Sci-Fi

[embedded content] On Jan. 2, China stunned the world by landing its Chang’e-4 probe on the far side of the moon. Now, you can watch its descent onto the lunar surface, with footage released by […]

It’s not surprising to learn that women who lived during the Middle Ages didn’t always get the credit they deserved, but tangible proof that further erodes our male-centric view of history is always welcome. A […]

Elon Musk is overseeing another round of layoffs for one of his companies. Image: DAVID MCNEW/AFP/Getty Images By Rachel Kraus2019-01-12 18:19:57 UTC After a banner year of successful rocket launches for Elon Musk’s private space […]

IBM unveiled the world’s “first universal approximate quantum computing system installed outside of a research lab” at CES earlier this week — and with it, the next era of computing. The 20-qubit IBM Q System One […]

Elon Musk just gave us a look at the first test version of SpaceX’s Starship. Formerly known as the BFR, Musk announced on Thursday that the spaceflight company’s test version of the Starship, dubbed the […]

Researchers at Michigan State University are exploring the idea that there’s more to “social media addiction” than casual joking about being too online might suggest. Their paper, titled “Excessive social media users demonstrate impaired decision […]

To begin, there’s zero evidence it’s aliens. But for just the second time, a team of astronomers detected a flash of repeating of radio waves emanating from beyond our Milky Way galaxy. Using a new, […]

Ages ago, in a galaxy some 300 million light years away, an unwitting star veered fatally close to a powerful black hole. After shredding the star apart, the black hole ejected pulses of energy into […]

Whenever some new “cosmic puzzle” crops up, you always have to be ready for the other shoe to drop. But just because something isn’t an alien message or Ringworld doesn’t mean it can’t be interesting […]

At CES, IBM today announced its first commercial quantum computer for use outside of the lab. The 20-qubit system combines into a single package the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a […]