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Gathered the best sales, we have, from discounts on the entire Skywalker Saga to Star Wars decals.

Why the “everyone's doing it” argument is specious.

From Alderaan to Kijimi, Sith lords sure do love to blast planets to smithereens. So how powerful are *Star Wars*’ doomsday weapons anyway?

I gave this e-bike a 130-mile tour of NYC’s fender-shaking streets, parks, and potholes.

Network speeds are holding up despite the crush of internet traffic. Freed from rules, broadband providers have cut investment in their systems.

Covid Coach, from the National Center for PTSD, offers exercises and resources for dealing with uncertainty, isolation, and unemployment.

Researchers want to know if the disease is seasonal, like colds. But while heat and humidity harm the virus in the lab, that’s not the same as real life.

The Instagram-friendly DTC startup wanted to be the Warby Parker of cereal. One year in, the company says business in booming.

Empty highways clear the way for speedier construction projects, but loss of fuel taxes could bring them to a halt.

This home theater upgrade comes with our favorite streaming player inside, and it makes movies and shows sound damn good.

A recent infection, which managed to plunder a company's network within hours, demonstrates why the malware has become so prevalent.

Last week, during a visit to the Mayo Clinic, the vice president went mask-less. Social media quickly took note.

Stay-at-home orders mean less traffic and fewer serious crashes, saving lives and money. Plus, Elon Musk does it again.

The Hubble constant predicts how rapidly space should grow—but astronomical observations don't line up. Here are the top ideas about what might be going on.

If you’re craving more from your video chats, think outside the box. From Second Life to Online Town, there are plenty of places to gather while staying at home.

Andrew Ibrahim was just finishing his surgical residency in Michigan when the coronavirus surge hit. It took a lifetime’s lessons to face the challenge.

I got the app for its easy photo backups. I didn’t realize it would become a precious window to the past—or a lifeline in a time of existential despair.

Every year on the telescope's birthday, we're the ones who get a gift: a brilliant and never-before-seen snapshot of the cosmos.

Explore the bouncy behavior of light beams by constructing a high-tech camera obscura.

'Field of Dreams' isn't the only good fantasy story set around a baseball diamond.

Plus: A malicious GIF, Android malware, and more of the week's top security news.

Alaska's frozen earth is a cryo chamber for ancient bone and bacteria specimens, and it sequesters carbon too. But climate change is causing its collapse.

As with modern vaccine skepticism and the panic over cancer-causing power lines, the idea was hatched in a well-respected scientific journal.

If you're feeling cooped up and antsy for a more colorful look, here's how to do it without wrecking your hair.

Use your phone and your time in quarantine to declutter your life, and make some money.

The coronavirus pandemic is further exposing a gulf in the health statistics of white and black Americans that has existed for decades.

From a discount on the Google Pixel 3A to price cuts on videogames, we hope these deals will help stymie the stir-crazies.

Your iPhone can’t read your face if half of it is covered. While the new iOS 13.5 update won't fix that, it's likely to make logging in less of a nuisance.

The 'Last of Us' follow-up is now slated for June 19. That's pretty soon considering it looked like it might be on hold indefinitely.

An early-morning tweet punctuates a week in which the CEO has complained loudly and often about coronavirus-induced lockdowns.

The photographer says her animal subjects, which she also considers her family, are helping her survive the long stretches of quarantine.

Icann, the internet's governing body, rejected a proposal to sell control of the .org registry to a newly formed private equity group.

Essential workers are banding together to protest the companies’ responses to Covid-19. But as one organizer says, they’re fighting against giants.

As unemployment surges, calls to cancel rent are growing louder. In New York, thousands are planning a rent strike for May, while landlords ask for a federal bailout.

John Ioannidis laid bare the foibles of medical science. Now medical science is returning the favor.

Google's second-generation true wireless earbuds look, sound, and feel better than Apple's best-selling in-ears.

The Kremlin's path toward censorship, surveillance, and repression has many more layers than meets the eye.

How the ‘gambler’s fallacy’ and anchoring bias influence strike zones.

Sneaky developers are charging big bucks for basic apps. Here's how to spot a scam in sheep's clothing.

Plus: Apple’s iTunes evolution, Facebook’s ad policy, and a health care celebration gone wrong.

Today, petroleum producers around the world will start shutting down wells after the Covid-19 pandemic caused demand to plummet. What took them so long?

This week, Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan tell us why they are planning their own critical care decisions now, well before Covid-19 forces them to do so under pressure.

Human rights reporter Azimjon Askarov is being held at a prison in Kyrgyzstan, where he is at a higher risk of being exposed to Covid-19.

The Pure Humidify + Cool will leave you feeling both healthier and refreshed—all thanks to one machine.

The dawn of a pandemic—as seen through the news and social media posts that vanished from China’s internet.

There’s been a lot of heat but not much light on whether the antimalarial drug helps coronavirus patients. That’s because we still need a big clinical trial.

Makers of facial-recognition technology scramble to adapt to a world where people routinely cover their faces to avoid spreading disease.

The nonprofit has identified hundreds of profiles that espouse hate, with little attempt from the gaming platform to stop them.

Scientists found 2 million microplastic particles in a square meter of sediment, as currents drag debris into seafloor versions of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.