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Sun Home’s Eclipse Red Light & Infrared Saunas blend two popular sauna technologies into a model meant for the home
With a combination or red light and full-spectrum infrared tech inside, this at-home sauna can heat up your body without overheating your home.
Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction
The amphibians are returning to the wild 17 years after a deadly fungus nearly wiped them out.
The best home saunas: Indoor, outdoor, infrared, and beyond
Work up a sweat, detoxify, and burn calories without having to leave the house.
One of Europe’s largest Iron Age mass graves contains mostly women and children
The grisly burial site in Serbia hints at a complex and turbulent prehistoric era.
Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms
For the first time, meteorologists caught the shocking phenomenon during a real storm.
Physics discovery explains why sneakers squeak
And helped researchers play a 'Star Wars' song on glass.
Having to pee makes you scientifically better at video games
Plus what space smells like and other weird things we learned this week.
Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won
Armed with machine guns and 10,000 bullets, soldiers still couldn’t stop the giant birds.
Scrapping business class could halve air travel emissions
A new study examined operational efficiency.
Humans pose the biggest risk to Venice’s celebrity dolphin
Since June 2025, the lone bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Mimmo has been spotted numerous times, including right by San Marco Square.
Amazon just dropped the prices on our favorite Coway air purifiers by up to 39%
Allergy season is looming. Get a head start on scrubbing the air in your home with these rare deals on Coway air purifiers.
Chimpanzees love alcohol and their pee proves it
Intrepid graduate students risked getting peed on...for science.
Color plays an unsung role in how we enjoy concerts
A venue's color choices can change how we experience the music.
Get a wireless DJI microphone setup for as low as $45 right now during this Amazon flash sale
The DJi Mini with a transmitter and receiver is just $45, but there are more deals across all of DJI's microphone offerings.
Can psychopaths change?
Historically, there has been a lot of pessimism around treatment for personality disorders.
Techno DJ jailed after selling 60,000 fake plane parts to major airlines
For years, Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala forged safety documents tied to engines that power Boeing and Airbus jets.
After 144 years, world’s tallest church finally finishes exterior
George Orwell once called Sagrada Família 'one of the most hideous buildings in the world.'
Would you pay $49 a month to drink recycled wastewater?
A recent survey found that rural Americans would pay for the privilege of water reuse. Here's the huge potential benefit of the technique.
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.