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Even hands-free, phones and their apps cause dangerously distracted driving
April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
Make it snow! Researchers explore sci-fi scenarios of human weather control
From privatized weather to giant, cloud-seeding robots, 10 sci-fi scenarios are put to an (analytical) test.
Stellarator fusion reactor gets new life thanks to a creative magnet workaround
Developed over 70 years ago, the stellarator has long been ignored in favor of options like tokamak reactors. It might be time for its 'quasiaxisymmetry' to shine.
How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes
A new whitepaper offers a detailed look at how Z340 was decrypted after 51 years.
Apple’s ‘next big thing’ could be a robot butler
The autonomous bot could one day follow you around and clean your room.
New fossils of tiny, toothy early mammals could be a major missing link
Jurassic molars and middle-ear bones offer clues to mammal evolution.
Landfills bake the planet even more than we realized
Aerial monitoring finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.
Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’
Well, the notes start coming and they don't stop coming.
Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
New internet laws requiring age verification for porn and social media may be contributing to a surge in VPN adoption, experts say.