In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in t...
A made-up global warming theory discussed in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast is spreading on TikTok despite the platform's new policy against climate disinformation, a new report shared exclusively w...
Teemu Arina will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amsterdam. If you want to experience the event (and say hi to our editorial team!), we've got something special for...
In 1925, a sled dog named Balto led his plucky canine team on the last leg of a grueling 127-hour dogsled relay across Alaska to bring lifesaving medicine to the people of Nome--the famous "Serum Run....
Science and the technology it enables have always had a close relationship with warfare. But World War II saw science's destructive power raised to new levels. As the threat of nuclear annihilation re...
Digital twins -- virtual replicas of real-world things -- are already commonplace in manufacturing, industry, and aerospace. There are highly complex digital models of cities, ports, and power station...
With the advent of genomic studies, it's become ever more clear that humanity's genetic history is one of churn. Populations migrated, intermingled, and fragmented wherever they went, leaving us with ...
ExxonMobil predicted rising global temperatures with remarkable accuracy even as it attempted to downplay the existence of climate change, new research shows. It comes with damning data visualizations...