One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Artificial intelligence, often called AI, refers to computer systems that can perform tasks normally associated with human intelligence. These tasks may include learning from data, recognizing ...

The takeaway: An international team of astronomers has published a study on LHS 1903, a red dwarf star hosting a truly unusual planetary system. Unlike our solar system and many previously discovered ...

In typical midterm election years, few party primaries garner much attention. Intramural political contests tend to be such sleepy affairs that only about 1 in 5 eligible voters bother to cast a ...

Even as misinformation proliferates across the Internet, sites containing low-credibility health information remain relatively scarce and unseen. That's according to new research from University of ...

Adam Liptak, The Times’s chief legal affairs correspondent, is writing a new weekly newsletter, The Docket, to help demystify the justice system. Credit...Julia Kluge Supported by By Sarah Bahr Times ...

Thread is a protocol designed to connect smart home devices in a wireless mesh network. It works much like Wi-Fi but requires less power. With Thread, devices from any manufacturer can create a ...

What’s Gone Right in the Iran War? Audio By Carbonatix The struggle is best understood as a code war — originating in technology but extending far beyond it. The United States approved the export of ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe ...

The innovations in quantum computing are promising to herald a new era of mind bending advances in areas like climate change, healthcare and finance, but what actually is a quantum computer, how are ...

The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, California, looks like a fine way to spend an afternoon for anyone interested in, well, the history of computers. And if that description fits you ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. You’ve seen the Glambot—the slow ...