2025-11-13

Tracking the winds that have turned Mars into a planet of dust

Tracking winds across Mars' surface and their association with dust storms. [...]

2025-11-13

What if the aliens come and we just can’t communicate?

Ars chats with particle physicist Daniel Whiteson about his new book Do Aliens Speak Physics? [...]

2025-11-13

Amazon rebrands its Starlink competitor to Amazon Leo

Amazon is making its satellite communication network a bit more official with a rebrand. The company has announced that Project Kuiper will now be called "Amazon Leo," a nod to the fact that [...]

2025-11-13

Our favorite 2025 advent calendars from Lego, Pokémon, Funko Pop, Magna-Tiles and more

Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]

2025-11-13

British Churches Are Putting Their Faith in Heat Pumps

Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition. [...]

2025-11-13

Tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to sites of inflammation

Tiny chips can be powered by infrared light if they're near the brain's surface. [...]

2025-11-12

Quantum computing tech keeps edging forward

IBM follows through on its June promises, plus more trapped ion news. [...]

2025-11-12

OpenAI reboots ChatGPT experience with GPT-5.1 after mixed reviews of GPT-5

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1.OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. [...]

2025-11-12

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open [...]