Working with Formula 1 race car manufacturers and employing aerospace materials, a Swiss firm has developed what they claim is the world’s lightest wheelchair, with a frame weighing in at just 3.3 pounds.

Lucas has been waiting all day and night for a new friend to fly in his web. No sign of anyone yet...It's getting late and Lucas found book of scary stories to keep him entertained!

The good news about the Facebook data breach is that it affected fewer people than previously believed — a rarity, in the cybersecurity realm. The bad news is that the types of data stolen were quite personal, and could have bad consequences for the 14 million people affected.

For Ars staffers, IRC led to love, marriage, and trolling.

For the first time, a species of fish has demonstrated evidence of possible self-awareness by passing the famous mirror test.

Everyone’s social nightmare might have lasting effects on relationships.

A sensational Bloomberg story about a major hardware hack was swiftly denied. But the journalists aren’t backing down

Our ability to see colors develops in the womb. Now scientists have replicated that process, which could help accelerate efforts to cure colorblindness and lead to new treatments for diseases.

Rice is a mainstay of dozens of different cuisines around the world, and pretty much the fuel that keeps uni students alive (alongside instant noodles).

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents, and other dispatches from the point where genetics intersects with economics.

It turned out that there is the possibility of transmitting information with the help of nonmetricity waves and transferring it spatially without distortions.

Today, the EU held a routine vote on regulations for self-driving cars, when something decidedly out of the ordinary happened... The autonomous vehicle rules contained a clause that affirmed that "data generated by autonomous transport are automatically generated and are by nature not creative, thus making copyright protection or the right on databases inapplicable." This is pretty inoffensive stuff. Copyright protects creative work, not factual data, and the telemetry generated by your car -- self-driving or not -- is not copyrighted.

Scientists break the rules of reproduction, so what does it mean for the future of sex?

Missing dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered with a bone saw in a “Pulp Fiction”-style killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, it was claimed today.  Turkish authorities believe he was murdered on orders from “the highest levels of the royal court” in Riyadh, according to the New York Times, citing a senior official.

Many of us are familiar with the idea of stripping to our pants, opening a beer and watching TV. But in Finland ‘Pantsdrunk’ has been elevated to an official activity

Russian Soyuz rocket's booster malfunctions after launch, forcing NASA's Nick Hague and his Russian colleague to make a "ballistic" descent back to Earth

Instagram says its new technology proactively detects bullying in photos and captions.

Before Hurricane Michael, no Category 4 storm had hit the Panhandle since 1851 — when records were first kept. The storm was just below Category 5 status when it arrived.

Newly declassified documents show why the Americans and the Soviets came so close to war in 1973.

On the slopes of the Himalayas, workers at the world’s first biodynamic tea farm wait patiently until the planets align to pick India’s most expensive tea.

Facebook knows us well enough to know the truth: We don’t care enough about our privacy to stop using it.

Just some solar flares getting their groove on.

When cities lack the paths pedestrians need, people vote with their feet

Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different.

Really, Google? I know not many of us used your Google+ social network, but those of us who did use it really, really liked it.

Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?

Electronics firms must use unique codes or force users to generate their own passwords for gadgets

Arabella. Lark & Roe. Mae. NuPro. Small Parts. You might not know it from their names, but these brands all belong to Amazon.

Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was remedied in March 2018.

Searching a smartphone is different from searching luggage. Our smartphones carry our innermost thoughts, intimate pictures, sensitive workplace documents and private messages.