New Year's Day commemorates the passing of time and the start of a new chapter, so it is fitting that the same day also presents an opportunity to breathe new life into thousands of creative works ...

Typing a web address directly into your browser feels harmless. In fact, it feels normal. But new research shows that a simple habit is now one of the riskiest things you can do online. A recent study ...

Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired ...

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ordinary crystals: the strength of interactions between electrons and lattice ...

An Arizona man looking for a huge payday for his ‘Lambo.com’ domain wound up left with nothing but legal fees and a loss of his initial investment, after a United States district court ruled in favor ...

An Electron lifts off Nov. 20 carrying an undisclosed commercial satellite. Credit: Rocket Lab BREMEN, Germany — Rocket Lab launched a payload for an undisclosed commercial customer Nov. 20, just ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

The FBI has shared 42,000 phishing domains tied to the LabHost cybercrime platform, one of the largest global phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms that was dismantled in April 2024. The published ...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Bridgestone launches the Electron, a new low-compression ball targeting junior golfers starting to develop an appreciation for the game. The Electron is designed with soft feel ...

A new year means a new start, and for some pieces of media, it means entering the public domain. In 2024, one of the most famous additions to the public domain was the first iteration of Mickey Mouse, ...