John Timmer

6 days ago | arstechnica.com | John Timmer

Second supermassive black hole is a long way from the galaxy's core. John Timmer – May 9, 2025 9:37 am | Back in 2024, a system set up to identify objects that suddenly brighten found something unusual. Unfortunately, the automated system that was supposed to identify it couldn't figure out what it was looking at.

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | John Timmer

Five clusters of genes from different organisms put into a single bacterial strain. John Timmer – May 7, 2025 4:50 pm | Over the last century or more, humanity has been developing an ever-growing list of chemicals that have never been seen by Earth's creatures. Many of these chemicals end up being toxic contaminants that we'd love to get rid of, but we struggle to purify them from the environment or break them down once we do.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | John Timmer

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1 week ago | arstechnica.com | John Timmer

Odd letter ostensibly about funding asks Harvard "why is there so much HATE?" John Timmer – May 6, 2025 12:19 pm | The ongoing war between the Trump administration and Harvard University has taken a new twist, with the government sending Harvard a letter that, amid what appears to be a stream-of-consciousness culture war rant, announces that the university will not be receiving any further research grants.

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | John Timmer

Knog's Scout gives bikes a motion-sensitive alarm and Bluetooth tracking. John Timmer – May 6, 2025 10:54 am | We've reviewed some pretty expensive bikes here at Ars, and one of the consistent concerns we see in the comments is the fear of theft. That's a widely shared fear, based on a whole bunch of videos that describe how to hide an AirTag tracker where a potential bike thief won't notice it.