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Halved grapes boost magnetic fields, paving way for alternative microwave resonators for quantum sensing devices.

Redmond's packing of Office with security, cloud computing services under scrutiny.

A ferromagnetic elastomer" sheet can bulge and bend under magnetic influences.

We, Neanderthals, and Denisovans all have extra copies of a starch-digesting enzyme.

The games that found us in 2024, from 2003 space sims to 2022 backyard survival.

How I tackled takeout, spices, and meal ideas with spreadsheets and Glide.

What do eating rocks, rat genitals, and Willy Wonka have in common? AI, of course.

Ars looks back at the top stories of the year.

Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are sheer perfection as an amnesiac former assassin and PI who foil a terrorist plot.

From wacky crime capers and dystopian video game adaptions to sweeping historical epics, 2024 had a little of everything

Help increases our charity haul before the sweepstakes ends.

440-pound 1980s behemoth rescued from an Osaka restaurant days before demolition.

No, four figures does not get you a numpad.

Flu is rising around the country, but Louisiana is well ahead of the curve.

Intrusion caused medical errors and diversion of emergency services.

Ars chats with Dune: Prophecy lead cinematographer Pierre Gill about color palettes, lighting, and other challenges.

Half of US companies don't know the origins of chips they buy, official said.

if the deal goes through it would create the world's third-largest OEM in 2026.

"Elon get those rocket ships going because we want to reach Mars before the end of my term."

This year's list features quite a bit of horror mixed in with the usual blockbuster fare-plus smaller hidden gems.

A2RL admits that this is a hard problem, and that's refreshing.

A relatively light year still had its fair share of interactive standouts.

Boat collision left Charlotte stranded at the surface and in danger of predation.

Researchers found a fossilized seascape while studying the impact of a volcanic eruption.

Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?

This is how to do a remaster.

ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine.

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.

Most owners still won't be refunded for the emotional support toy.

UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.

Let's hope Netflix fixes its live buffering problems beforehand.

Aluminum AirTag case replaces coin cell with 2 AA Lithium batteries for extended lifespan.

The most direct push for Google's Gemini chat so far.

OEMs also called out for selling data they collect on drivers.

Staff worried they were no longer helping people and the ban would lead to deaths.

Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.

Big Mama VPN tied to network which offers access to residential IP addresses.

Compute costs scale with the square of the input size. That's not great.

"Quite simply, we want to find the birthplace of the solar wind."

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.

Home Assistant's voice device is a $60 box that's both focused and evolving.

Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.

"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.

Fighting game YouTuber now fighting Google over monstrous" post-hack revenue loss.

"A-Life" fixes will ensure even more randomness in an already odd fallout zone.

Drone sightings cause worry; FBI said it hadn't "identified anything anomalous."

Not as serious as the 13th/14th-gen voltage problems, but the fixes are similar.

Audi's mid-sized electric SUV is now on sale in the US, and we've tested it.

"Maybe, maybe, maybe today, maybe soon. I think it's very soon."

Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.