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Best Cheap Gaming Mice
PC Gaming

The best cheap gaming mice

Getting great cheap mice built for competitive gaming is no longer a pipe dream with our top picks.

Kia’s EV9 can power an average home and then some
Electric Vehicles

Kia’s EV9 can power an average home and then some

The new SUV can also give energy back to the electrical grid with the same bidirectional charger.

Woman's hands holding 23andMe saliva testing box
Internet

23andMe says a data breach affected nearly half of its 14 million users

Over the weekend, the popular genetic testing service raised its estimates from 14,000 to 6.9 million compromised accounts.

A dinosaur called poposaurus walks near some trees. The dinosaur comes from a group of extinct relatives of the crocodile known as Poposauroidea.
Wildlife

Tracing the crocodiles’ curious evolutionary family tree

Multiple extinct relatives of the crocodile like the Poposaurus lived 237 to 201.3 million years ago.

A mosquito encased in yellow-hued amber.
Evolution

Millions of years ago, male mosquitoes may have been blood suckers too

Male descendants of the insects do not have the mouthparts strong enough to pierce skin.

Completed JT-60SA experimental nuclear fusion facility in Japan
Engineering

The world’s largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor is up and running

Located north of Tokyo, the six-story high JT-60SA could spur advancements towards the 'Holy Grail' of renewable energy.

How to speed up your web browser
Tech Hacks

How to speed up your web browser

Don't be dawdling when you're online.

A woman in pain puts her hands up to her nosed with her eyes closed.
Medicine

It’s stuffy nose season. Here’s how to cope

The popular nasal decongestant phenylephrine was deemed ineffective in pill form in September.

hong kong medical care
Health

In Hong Kong’s shoebox flats, an opportunity for targeted care

A community health care model might help low-income families stuck in the city’s notorious subdivided apartments.

A red-tailed hawk with a broken wing at the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, Mass.
Technology

Digitized records from wildlife centers show the most common ways that humans harm wild animals

Shareable digital records can improve wildlife conservation and public health.

The best smart thermostats
Smart Home

The best smart thermostats

Get a more comfortable (and economical) home when you integrate an app- and/or AI-controlled thermostat.

coding on a laptop
AI

Will AI render programming obsolete?

It's exhilarating to think that, with the help of generative AI, anyone who can write can also write programs. It’s not so simple.

The best stick vacuums of 2023
Home

The best stick vacuums, tested and reviewed

Stick vacuums are lightweight and portable, cleaning up everything from small spills to stairs and upholstery.

The best snow shovels lined up on a white background
Home

The best snow shovels

These trusty accessories help clear you a path to enjoy a snow day, not grumble about an icy pileup.

The best paper shredders of 2022.
Home

The best paper shredders

Shred through those sensitive documents, bills, and credit card offers like Edward Scissorhands on a caffeine high.

1-guilla eel robot without casing
Robots

Watch this eel robot effortlessly glide underwater

Researchers built the robot to investigate how eels migrate on empty stomachs.

A white axolotl in a tank. Axolotls are sometimes called the ‘Peter Pan of amphibians’ since they do not go through a traditional metamorphosis and keep larval traits like their signature gills.
Endangered Species

Go (virtually) adopt an axolotl, the ‘Peter Pan’ of amphibians

These critically endangered ‘water monsters’ can regrow limbs, but need our help to survive and thrive.

Elon Musk standing in bed of Cybertruck at launch event
Electric Vehicles

The first Tesla Cybertrucks have arrived

'If Al Capone showed up with a Tommy gun... you would still be alive,' said Tesla CEO Elon Musk during Thursday's delivery event livestream.

The last full moon of 2022 rises through a clear sky, past a string of festive lights. The moon is positioned at the center of a star made up of white Christmas lights.
Space

Two meteor showers and a bright Mercury to light up December’s sky

Here's what astronomers predict this month.

Facebook watches teens online as they prep for college
Social Media

Facebook watches teens online as they prep for college

An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college.