Sometime around the year 1837, a strange object passed an invisible cosmic mile marker: 1,000 astronomical units from the Sun. (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the average Earth-Sun distance.) For ...
CARS.COM — Buying and owning a car for the first time is an exciting rite of passage for young drivers, but the first years of owning a car can be full of lessons learned the hard way. To help ...
Being a bunch of technology journalists who make our living on the Web, we at Ars all have a fairly intimate relationship with computers dating back to our childhood—even if for some of us, that ...
From tiny plots to wide-open "rural cemeteries" and modern "memorial parks," the evolving design of cities of the dead Before 1831, America had no cemeteries. It's not that Americans didn't bury their ...