Tuesday, October 6, 2026
ArchiveFormer German spy chief arrested on espionage charges. He made at least seven trips to Russia after leaving office.
August Hanning ran Germany's foreign intelligence service. Prosecutors say he took at least seven trips to Russia after leaving the job, and have now arrested him for attempted treason.
Physics Nobel 2026: You Will Hate Me for Saying This
The prize went to a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice that catches neutrinos from across the universe. Hossenfelder explains what IceCube found — and why she isn't entirely thrilled about it.
Mosquitoes are a choice
Malaria kills roughly 600,000 people a year, and the technology to end it is already sitting on the shelf. The case made here is that the last obstacle is nerve, not science.
A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Generations of cryptographers may have been attacking a shuffled deck. Researchers now argue the pages were bound out of order, which rearranges what the drawings were ever trying to say.
500+ U.S. Citizens Detained at Gunpoint in Immigration Enforcement
ProPublica found over 500 cases where U.S. citizens were detained by immigration authorities—many at gunpoint or in handcuffs—despite having documentation proving citizenship.