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No, the rocket isn't about to blow up—it's just physics in action.

It seems we're in for a wild ride aboard Mr. Wednesday's magic carousel.

Jonathan Swift miscalculated some of the scaling in his 1726 satirical masterpiece.

Video: For years, Ashkan Soltani has warned of Facebook's privacy-eroding tendencies.

Hardware is mostly unchanged, but new firmware promises better performance.

A 20-day battery life defines this unassuming, $129 tracker.

Acclaimed band sits with Ars after making its latest amazing LP from scratch (seriously).

Biologist Mark Laidre dubbed his hypothesis "private parts for private property."

A deal with a fashion brand isn't going to fix a dead hardware ecosystem.

Secretive, wealthy Sackler family is at the heart of the opioid crisis, lawsuit alleges.

Tweaked for 2019, the Toyota Sienna will fit the bill for most families.

Four Audi executives were indicted on Thursday.

Verizon's call blocking previously required $3-per-month Call Filter service.

WashPost: Amount expected to be "much larger" than Google's $22.5M deal from 2012.

"Are we there yet" predates the first long car ride, but help may be on the way.

Rubio bill would give Congress and FTC 27 months to issue actual privacy rules.

Point not just to the lies, but who's behind them, researchers suggest.

December's Patch Tuesday will contain final updates to the smartphone platform.

"The road ahead is very difficult," Tesla CEO writes in email to employees.

We're not sure why, and it could already be over, but more stuff's hit the planet.

We asked; you delivered: Here are some of the most memorable Ars stories of all time.

Russia is less and less a space super power.

"I suggest that you focus on the problem in front of you, rather than what is behind."

From "code is speech" to Dynamex's labor law test, Ars saw many legal landmarks in 20 years.

"This was definitely our top choice, I would say by quite a bit."

Huge analysis shows how the answer changes depending on the question.

To elude emulators, banking trojan would trigger only when infected devices moved.

Memories from a youth spent in arcades and the reveal of Mortal Kombat 11.

Early Android Q build shows off lots of permissions controls, plus a dark UI.

"It didn't even bother them, as if I was nothing," plaintiff told Ars.

Google gets IP and part of Fossil's R&D team to beef up its wearable efforts.

It will also cost—brace yourself—$1,500.

Flying is incredibly carbon intensive, and jet fuel is hard to replace.

Total donations now amount to over $300,000 over 12 years.

Chinese companies flouting US sanctions would lose access to American technology.

Plus deals on Assassin's Creed Odyssey, 4K Roku TVs, USB-C cables, and more.

The third installment in thriller franchise looks almost as good as original film.

The update is still rolling out at a snail's pace.

Verizon won't charge spam fee for K-12 users, but it won't kill fee completely.

Health officials went to community doctors and rabbis to thwart disease spread.

Ars' IT guru Jason Marlin has 20+ years in information infrastructure—game's changed a bit.

Replacing infrastructure with clean tech at end-of-life could halt warming fast.

Room contained unreleased items that have filtered into the in-game economy.

"The government is not the enemy, they’re our friend."

Widely circulated "Collection #1" was used in automated credential stuffing attacks.

Hagfish can produce one liter of slime in mere fractions of a second.

Orbital mechanics sometimes produces unusual results.

Cortana is seeing a productivity focus; search is being unified with Office 365.

An electric-vehicle transition requires places to plug in.

Huawei stole robotic tech from T-Mobile, according to a civil jury.