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How to Create an Office Wellness Room Your Colleagues Will Love
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How to Create an Office Wellness Room Your Colleagues Will Love

By Maricar Santos/Working Mother

A beginner’s guide to choosing the right motorcycle gear
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A beginner’s guide to choosing the right motorcycle gear

By Seth Richards/Motorcyclist

Essential survival items for your go-bag
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Essential survival items for your go-bag

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

Three ways to use rain water in a survival situation
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Three ways to use rain water in a survival situation

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

Make instant ice and beer slushies
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Make instant ice and beer slushies

By Marissa Shieh

How To Build A Soft Robot Hand
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How To Build A Soft Robot Hand

By Andrew Terranova

The TiVo mascot on a blue screen.
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Supersize your TiVo

By Dave Prochnow

Science by design(ers)
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Science by design(ers)

By Dave Prochnow

An Insider Account Of The Hack That Saved Apollo 13
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An Insider Account Of The Hack That Saved Apollo 13

A woman in a red bathing suit sitting on the floor by a sliding glass door, staring at the ocean outside.
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How to fix a sliding door without taking it down

By John Kennedy

A woman sitting behind a laptop, looking somewhat amused.
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This free tool can reveal who is behind any internet domain

By John Kennedy

a sign made of tape that points to free stuff
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Where to find the best free stuff online

By David Nield

A screen attached to a Roku, displaying various streaming apps.
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7 tips and tricks to master your Roku

By David Nield

A person holding an iPhone while sitting in front of a laptop, possibly setting up a burner phone number.
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You should get a burner phone number (even if you are not a spy)

By David Nield

A person using a laptop and viewing the Popular Science website in inverted colors, which helps people with vision impairments.
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Built-in tools and extensions to make web browsing easier for people with vision impairments

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Hand inserting SD card into DSLR camera
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How to recover deleted photos from a memory card

By Whitson Gordon

survival garden
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Start planning now for a healthy crop of homegrown food

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

Code
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How to open broken computer files

By David Nield

Music apps for your smartphone.
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These music-recording apps are your first step to winning a Grammy

By Mallory Johns

Kid with glasses using computer in a living room
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Your guide to kid-proofing a computer

By David Nield

A person lying on a white mattress in dim light, with one arm across their forehead, one arm on their stomach, and a phone next to them.
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The best way to prevent arm pain from using your phone too much

By Hannah Seo

Hand in rubber gloves with a cleaning product sprayer
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Master odor removal with a little help from science

By Dan Seitz

Person camping in the outdoors with feet out of tent.
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How to prep your gear for the first camping trip of the season

By Alisha McDarris

A person in a red plaid shirt sitting in front of a laptop computer, gesturing with their hands.
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5 sleuthing skills that’ll reveal the age of any web page

By John Kennedy

How to manage subscriptions for smartphone apps and save money quickly
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How to manage subscriptions for smartphone apps and save money quickly

By David Nield

iPhone on a wooden table with a newsletter on the screen
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4 ways to keep newsletters from destroying your inbox

By David Nield

A woman in a pink jacket outside near some trees, listening to music on a pair of Thalia headphones.
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Instantly improve Spotify by organizing your playlists

By Harry Guinness

Google Chrome user profile feature screenshot
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Chrome user profiles are a powerful productivity tool

By RK Pendergrass

French Kiss Cocktail
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How to melt, mix, and balance chocolate in cocktails

By Dan Q. Dao/Saveur

Kids and tablet
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How to set parental controls on any phone or tablet

By David Nield

Smartphone using the app Google PhotoScan to scan a printed photo
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Scan and print anything from your phone

By David Nield

A fisherman with a white beard tying a knot in some fishing line.
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The strongest fishing knots you can tie

By John Merwin/Field & Stream

A woman in a blue dress looking away and down to the side, as eight hands reach out to her from the edge of the frame.
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How to break free of the bystander effect and help someone in trouble

By Tyler Santora

What to do when Google doesn’t have the answers you need
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What to do when Google doesn’t have the answers you need

By David Nield

A plastic piece depicting a menacing plastic dragon on a board game
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Organize and accessorize your board games with 3D printing

By RK Pendergrass

A person holding their phone and looking at a photo on Instagram.
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How to shoot great Instagram photos

By Harry Guinness

Hand holding a phone with a map in front of an empty road.
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No cell service? These are the best offline apps.

By David Nield

Plex TV
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7 Smart TV apps every viewer should check out

By David Nield

Two people facing away from the camera while pointing at their iPhones.
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How to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on your phone or computer

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Hand holding Amazon Fire TV remote towards TV screen
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7 tips and tricks to make the most of your Amazon Fire TV

By David Nield

A lean to shelter built on a rock side.
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Three ways to build a winter survival shelter

By Jim Baird/Field & Stream

Person holding a clock
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Tech tips for working with people in different time zones

By David Nield

A Black man in glasses and a t-shirt sitting on a marble wall, looking at a phone.
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The best apps for dealing with anxiety

By RK Pendergrass

Kid playing with blocks
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4 fun techniques to keep kids learning while they’re stuck at home

By Mary Kearl

Orange flames on wood
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Everything you need to know to start a fire

By Popular Science Team

A MacBook displays a loading Gmail icon.
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How to delete your old email address without losing everything

By Dan Seitz

iPhone X
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Find out just how fast your phone is

By David Nield

Night sky photography
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Cold weather is the best time to look at—and photograph—the night sky

By Stan Horaczek

Fomes fomentarius fungus
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The two types of fungi you want in your fire-starting kit

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

Two friends taking a selfie.
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Make your own Instagram filters

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Vintage looking chromed headphones on a table.
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How to hit pause on your music streaming subscriptions

By David Nield

Bearded man wearing a surgical mask on the street
Health

5 must-know tips for safely wearing a mask over facial hair

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Person on the floor browsing YouTube videos on a smartphone.
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Learn to use picture-in-picture on all your devices

By David Nield

A person using a pen to write in a paper notebook, with a phone on the table next to them for storing digital notes.
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Turn your handwritten documents into searchable digital notes

By David Nield

Green camping tent in the middle of a snowy mountain
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How to stay warm while sleeping in the frigid outdoors

By Alisha McDarris

A person spraying a can of WD40 in a garage.
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20 ingenious uses for WD-40

By Bill Heavey/Field & Stream

A man in a gray t-shirt removing or putting on a surgical face mask by only touching the ear loops.
Health

Why you shouldn’t ever wear your mask around your neck

By Erin Fennessy

Person filling up water bottle at kitchen sink with tap water.
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Simple, at-home tests can check your air and water for contaminants

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A young man under rd and purple light, wearing a computer headset and touching his microphone while looking at a screen.
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Online classes are difficult for the hard of hearing. Here’s how to fix that.

By Eli Reiter

maple syrup
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Make your own maple syrup without harming the trees

By Tim MacWelch/ Outdoor Life

Bowl of cheese sauce in a large plate of nachos.
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Scientific tips for making perfect nacho cheese

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

snowball slingshot
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Make a snowball slingshot and rule your neighborhood with an icy fist

By William Gurstelle

Two people wearing cloth face masks with their arms around each other on a New York City sidewalk on a sunny day.
Health

How to wear a face mask for maximum protection

By Erin Fennessy

Turn that old bread into pizza in less than 30 minutes
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Turn that old bread into pizza in less than 30 minutes

By Farideh Sadeghin/Saveur