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Weapons

The sand that (almost) killed millions

Death Sand, Radioactive Clouds, and the complicated pursuit of 'gentle nuclear war.'

Samsung OLED 4K
Televisions

The best 4K TVs, as chosen by experts

Treat your eyes to the best 4K TVs money can buy.

An old female rhesus macaque eats alone on the island of Cayo Santiago. As female macaques age, the size of their social network shrinks.
Science

It’s not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age

In patterns that may sound familiar, long-term studies reveal what elderly deer, sheep and macaques are up to in their twilight years.

a crocodile, kangaroos, and shark
Wildlife

15 photographs documenting the silly, serene, and savage side of the animal kingdom

Nature, you're wild.

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DIY

Why you should buy physical copies of your favorite books

Ebooks are great, but nothing beats a physical copy of your favorite read.

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Tech Hacks

How to clone your voice on your iPhone or Mac

Anyone can set up Personal Voice now.

An aerial view of a cargo ship waiting at the Khawr Abd Allah canal leading up to Al-Faw port in southern Iraq in June.
Pollution

How cleaning up shipping cut pollution—and warmed the planet

When the maritime sector slashed sulfur emissions, it became an accidental experiment in geoengineering.

a bear lays flat on its belly on a rocky beach with its legs projected backwards
Bears

It’s sploot season: Animals strike a pose to chill out

It’s nature’s way of being cool.

Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.
Space Telescope

400 years of telescopes: A window into our study of the cosmos

The humble glass set our quest in motion. Here are a few steps along the way.

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Projects

How to connect an antenna to a TV: Watch movies, shows, and sports for free

A TV antenna can grant you access to free local and national programming, but you need to get the right setup for your situation.

A Levoit Core 300 in a pattern on a plain background.
Appliances

Our favorite budget air purifier is still on sale post-Prime Day

This budget air purifier has everything you need to keep your air allergen-free, and it's even at a lower price during Amazon Prime Day.

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Tech Hacks

This iPhone feature will filter out spam and texts from people you don’t know

An easy-to-miss setting makes managing your texts a lot easier.

a flat map of the planet jupiter, showing reddish-orange lines and the planet's great red spot
Deep Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking

There could be fewer storms for the bright red anticyclone to consume.

This rotifer has just survived a life-threatening infection. When a fungal disease attacked, she switched on hundreds of genes that her ancestors copied from microbes, including antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria.
Animals

No sex? No problem. These tiny, asexual animals steal genes to make their own medicine 

They could 'explode in a puff fungus.' Instead, they produce chemicals to cure themselves.

Solar farm panels in meadow
Renewables

There’s a right and a wrong way to build a solar farm

Large renewable energy installations can handle storm runoff and soil erosion, if constructed correctly.

a bee kicks away an ant
Animals

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

Smack!

Outages have hit at least eight states this year.
Technology

The nation’s 911 system is on the brink of its own emergency

While some states, cities, and counties have modernized their systems, many others are lagging.

Hundreds of thousand of athletes and visitors attending this year’s Olympics could have their movements analyzed by a real-time AI video surveillance tool.
Security

Swimming, soccer, and surveillance: Paris preps for an AI-monitored Olympics

The technology 'risks permanently transforming France.'

NASA VIPER Rover
Moons

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

The search for water at the lunar south pole will have to wait.

Martian landscape simulation room in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha
Mars

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

'Most humans nowadays do not know what it’s like to live like that. They don’t know what it’s like to live offline.'