Artist’s concept of a warped galaxy.Image: Chao Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape. Scientists have known since the 1950s that the spiral-shaped Milky Way’s disk is warped, bending by thousands of light-years at its outskirts. Now, researchers have created a…

Photo: Getty Images Few things are more annoying when surfing the internet than some random video autoplaying in one of your 10,000 open tabs. Thankfully, Firefox users will finally be able to automatically disable autoplay starting next month. According to Mozilla, the feature will go live on March 19, once Firefox 66 launches on both…

Photo: Getty / Alex Wong A few months after Trump’s inauguration, an attorney appointed by the president to a top post at the Justice Department produced a memo in which he outlined the administration’s views on congressional oversight. The memo stated simply that, because Democrats were in the minority, they had no legal authority to…

Good News From Mars: The InSight Lander Is on Track to Start Collecting Data Next Month The U.S. government may be in partial shutdown mode, but operations to configure instruments… Read more Read On Earth, seismometers are buried about four feet underground to protect them from the elements. The InSight probe isn’t capable of digging…

Photo: Getty Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner and public health services agency are reportedly investigating how the private data of a patient who had an abortion may have landed in the hands of a harasser. In an anonymous Facebook post, a woman from Ireland said that after she had a medical abortion and an internal scan…

Photo: Carsten Koall (Getty) The future of artificial intelligence and war sounds dizzyingly high-tech, but that’s not always the case. The truth, for at least one multimillion-dollar San Francisco startup and its customers Google and the U.S. military, is that building cutting-edge AI apparently involves a group of old-fashioned human beings grinding through mountains of…