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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.

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.

tv antenna on the roof of a house
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.

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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.'

a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.
Animals

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

The rare and revered species has disappeared from 99 percent of its former territory.

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton
Dinosaurs

Stegosaurus ‘Apex’ sold for nearly $45 million to a billionaire

It is now the most expensive dinosaur skeleton ever sold, and not without controversy.

Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.
Particle Physics

How the Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year

A CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments.

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii
Archaeology

Two Pompeii skeletons reveal a new story of death at mega disaster

Earthquakes potentially 'influenced the choices of the Pompeiians who faced an inevitable death.'

Latte-colored JBL Stage 2 Loudspeakers and Modern Audio AV receiver in a living room being used by a young woman
Speakers

JBL sets the Stage 2: New lineup lets you easily assemble a modern home theater setup

With new Modern Audio AV Receivers and Stage 2 Loudspeakers, JBL introduces approachable, intuitively calibrated home cinema component systems.

dog skull
Animals

What does a pug skull look like? University digitizes skulls of 152 dog breeds.

Surprising no one, the bone structure of a Rottweiler looks very different than that of a French bulldog.