Former NAACP legal defense chief says businesses are not living up to racial equity promises

Werner Herzog narrated a documentary about space—and talks to Ars about it

Could humans eventually fly to exoplanets on massive “generational” spaceships? Last Exit: Space explores such a hypothesis with intriguing and sometimes darkly hilarious results. Last Exit: Space is a new documentary on Discovery+ that explores the possibility of humans colonizing planets beyond Earth. Since it is produced and narrated by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly […]

Captured on video: Bees pipe out alarms to warn of “murder hornet” attacks

Wellesley College researchers have identified a sound that Asian honeybees use to warn the hive of a “murder hornet” attack. Asian honeybees (Apis cerana) produce a unique alarm sound to alert hive members to an attack by giant “murder hornets,” according to a new paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. For the […]

You can now buy a road-legal replica of Porsche’s mighty 917K racer

Enlarge / Yes, this 917 is wearing license plates. (credit: Icon Engineering) The UK is known for plenty of things, but it’s not all fish and chips and dodgy Russian oligarch money. It’s also surprisingly permissive when it comes to registering vehicles for public roads. Thanks to a process called “Individual Vehicle Approval, ” it’s […]