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Life Skills

How to quit social media for good

Find a habit that doesn't include doom scrolling.

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Ask Us Anything

What is on the Voyager Golden Record? Shockingly, not The Beatles.

Carl Sagan defended sending rock 'n' roll into space.

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Agriculture

Climate takes its toll on the ‘cherry capital of the world’

The erratic weather adding to the troubles of Michigan's cherry growers is impacting farmers everywhere.

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Best of What's New

5 coolest engineering innovations of 2024

From firebricks to vegan cheese.

This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2024 shows the northern lights over Fujin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Northern lights were observed at different places across Heilongjiang.
Space

The 7 coolest space phenomena we saw from Earth in 2024

Eclipses, aurorae, and more lit up the skies.

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Archaeology

10 fascinating archeological discoveries of 2024

Ice age clothes, a mysterious dodecahedron, and archeology in space.

Are you the same person you were when you were younger? People vary in how close they feel to their past and future selves, a trait known as self-continuity. Those with greater self-continuity are more likely to make responsible, long-term decisions, research shows. These five self-portraits by the German painter Albrecht Dürer show the artist at different ages.
Psychology

Making friends with your past and future selves

It’s what psychologists call self-continuity, and can improve your health and well-being.

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Tech Hacks

How to send web articles to your Kindle to read later

Go beyond e-books.

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Animals

11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories from 2024

It was the year of the cicada, pygmy hippo, and more.

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Science

22 Popular Science stories you loved in 2024

Transparent Doritos mice, Sun garbage, and everything in between captured your attention this year.

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Environment

Spending Christmas with ‘Dr. Doom’

How my climate-obsessed dad brought our family closer together.

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Tech Hacks

How to set up and use Apple Intelligence on your iPhone

All the AI features you can make use of in iOS 18.

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Archaeology

Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

'This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia.’

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Electric Vehicles

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. 

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Ask Us Anything

Why do we still have to use airplane mode?

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

'Eric the Robot' in 1930.
Robots

In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future

'The mechanical man ... will rid humanity of much drudgery and thousands of congenial tasks.'

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Science

Vaccine misinformation threatens public health

A biochemist explains how dubious claims from politicians distorts science.

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NASA

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.
Internet

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
Archaeology

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

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