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Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron
Technology

2025 Audi Q6 e-Tron harnesses EV architecture from Porsche

Built on a brand-new dedicated EV platform, Audi’s new crossover gets up to 321 miles of range. 

flying with cellphone airplane mode
Science

Why do we still have to use airplane mode?

The EU lifted a ban on cell phones in 2022. Why hasn’t the US?

child got vaccine and is healthy
Science

Vaccine misinformation threatens public health

A biochemist explains how dubious claims from politicians distorts science.

a black and white photograph of NASA mission control. several men are sitting at various screens and work stations
Science

On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space

Their message to ‘all of you on the good Earth’ endures.

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored and being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessel (unseen) in the sea of Kattegat, near the City og Granaa in Jutland, Denmark, on November 20, 2024. Denmark's navy said on November 20, 2024 it was shadowing a Chinese cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea, a day after Finland and Sweden opened investigations into suspected sabotage of two severed undersea telecoms cables.
Technology

The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea internet cables is getting murkier

‘Nobody believes that these cables were severed by accident.’

Aerial shot of Viking grave site
Science

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’

‘From a research perspective, this is a small treasure trove.’

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video
Technology

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

The videos prove the new, slimmer Atlas has some of the same acrobatic abilities as its beefier predecessor.

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.
Environment

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

The primates use stone tools to crack into nutritious nuts with a range of results.

an SUV rides off road on dirt
Technology

Nissan’s revitalized Armada has cameras so comprehensive, you can (almost) drive blindfolded

The 360-degree cameras are just one way Nissan reworked its engineering with an off-road focus.

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