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Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race.

Roughly 200 people are under medical observation, several hospitals are under quarantine, and dozens are in isolation in Russia following the unexplained death of an infectious disease researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia, in

Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places amid growing privacy concerns over wearable technology.

The mechanical keyboard isn't always so mechanical anymore.

Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharoahs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice.

Chimps fish for algae in a rare example of primate tool use.

If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right?

Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94.

This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit.

Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.

"Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea," Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database.

On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.

COVID-19 made the weaknesses in our pandemic preparedness at national and global levels painfully clear.

California’s attorney general and three city attorneys announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft after allegations that the company “committed wage theft by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors rather than employees” between 2016 and 20…

One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people better off overall.

The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China.

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across.

In late 1970, a Titan IIIC rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at what was then called Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

My family has spent four summers participating in demand response programs whereby utility companies pay customers to reduce energy use on the hottest summer days.

Tesla sold 486,532 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2026.

The era of generative AI has upended technology supply chains, and there is one ironclad rule in 2026: If it has memory or storage, it's getting more expensive.

Welcome to Edition 9.13 of the Rocket Report!

What makes a display a Mini LED display?

Venus is shrouded in a veil of mystery.

A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on the International Space Station.

The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks.

In a setback for publishers worried about the effects of AI search, a US federal judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google.

Humans can be a frisky bunch, and it wasn’t very long after Tesla Autopilot started letting drivers go hands-free before people decided to post footage of themselves having sex from the driver’s seat.

With its premiere just two weeks away, Marvel Studios has dropped one last trailer for the limited series, VisionQuest, which will complete the trilogy begun with WandaVision and Agatha All Along.

Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years.

Florida cops are facing questions after a mandate to remove all Flock cameras tracking cars on St.

Deep Blue took down Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol at Go in 2016, and poker bots have been beating professionals for years.

A year or two ago, a few Canadian launch companies were trying to develop small rockets, but if we're being frank, the industry was not particularly notable.

For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will be scaling back).

An attempt to save NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from dropping out of orbit fell short, but the behind-the-scenes machinations required just to make a rescue possible deserve recognition, government and commercial space officials said…

About 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth, kicking up tsunamis and dropping hot debris that annihilated non-avian dinosaurs and many other species.

A fifth, unvaccinated person has died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state's health department announced Wednesday.

An Argentinian-American writer and immigration advocate recently sued the federal government, demanding that it delete data that he believes was copied off of his phone when he re-entered the United States earlier this month.

Most implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps work in isolation.

Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in an attempt to obtain email backups and authentication credentials of vulnerable organzations, Microsoft has warned.

Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models.

Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months.

At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F.

There was a call to boycott Disney last fall.

Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI.

OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public.

In what seems like an alternate universe in hindsight, Russia and the European Space Agency began discussing collaboration on next-generation crewed spacecraft two decades ago.

Google's shift to AI-powered search has upended the way the world's largest search engine generates web traffic, rankling large and small publishers alike.

AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we've been slow to recognize potential threats.

For a few years now, the PS5 hacking community has been chipping away at various exploits that let users fully jailbreak their locked-down console.