ROUTE FOR ABOUT A FIFTH OF THE WORLD’S OIL. MEANWHILE, IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS WELL, OFFICIALS ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT CAUSED A REFUELING PLANE TO CRASH IN WESTERN IRAQ THURSDAY. THAT WAS ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail. Ten days ...

Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the North Pacific, and such cannibalism may explain why some orcas travel in large family groups. Two distinct subspecies of orcas, also called ...

A combination of weakened atmospheric removal and increased emissions from warming wetlands, rivers, lakes, and agricultural land increased atmospheric methane at an unprecedented rate in the early ...

A federal judge Tuesday ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in ...

What happened in 2025? Well, a lot. There were tariffs, breakthroughs and disappointments with AI, and a wobbly economy that sent decidedly mixed signals. There were ...

ARE DEMOCRATS back from the brink? In last year’s presidential election they lost the popular vote for the first time in two decades. Swings to the right reached double digits among Hispanics and the ...

Some of the most beautiful sights in nature are also mysterious. There are sand dunes that seem to sing and a dazzlingly pink lake in Australia. While researchers have theories for many of them, ...