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Televisions

Save $1,500 on this 98-inch TCL TV at Best Buy before the big game

If bird is the word, these last-minute deals are a steal. If saving hundreds is one of your chief concerns, these discounts are a touchdown.

a black and white dog called a border collie sniffs around green grass
Dogs

Border collies out-sniff some hunting dogs in scientific smell competition

Move over, bloodhounds.

There are differences between the ways U.S. and China regulate AI.
AI

Why regulating AI is so hard—and necessary

Misinformation, market volatility and more: Faced with the need to mitigate risks that artificial intelligence presents, countries, and regions are charting different paths.

Deep envisions several of its 'sentinel' units parking beside each other to from an underwater research center.
Technology

The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement

Initial participants may spend 28 days in these 'sentinels'—but the firm envisions much, much longer stays.

The best floorstanding speakers for 2025, according to experts
Speakers

The best floorstanding speakers for 2025, according to experts

Towering sound and cutting-edge technologies—our picks for the best floorstanding speakers deliver immersive audio for every space and budget.

Crane installing wind turbine wings
Renewables

New wind turbines will test out the world’s longest wooden blades

Two companies aim to install over 164-foot-long blades as early as next year.

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Earbuds

The earbuds that help me keep my heart rate up are down to their lowest price

$100 off for a limited time, these discounted Bose Ultra Open Earbuds can help you beat your personal best at an unbeatable price.

an orange kitten with its paw up
Cats

Relax, Whiskers. Scotland is not banning cats

The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission estimates that domestic felines annually kill at least 27 million animals in the UK.

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.
Dinosaurs

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

The duck-like Vegavis iaai had strong jaws for snatching fish.

raw water
Health

How does raw water compare to tap water?

A microbiologist explains why the risks outweigh the benefits.

a bloodied badger stares at a porcupine. the badger is covered in quills
Wildlife

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice winners capture nature at its fiercest

A fierce badger, a soaring owl, and a camouflaged stoat.

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Gear

This $35 discounted AeroPress coffee maker is the Valentine’s Day gift that saves money all year long

Making out is always better with coffee breath, so get this discounted Aeropress for your Valentine this year.

Diagram showing potential labret piercing abrasions on teeth
Archaeology

Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children

The body modification practice may be 29,000-years-old.

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.
Space Telescope

Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away

The gas spewing from these protostars collides with fast stellar winds.

A general view exterior of Caesars Superdome, home of the NFL New Orleans Saints, on October 13, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Technology

FAA creates ‘No Drone Zone’ around Super Bowl LIX

The NFL reports a 20,000% increase in unauthorized drone activity during games between 2017 and 2023.

Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site
Archaeology

‘Devil’s money’ discovered at medieval cult site

‘The results should be studied with an open mind.’

a tiny green frog looking up from water
Endangered Species

Frogs rescued from a deadly fungus welcome 33 froglets

The new arrivals survived a trans-Atlantic journey.

William Heath’s satirical 1829 colored etching was in reaction to a less ambitious, but still impossible, project of using a vacuum tube technique to move people between London and Edinburgh. Source: William Heath, A Futuristic Vision (etching) (London: Thos. McLean, ca. May 1829).
Technology

The Hyperloop: A 200-year history of hype and failure

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Alpha is another overhyped venture, recycling 200-year-old dreams and exaggerated claims of innovation.

In this photo illustration, we see a close-up of the midsection and legs of woman with an arm tattoo holding a smartphone and an illuminated insulin pump.
Diabetes

Does wearing a continuous glucose monitor help people without diabetes? We asked experts.

You can keep tabs on your blood sugar spikes, but the benefits aren't clear.

Killer whale breaching water with oceans and birds behind it
Sharks

Killer whales murder great white sharks for their livers

DNA linked the predators to a chewed-up carcass.