Jennifer Ouellette

10 pts The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data…

8 pts The trailers for HBO's DC Universe series Lanterns teased a show that eschewed the usual superhero hijinks in favor of a gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives or Slow Horses. Personally, I liked the change. My verdict: Ignore the review bombing; it's wonderful. The season wrapped with an…

Mike Flanagan defies the odds with a re-imagining of Stephen King's classic that is well worth watching.

I will take my place as the conqueror, a sorcerer, a king."

Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.

Lindsey Fitzharris chats with Ars about her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes.

New contemporary sculpture replaces the globe in the original Roman artifact with a cup as a tribute.

The end of the year is fast approaching and with it, the pre-Christmas release of Dune: Part Three , the final installment in Denis Villeneuve's

10 pts The end of the year is fast approaching and with it, the pre-Christmas release of Dune: Part Three, the final installment in Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed adaptation of sci-fi author Frank Herbert's novel(s). Warner Bros. gave us a broody and haunting extended teaser in March and a July trailer jam-packed with…

We have to be ready for whatever's coming next. If we lose in here, there won't be a home to go back to."