Engineering

A cybercrime campaign called GlassWorm is hiding malware in invisible characters and spreading it through software that millions of developers rely on

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud

A small design flaw in the medals for the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina turned a durability promise into a very public stress test

Coding for the rest of us finally feels possible now that tools like Claude Code turn plain English into working software

A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes

A new paper shows AI emerging as a tool that helps scientists test ideas, navigate literature and refine experiments

Data from 11,587 cities show that, rain or shine, some places are just better for bikes and pedestrians

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the physics of cacio e pepe

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action

Refreezing the melting sea ice in the Arctic is more complicated than you would think. The U.K. is funding geoengineering experiments like this one to curb the effects of climate change.