WWII motorcycle and soldiers emerge from river muck in Hungary
History continues to resurface as unprecedented heatwaves and droughts in Europe push the Danube River to its lowest levels on record. In addition to the dozens of World War II…
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We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked
Solar storms, like the one in August 1972 that hit during the gap between the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 missions, throw bursts of protons intense enough to raise an…
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven…
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by…
Read an WWII Army private’s letters back home for the first time
The United Service Organizations (USO) has thousands of pieces of military memorabilia in its collections, but some of these archival items offer particularly intimate looks into the lives of former…
NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA has been taking pictures of the Moon for decades, collecting a wealth of data. This false-color picture is…
I Love the 90s! captures the first digital decade in rad detail
The current digital landscape is changing by the day, and arguably not for the better. An ongoing inundation of AI slop, gamified search engines, and toxic social media ecosystems has…
DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day…
Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Google’s Chrome browser has added a new feature that could go a long way in preventing a form of account takeover that’s grown increasingly common as users adopt two-factor authentication,…
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole actually doesn’t devour everything
Inside almost every known galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole, and our home Milky Way galaxy is no exception. Located about 26,000 light-years from Earth, Sagittarius A* anchors millions of…