New trailers: Eternals, Welcome to Earth, The Girl in the Woods, and more

Eternals comes to theaters November 5th | Marvel So we had the big heel turn that’s been hinted at all season, plus some big moments for ...

Ancient Footprints Could Be Oldest Traces of Humans in the Americas

Opyros writes: Fossil footprints in New Mexico have been dated to 21,000-23,000 years before present. As a result, human habitation of the A...

Java's Enhancement Proposals Pursue Virtual Threads, Data Aggregate Types, and Better Communication with C Libraries

Oracle's Java magazine takes a look at some current JDK Enhancement Proposals, "the vehicle of long standing for updating the Java ...

Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: the Most Polluting Machinery Still in Legal Use

"Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly...

Crypto Platform That Mistakenly Gave $90M to Its Users Asks Them To Please Give It Back

Bleeping Computer has an update on the unique predicament of Compound, "an Ethereum-based money market protocol that enables users to e...

Is the Coronavirus Just Getting Better at Airborne Transmission?

A New York Times science/global health reporter reminds us that "Newer variants of the coronavirus like Alpha and Delta are highly cont...

The Europe-Japan mission to Mercury sends back photos of the planet’s cratered surface

The BepiColombo mission snapped this photo of Mercury on October 1st. | ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Photos from a fly-by of Mercury, the least-ex...