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April 9, 2026
Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals
Rare event suggests relational dynamics may play a role in collective violence, along with cultural markers.
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April 8, 2026
How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
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April 6, 2026
What Memento reveals about human nature, 25 years later
Director Christopher Nolan's breakout film explores themes of the nature of memory and personal identity.
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April 3, 2026
Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability
Ice Age hunter-gatherer "were intentionally relying on random outcomes in repeatable, rule-based ways."
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April 1, 2026
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more.
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March 31, 2026
He-Man gets an origin story in Masters of the Universe trailer
"Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world."
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March 31, 2026
It's a race against time to save Krypto in Supergirl trailer
Have these villains not seen John Wick?
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March 31, 2026
What's the best cabin layout for aircraft evacuation?
The key is to evenly distribute elderly passengers, who move more slowly, among the aircraft cabins.
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March 30, 2026
What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.
Rachel Hartigan on her new book, Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life.
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March 26, 2026
Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.
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March 25, 2026
How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon.
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March 23, 2026
Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help
Undergraduate's prototype conductive nail polish could turn long fingernails into touchscreen styluses.
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March 22, 2026
There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40
Sure, it's cheesy in many respects, but its central mythology still resonates even decades later.
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March 19, 2026
Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America
Radiocarbon results suggest a single origin and rapid diffusion through cultural transition networks.
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March 18, 2026
Peter faces a new life cycle in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
“Sometimes Spider-Man has to do the hard thing, even if it breaks Peter Parker’s heart.”
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March 17, 2026
Paul Atreides faces the cost of his holy war in Dune: Part 3 teaser
"War feeds on itself. The more I fight, the more our enemies fight back."
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March 16, 2026
The science of how fireflies stay in sync
Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes.
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March 13, 2026
Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer
"That truth will upend the established order of the entire world. If you do this, there's no undoing it."
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March 11, 2026
Don't lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don't panic
Highest risk of part of tongue being torn off is with temps between -5° and -15° C (23° to 5 °F).
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March 10, 2026
Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."
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March 9, 2026
Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem
Falling cats in the study also seemed to show a marked preference for turning to the right.
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March 8, 2026
Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
"I'm gonna take this city back."
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March 7, 2026
Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"
Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
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March 6, 2026
How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
Burr Oak Cemetery is the final resting place of Emmett Till and blues singer Willie Dixon, among others.
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March 5, 2026
The Boys S5 trailer tees up a bloody final season
"My power is absolute. At heights no one ever dreamed of. But I have a bigger destiny."
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March 5, 2026
Lanterns teaser swaps superhero hijinks for gritty realism
DC's Green Lantern is reimagined as part True Detective, part Slow Horses, and we're here for it.
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March 4, 2026
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.
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March 3, 2026
What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
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March 2, 2026
Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed
Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game.
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February 27, 2026
The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirical sci-fi film.
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