shipping lane, with fragments of old rockets and defunct satellites threatening the next generation of ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...

Military historians, professionals, and strategists attributed U.S. military victories in World Wars I and II to two basic ...

If you’ve been watching the tech news lately, there’s just one story you’ve probably seen… Black Friday. But if you’ve seen two stories, you’ve probably read about RAM prices going absolutely ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has received a beefy new patch, which includes a number of improvements to downloads, new language options, and other quality-of-life features. This is only the second patch to ...

This article proposes the Political System Index (PSI), a non-normative framework for analysing political systems through Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. Unlike conventional democracy indices ...

General Motors’ new self-driving system will let the driver speed down the highway without looking at the road. It’s one of several features enabled by the adoption of machine intelligence in cars.

Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections. According to ...