Enlarge / Anne Frank in 1940. A new book, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, by Rosemary Sullivan, claims that a retired FBI special agent and a team of investigators have solved the mystery of who betrayed the Frank family to the…
Enlarge / Patriot Front members spray painting in Springfield, IL.
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Chat messages, images, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremicist group called the Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file member…
Enlarge / The 2022 Wagoneer. Uncooperative weather forced us to rely on Stellantis media images for this review.
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Even as the automotive industry charts a course into a mostly electrified future, internal combustion engines still rule th…
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In the first episode of the Foundation series on Apple TV, we see a terrorist try to destroy the space elevator used by the Galactic Empire. This seems like a great chance to talk about the physics of spac…
Enlarge / A court order has led to a longtime Roblox player being banned from the popular game.
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A lawsuit filed by the Roblox Corporation, the operator of one of the most popular online games in the West,…
Enlarge / Sam Zeloof completed this homemade computer chip with 1,200 transistors, seen under a magnifying glass, in August 2021.
Sam Kang
In August, chipmaker Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 bill…
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Slow-motion video of boiling ice, a research project of the Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab at Virginia Tech.
Dash a few drops of water onto a very hot, sizzling skillet and they’ll levitate, sliding around the pan with…
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The second season of Star Trek: Picard premieres March 3, 2022 on Paramount+.
It has been a long, pandemic-fueled wait, but the second season of Star Trek: Picard is almost here, and we now have an official trailer. In …
Enlarge / A tray of prepared syringes for booster vaccinations with Moderna’s vaccine.
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Amid the stratospheric rise of the omicron variant, real-world data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 booster doses is now rolling in—a…
Enlarge / Don’t try this at home. Seriously. We mean it.
Anna Efetova
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have tested a wide range of drugs to see if they inhibit the virus. Most of these tests didn’t end up going anywhere; even…