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How to customize your phone’s always on display
Tech Hacks

How to customize your phone’s always on display

Make sure your phone stays useful even when it's standing by.

A great white pup swimming in the Pacific Ocean. In July 2023, wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes took footage of what could be the first newborn great white shark ever recorded.
Sharks

This could be the first newborn great white shark ever captured on camera

The super rare footage from the California coast could offer more clues into how sharks spend their first days on Earth.

Road rage—and parking spot envy—can reveal a lot about how humans tick
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Road rage—and parking spot envy—can reveal a lot about how humans tick

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

Oil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back—to mine for lithium.
Energy

Oil companies used to run this town. Now they’re back—to mine for lithium.

Fossil fuel companies are turning to rural communities for critical minerals, raising familiar hopes and fears.

A lineup of the best mechanical keyboards
PC Gaming

The best mechanical keyboards, tested and reviewed

You don't have to be a gamer to discover how the right mechanical keyboard for your needs can be a game-changer.

These are the Best TVs for sports on a plain white background.
Televisions

The best TVs for watching sports

It takes more than a giant screen to make a TV ideal for watching your favorite sporting events.

Just cutting DNA to bits isn’t a big deal. The special trick that CRISPR systems add is to make those cuts only in precise, targeted spots.
Gene Editing

What’s going on with CRISPR gene editing?

With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot happening in the genome editing field.

Biohybrid robot legs in underwater container
Internet

Watch this cool, useless biohybrid robot take a stroll

Part rubber, part rat muscle tissue, it could inspire future, more helpful machines.

Man waiting for new Microsoft default font
Internet

Get ready for Aptos, Microsoft’s new default font

Microsoft users are starting to notice the gradual rollout, after years of design tweaks, testing, and public feedback.

The full moon rises, with clouds below and behind it.
Moons

The moon is shrinking (very slowly)

Some of the sites for future Artemis missions are vulnerable landslides and 'moonquakes' from the resulting fault lines.

Ingenuity rotocopter on Mars
Mars

RIP Mars Ingenuity, the ‘little helicopter that could’

NASA confirms its historic engineering feat finally succumbed to the Red Planet’s hazards, after surviving 33 times longer than expected.

This photograph shows a male dusky antechinus in a naturalistic enclosure located in Cape Otway, Australia.
Wildlife

Sex is more important than sleep for these marsupials

Male antechinuses only live for one year, so they must make it count.

Best blackout shades sliced header
Home

The best blackout shades

These shades look clean and sleek, and will keep your room pitch-black.

Image taken of JAXA SLIM lunar lander on moon upside down
Moons

Japan’s SLIM lunar lander stuck the landing—upside down

Despite the inverted arrival, JAXA gives its ‘Moon Sniper’ a ‘perfect score.’

Worldcoin’s initial basketball-sized iris-scanning Orb resembles an all-seeing floating eyeball.
Technology

Worldcoin’s eye-scanning, identity-verifying Orb will get a ‘more friendly’ face

The new version of the tech will come in multiple colors and reportedly resemble Apple products.

Elephants navigate a landscape invaded by big-headed ants at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Laikipia, Kenya. Following invasion by big-headed ants, whistling-thorn trees are rendered vulnerable to elephants, whose browsing and breaking of trees promotes savanna openness.
Insects

Invasive ants leave lions scrambling for prey on the savannah in an ecological chain reaction

One insect has led to a cascade of consequences.

Close up of teens with smartphone
Social Media

Facebook and Instagram are making it harder for strangers to DM teens

Even other teens shouldn't be able to DM underage users if they're not already connected on the apps.

A lineup of the best blankets on a plain background.
Home

The best blankets for movie nights and catching z’s

Cozy up to these snuggly, stylish blankets.

A bright young star within a colorful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colorful wisps.
Space Telescope

Check out JWST’s new image of a star factory

The extragalactic, starburst-patterned nebula N79 is about 1,630-light-year-wide.

Groundwater recharge ponds with water delivered from a canal in Arizona.
Environment

Groundwater levels are falling worldwide—but there are solutions

New research shows how to protect the aquifers that hold most of the world’s fresh water.