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151 million smartphones are thrown away every single year in the US. Only 17 percent of them get recycled.

Exoplanet system PDS 70 could be home to the first-found 'exotrojan.'

This baby powder from outer space is unexpectedly rich in carbon.

Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

Fervo Energy's Project Red enhanced geothermal system site could be a promising sign of things to come for clean power.

After a week of erruptions, the dust is settling on the Aleutian Islands.

Get the new software on your iPhone ahead of time.

A player who has studied the game will unquestionably win more than chance would dictate against a naïve player.

Australian scientists solved the mystery of the peryton, a perplexing radio wave with an Earthly origin.

International regulators say the water is extremely safe, although locals are still worried about longterm effects.

Remembering the differences between these two common tech terms will help you when you invest in shiny new devices.

Getting your head stuck is embarrassing, but the solutions are simple.

A new study merges physics with archival documents to figure out how the Founding Father’s printing network made distinct paper currency.

The mint condition, 4GB smartphone sold for over $190,000.

The duel to the death from 125 million years ago challenges the idea that dinosaurs didn’t have any foes.

Writer Karen Pinchin visits the massive markets of Madrid to learn about the age-old practice of tuna fishing.

The new treatment was 78 percent effective at preventing hospitalizations due to the lung-attacking virus in clinical trials.

Get up close with the many ways carnivorous plants lure insects to their doom.

Alcohol sales rose during the pandemic, with especially large jumps in the consumption of spirits.

Cosmologists are getting closer to the truth.