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Weighing in: Physicists cut upper limit on neutrino’s mass in half

Isaac Asimov dubbed neutrinos "ghost particles." John Updike immortalized them in verse. They've been the subject of several Nobel Prize citations, because these...

Amazon orders 100,000 electric trucks to fight climate change

Amazon has ordered 100,000 electric trucks from startup Rivian, the e-commerce giant announced Thursday. The order is part of Amazon's larger pledge—also announced today—to...

We can phase out fossil fuels fast without having a burst of warming

Burning fossil fuels spews carbon dioxide into the air, which warms the climate through the greenhouse effect (as if you didn’t know that)....

Facebook and Google have ad trackers on your streaming TV, studies find

Modern TV, coming to you over the Internet instead of through cable or over the air, has a modern problem: all of your...

World’s most destructive botnet returns with stolen passwords and email in tow

If you've noticed an uptick of spam that addresses you by name or quotes real emails you've sent or received in the past,...

In India, you don’t need a Google phone to have a Google Assistant

India is an enormous developing market for international companies like Google—who list Hindi as the second most-used Google Assistant language, after English—but many...

Comcast promised not to raise prices—guess what happened next

Comcast offered customers in Utah a "lifetime" price guarantee in order to compete against Google Fiber, then later violated the lifetime promise by...

Forget the marshmallow test; this could be the real secret to kids’ future success

Kindergarten children whose teachers rate them as being highly inattentive tend to earn less in their 30s than classmates who are rated highly...

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