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The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm
Air Force

The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm

The defensive weapon is called THOR, and in a recent test it zapped the drones out of the sky.

The best netgear routers composited black edition
Smart Home

The best Netgear routers

Netgear makes a wide range of routers. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or streaming fan, here's how to pick the best one for you.

These massive, wing-like ‘sails’ could add wind power to cargo ships
Engineering

These massive, wing-like ‘sails’ could add wind power to cargo ships

The new technology is a welcome modernization of classic engineering.

Wing's drone flying in the stadium
Drones

Watch a Google drone deliver beer and snacks to Denver’s Coors Field

It might never match the pace and precision of a human vendor, but it's still a cool demonstration.

A polar bear stands on sea ice.
Global Warming

The Montreal Protocol had a dramatic ice-saving side effect

The United Nations treaty on CFCs is likely delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer by as much as 15 years.

A group of yellow and fuzzy baby chicks.
Agriculture

How a sniff test could make sexing chicks more humane

The recently developed technique can help farmers tell the sex of a chick without cracking an egg.

A bathtub ring seen above the waterline o the brown and red rocks around Lake Powell, Utah due to drought that reduced the flow of the Colorado River.
Climate Change

Colorado River deals pays Arizona, California, and Nevada $1.2 billion to use less water

The 'breakthrough' deal follows an unusually wet winter in the West.

Person on yoga mat doing bridge exercise to work out muscles in core, neck, and back. Illustrated in red, black, white, and gray.
Fitness & Exercise

A guide to the muscles you forget to exercise

Add “tendon day” to your gym routine.

Wall covered in ripped posters and stickers.
Life Skills

How to use science to remove sticker residue

Choose your sticker-removing fighter.

SuperBIT high-altitude balloon with space telescope in the skies after its launch
Space Telescope

A super pressure balloon built by students is cruising Earth’s skies to find dark matter

SuperBIT belongs to a new class of budget space telescopes, ferried by high-altitude balloons rather than rockets.

flying foxes aka bats in trees spreading disease potentially
Bats

How studying bats can help predict and prevent the next deadly pandemic

Funders thought watching bats wasn’t important. Then she helped solve the mystery of a deadly virus.

The 2024 Toyota Tacoma
Hybrid Cars

The new Tacoma’s shock-absorbing seats help you keep your eyes on the prize

Take a look at the fourth generation of a beloved vehicle, which now comes in a new Trailhunter trim.

Asian person with mid-length gray hair rubbing temples because of chronic pain
Medicine

Doctors recorded brainwaves to finally ‘see’ their patients’ chronic pain

In a first, deep brain stimulation was used to measure uncontrollable, long-term pain in four people, opening a door to personalized care in the future.

ASUS ROG Ally
PC Gaming

ASUS ROG Ally review: The best way to game on the go

ASUS first handheld PC feels like the future of portable game, with one foot mired in the past.

An oncoming Union Pacific freight train
Agriculture

30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappeared from a desert-bound train

Officials believe a railcar malfunction is to blame, not bad actors.

A detailed example of a light bridge crossing a sunspot’s umbra. Hot solar material (plasma) rises in the bright centers of these surrounding “cells,” cools off, and then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.
Sun

See hot plasma bubble on the sun’s surface in powerful closeup images

Hawaii's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is giving us a detailed look at sunspots and convection cells.

Facebook webpage showing unavailable account error message.
Social Media

Meta fined record $1.3 billion for not meeting EU data privacy standards

Despite the massive penalty, little may change so long as US data law remains lax.

An artist’s illustration of the giant gorgonopsian Inostrancevia with its dicynodont prey, scaring off the much smaller African species Cyonosaurus.
Biology

This tiger-sized, saber-toothed, rhino-skinned predator thrived before the ‘Great Dying’

The extinction event wiped out 80 to 90 percent of Earth’s species and completely changed the biosphere.

A person sitting in front of a laptop that has a skull and crossbones in green code on the screen, indicating that it may have been infected with malware that they'll now need to remove.
Tech Hacks

How to remove malware from your suffering computer

Getting rid of malicious software isn't as difficult as it may seem.

The lower Manhattan skyline at dusk.
Climate Change

NYC is sinking and climate change is only making it worse

The weight from giant skyscrapers is magnifying the problem.