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Kid Inventors
Projects

Three (very) young inventors using 3D printing to change the world

These designers, aged 11 to 17, have big ideas.

Navigating with GPS is making our brains lazy
Technology

Navigating with GPS is making our brains lazy

Close Google Maps to get a mental workout

The Amazon Echo and Echo Dot
Tech Hacks

20 helpful Amazon Echo voice commands for you to try

"Hey Alexa, listen up!"

We need more ‘body farms’ to figure out how corpses rot
Science

We need more ‘body farms’ to figure out how corpses rot

Research on pig carcasses and a new body farm in Florida might offer some clues

Mosquitoes and ticks are going to eat us all alive this summer
Climate Change

Mosquitoes and ticks are going to eat us all alive this summer

Bust out the bug repellant

Bottlenose dolphin
Ocean

Dolphins beat up octopuses before eating them, and the reason is kind of horrifying

In this food fight you either win or you die

This stuff melts your crappy fast fashion into fabric stronger than cotton
Environment

This stuff melts your crappy fast fashion into fabric stronger than cotton

Closing the loop

Fertilizer has saved billions of lives, but it also has a dark side
Agriculture

Fertilizer has saved billions of lives, but it also has a dark side

Excerpt: Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

bigelow space station
Private Space Flight

The factories of the future could float in space

Orbital manufacturing is already paving the way for better solar panels, faster internet, cleaner computer chips, and lab-grown human hearts

What you should know about Atlanta’s fiery bridge collapse
Vehicles

What you should know about Atlanta’s fiery bridge collapse

And you thought your commute was bad

IBM could have a solution to one of self-driving cars’ biggest problems
Self Driving

IBM could have a solution to one of self-driving cars’ biggest problems

Who should be behind the wheel, and when?

Blind tadpoles learn to see using eyeballs attached to their butts
Engineering

Blind tadpoles learn to see using eyeballs attached to their butts

A new study bodes well for human organ transplants

Bee hive
Bees

Watch these bees attack a baseball game—then learn why they did it

BEES!?

Report: Iran built a guided missile in a drone’s body for rebels in Yemen
Drones

Report: Iran built a guided missile in a drone’s body for rebels in Yemen

Linking these machines is a complicated proxy war, an Iranian drone design, and a production batch of gyroscopes.

ses-10 launch
Space X

SpaceX has proven it can reuse its rockets—now what?

The long road to reusability

Bringing Life To Mars
Mars

We finally know what happened to (most of) Mars’ missing atmosphere

The answer was blowing in the solar wind.

What slime mold and online shoppers have in common
Animals

What slime mold and online shoppers have in common

Trying to make good choices in a cold, hard world

Here’s how air pollution kills 3,450,000 people a year
Pollution

Here’s how air pollution kills 3,450,000 people a year

Coal is costly

Climate change contributes to mental illness
Mental Health

Climate change contributes to mental illness

It makes us a little nuts

The truth about climate change continues to be inconvenient in Al Gore’s new trailer
Climate Change

The truth about climate change continues to be inconvenient in Al Gore’s new trailer

'An Inconvenient Truth's' sequel takes climate deniers to task