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An intelligence startup warns that China is exploiting Western quantum scientists for military ends. The evidence is thin, but tensions are rising.

Human rights abuse and a decimated reputation killed Hacking Team. The new owners want to rebuild.

Twitter said it would shut down any account that hasn’t logged in for six months, starting from December 11. It wasn’t ready for the backlash.

By playing with quantum entanglement, physicists hope to probe their ideas about quantum gravity for the first time.

Scientists argue we may cross the point of no return for some ecosystems in a little more than a decade.

Despite how easy it is to prevent, China continues to allow launch debris to rain down on rural towns and threaten people’s safety.

A smart bit of bait-and-switch that got past the moderators shows how the app is growing up. But it also raises questions about censorship on the platform.

With every passing year, more and more countries are launching their own space agencies to participate in a growing space economy.

The world’s leading surveillance and spyware companies gathered in Paris to meet growing demand from governments around the world.

Your space questions, answered.

Finding help can be a struggle for gamers who feel their playing has gotten out of control.

Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them.

While central bank digital currencies may address problems in other countries, the US doesn’t have those problems, according to Fed chair Jerome Powell.

Cryptocurrencies are famously energy hungry. So some researchers say the answer is a more energy-efficient form of computing.

A new pair of gamma-ray bursts includes one that’s 10 times more powerful than the previous record holder.

A new generation of specialized hardware could make drug development and material discovery orders of magnitude faster.

Your space questions, answered.

No major Democractic candidate has a presence on the wildly popular social video platform. That’s a big missed opportunity.

Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross has launched a new solar thermal venture, designed to cut climate emissions from industrial heat.

The first study of the way logs become pinned in rivers reveals that those seemingly trapped in a logjam move steadily, if slowly, downriver.

In this excerpt from her book Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, the first American woman to walk in space tells what it was like to be part of the team that designed and launched the space telescope.

These strange new sounds underscore the complexities at play when solar storm events head for Earth.

An MIT analysis finds that steady declines in battery costs will stall in the next few years.

Goldman Sachs defended itself in the Apple Card scandal by saying it did not consider gender when calculating creditworthiness. If it did, that could actually mitigate the problem.

A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?

Two new studies raise the possibility that the next Mars mission will find fossils of organic life or preserved biosignatures at Jezero crater.

Our 2020 contest for the 35 Innovators Under 35 is now open for nominations.

Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental and societal changes on Earth. The World Settlement Footprint pinpoints them with unprecedented accuracy.