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Monokei Standard keyboard on a desk typing
Peripherals

MONOKEI Standard keyboard review: A gateway to mechanical obsession

This entry-level mechanical keyboard offers excellent feel and performance without a ton of bells and whistles.

Spotify logo on smartphone next to AirPods
Internet

Spotify considered axing white noise podcasts to save $38 million

Internal documents reveal executives weren't happy with missed ad revenue opportunities.

The best guitar stands protect and showcase your instrument.
Audio

The best guitar stands

The best way to stow and display your guitars.

Apple TV 4K remote
Televisions

The best remotes for Apple TV

Fun fact: You don’t have to use the remote that came with your Apple TV.

balance ball chair in an office next to a wood desk
Fitness Gear

The best ball chairs

Here’s how to find a great ball chair to keep you active, reduce back pain, and engage your muscles even when you’re at your desk all day.

Phone showing Waze directions, probably using recorded voices for navigation
Tech Hacks

Anybody can be your travel guide with customized Waze voices

Switch the app's default voice and have someone you care about tell you when you missed the exit.

The remains of a Bronze Age cauldron and an artistic reconstruction of what it may have looked like thousands of years ago.
Archaeology

Bronze Age cauldrons show we’ve always loved meat, dairy, and fancy cookware

Family feasts were the way to eat 5,000 years ago.

Seedlings in yellow pots at a plant nursery in Glacier National Park
Conservation

We need billions more baby trees to regrow US forests

Seedling scarcity and lack of diversity threatens planting and restoration goals.

Metal mesh with water droplets
Technology

Titanium dioxide-coated mesh can purify contaminated fog

Harvesting water from fog isn't difficult, but cleaning it can be. This simple new metal lattice does just that.

Artist's interpretation of Venetoraptor gassenae in a Triassic landscape.
Evolution

This flightless pterosaur ancestor had enviable claws and a raptor-like beak

A newly discovered lagerpetid is shedding light on the mysterious evolution of the pterosaurs that once dominated Earth's skies.

Dead humback whale on beach from aerial view
Sharks

Dead whales and dinosaur eggs: 7 fascinating images by researchers

See the world from a scientist's perspective.

Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) on a flower in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on August 27, 2022.
Insects

These invasive bugs are a nightmare for Washington’s cherries and hops

Japanese beetles are drawn to flowers and fruit. Officials are trying to eradicate them from the state.

A many tentacled feather star.
Ocean

Behold a 20-armed, strawberry-shaped Antarctic sea creature

These leggy feather stars are more diverse than scientists previously thought.

Keep your floors shining with the best floor buffers.
Home

The best floor buffers

Wax, clean, and polish your way to like-new floors with this curated selection of the best floor buffers.

Cruise self-driving car
AI

Cruise’s self-driving taxis are causing chaos in San Francisco

These cars (and the company running them) have had a rough week.

A lineup of the best heated vests
Outdoor Gear

The best heated vests

Up your game this winter with a heated vest for any outdoor adventure.

X logo on smartphone against old Twitter bird logo background
Social Media

Elon Musk’s management is killing Science Twitter

A new survey indicates X's major changes are destroying the platform's online research communities.

The ring-shaped machinery of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Particle Physics

A fleeting subatomic particle may be exposing flaws in a major physics theory

A refined measurement for subatomic muons has major implications—if fundamental theories are accurate.

Members of the Dutch Tall Ship Oosterschelde wave goodbye from the quay in Rotterdam on August 4, 2023. The Rotterdam ship departs for a two-year world tour that scientist Charles Darwin made two centuries ago.
Wildlife

Mission to recreate Darwin’s scientific Beagle voyage sets sail

The Darwin200 expedition is expected to cover 400,000 nautical miles in the hopes of empowering a new generation of conservationists.

January AI helps you keep tabs on your blood sugar all day.
Wearables

January AI glucose monitor review: A pricey but effective approach to fine-tune your diet

These medical devices are now being marketed to non-diabetics who want to keep tabs on their metabolic health.