The “Novo Sconcertante Italico”

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Sony has new, spiffy see-through controllers and covers for its PlayStation 5 that let you see the hardware guts inside.

a certain kind of person writes in all lowercase now. why?

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.

The automaker has been criticized for misleading drivers with the feature’s name. Now it’s renaming it for European regulators.

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter.

Under 1 million years old, “Elias 2-24b” is now the youngest exoplanet ever observed, and it may force researchers to reevaluate theories about how planets are formed.

In a world of AI Overviews, Wikipedia usage declines. But the real loss may be far more existential than website traffic.

Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient’s death.