A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.

U.S. speedskater Jordan Stolz had a lot of hype accompanying him in these Winter Olympic Games. He's now got two gold medals, one silver, with one event to go.

An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

Canada was long the top dog of Olympic women's hockey. But with a win Thursday, the Americans could do more than earn a third gold medal — they could prove the sport's balance of power has shifted.

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name. Opponents say the legislation would disenfranchise millions of voters.

Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.

A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but can currently live with family members who do.

A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being sent to the front lines.

It is likely we have only seen the tip of the iceberg compared to what the police have seen.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the first senior royal to be arrested in modern history.

King releases statement after Thames Valley Police says a man is in custody and officers are searching addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk.

What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Ashley Warren is the first person in England and Wales to be prosecuted under XL bully laws.

It comes as US President Donald Trump criticises Sir Keir Starmer's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands.

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested following the discovery at Little Eden Holiday Park.

Trump said it "looks like" Hamas will disarm, even though there are signs the group is regrouping.

Plenty of blame to go around, says Isaacman

NASA has released the findings from its investigation of the ill-fated crewed Boeing Starliner mission of 2024, and while it still isn't sure of the root technical causes, it's admitted that trusting Boeing to do a thorough job appears to have been a mistake. …

AI model said to show improved reasoning capabilities

If you want an even better AI model, there could be reason to celebrate. Google, on Thursday, announced the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, characterizing the model's arrival as "a step forward in core reasoning."…

Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops

The US Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation’s CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…

FBI warns these cyber-physical attacks are on the rise

Thieves stole more than $20 million from compromised ATMs last year using a malware-assisted technique that the FBI says is on the uptick across the United States.…

From AI conflation to thin evidence, a new report calls many climate claims greenwashing

Some AI advocates claim that bots hold the secret to mitigating climate change. But research shows that the reality is far different, as new datacenters cause power utilities to burn even more fossil fuels to meet their insatiable demand for energy.…

A hundred days a year in the air doesn't come cheap

Opinion Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a singular mission to stand out among tech CEOs. Big talk on sales, profits, and tech potential is not enough. His gift for edgy one-liners takes him to places where execs of the past would have scarcely dared to go. Say hello to allusions to goose-stepping and innate Western superiority that we assume have audiences rolling in the aisles.…

The real deal or another research project overblown?

Cybersecurity researchers say they've spotted the first Android malware strain that uses generative AI to improve performance once installed. But it may be only a proof of concept.…

IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup

Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday.…

Rush is on to push forward sympathetic candidates from both parties ahead of midterms

Meta is among tech giants reportedly funding US politicians friendly to the AI industry, as concerns mount over a huge expansion in datacenter building and the effects of AI on everyday life.…

Emails show all discussed networking and biz interests with the sex offender throughout the 2010s

Cybersecurity conference DEF CON has added three men named in the Epstein files to its list of banned individuals. They are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.…

Everyone's trying to get mileage as F1 undergoes huge technical changes.

Google says 3.1 Pro is ready for "your hardest challenges."

Where we're racing, we don't need roads.

The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.

"It raises the possibility that social motivation plays a role in why some dogs end up learning object names."

Report: Verizon's goal is "immediate unlock for all payment methods really soon."

Two of Ars' favorite electric vehicles are now available for not very much money.

EPA sued for abandoning its mission to protect public health.

The 26.3 updates were mostly invisible; these changes are more significant.

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.