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DARPA

Can we find hackers by the clues they leave in their code?

An intelligence organization called IARPA wants to get better at the art of cyber attribution. Here's how.

A honey-infused Bee's Knees cocktail on a white plate on a table next to a jar of honey, some lemons, and a honey dipper.
Life Skills

The science behind mixing honey into cocktails

You don't have to be an experienced bartender to get your guests buzzin'.

Piloting a hovercraft means Ian Cragg has to make important decisions on the fly.
Technology

What does a hovercraft operator do?

Ian Cragg speeds to the aid of people and vessels during emergencies at sea and on shore.

The Samsung Health Monitor, a photoplethysmographic technology that allows blood pressure measurement through the Samsung Galaxy Watch, was approved as a medical device by the South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in April 2020.
Health

New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure

Embedded in cell phones, rings, bracelets or watches, the novel tools aim to make it easier to manage hypertension. But they must still pass several tests before hitting the clinic.

A microscopic image of small drug-resistant germs in yellow surrounding a larger human cell, in red.
Diseases

Poop transplants might protect vulnerable patients from superbug infections

A small clinical trial suggests a dose of fecal material could help flush out harmful bacteria.

Watch a Japanese research ship fire an electromagnetic railgun
Navy

Watch a Japanese research ship fire an electromagnetic railgun

A railgun can accelerate a projectile to hypersonic speeds—that's more than five times the speed of sound.

Photograph of the skeletal mount of an Allosaurus specimen (AMNH 5753), from William Diller Matthew's 1915 book “Dinosaurs.”
Evolution

When a Jurassic giant died, predatory dinos probably feasted on the carcass

Scavenging proved to be an evolutionary advantage in one modeling study.

Denon PerL Pro True Wireless Earbuds next to an ASUS ZenFone 10 showing a personalized listening profile in the Denon app
Earbuds

Denon PerL Pro Earbuds review: A true wireless tune-up

Friends, readers, one specific coworker, lend me your ears; I come to bury stock tunings, not to praise them.

An orange starfish, or sea star, on a black backgorund. The unusual five-axis symmetry of sea stars has long confounded our understanding of animal evolution.
Evolution

The sea star’s whole body is a head

‘It’s not at all what scientists have assumed about these animals.’

Offshore wind turbine being constructed with nearby supply ship
Engineering

A Danish company just scrapped its ambitious plan for a New Jersey offshore wind farm

Ørsted cancelled Ocean Wind I and II, but still has plans in Rhode Island.

The Milky Way galaxy shines above a dark space telescope in the foreground.
NASA

What astronomers learned from a near-Earth asteroid they never saw coming

No one spotted space rock 2023 NT1 until two days after it missed us.

Person in a red sweater and a black coat holds a mobile phone on their hands and looks at the screen.
Tech Hacks

Stop spam texts with some help from your favorite messaging app

Fight back against the deluge of unwanted messages.

UN worker checking humanitarian aid trucks crossing into the Gaza Strip
Health

What is humanitarian aid? Peanut butter, WiFi, and other life-saving supplies.

The exact kind of aid depends on the crisis, but certain resources are always needed.

Lawn equipment spews ‘shocking’ amount of air pollution, new data shows
Pollution

Lawn equipment spews ‘shocking’ amount of air pollution, new data shows

“Really inefficient engine technology is, pound for pound, more polluting than cars and trucks.”

The gold mirrors of JSWT sit in front of an extremely large, circular door in a vast room with scientists working.
Photography

This NASA photographer documented the 30-year journey to build the James Webb Space Telescope

It took 100 million hours of hard work to make, test, and launch the impressive space observatory. Chris Gunn gives us a window into that.

The US is developing a new nuclear bomb. Why?
Air Force

The US is developing a new nuclear bomb. Why?

It would be the 13th version of the B61 line of nuclear gravity bombs.

Woman in sweater logging into Facebook on a tablet
Social Media

Meta will offer premium ad-free Facebook and Instagram options—just not in the US

A lack of regulation is unlikely to motivate the tech giant to do the same in the States.

The best RFID wallets will help keep your credit cards secure.
Wearables

The best RFID wallets

Think of an RFID wallet as a force field.

Several blooming yellow sunflowers under a blue sky with white clouds.
Biology

We still don’t fully know how sunflowers turn toward the sun

Their signature move appears to be different than a better known light response in plants.

An artist's illustration of an early lamprey's teeth and sucker. The Jurassic lampreys Yanliaomyzon had a feeding apparatus that surprisingly resembles that of the pouched lampreys. It foreshadows the ancestral flesh-eating habit of present day. lampreys.
Fish

Giant prehistoric lamprey likely sucked blood—and ate flesh

A newly discovered nightmarish fossil of one of these parasitic ‘water vampires’ is 23 inches long.