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TikTok app download screen on smartphone
Social Media

Montana may soon make it illegal to use TikTok in the state

There is still no definitive proof TikTok or its owner company is surveilling US users.

Food forests can bring climate resilience, better health, and tasty produce to city residents
Agriculture

Food forests can bring climate resilience, better health, and tasty produce to city residents

Having an abundance of locally-sourced foods in the community is important on many levels.

People walk in a field with blooming poppy flowers near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve following an unusually wet winter on April 14, 2023 near Lancaster, California. Historic levels of rainfall fell in some parts of California, amid a barrage of atmospheric river winter storms, which has led to a 'super bloom' of wildflowers in certain parts of the state this spring.
Conservation

California’s eye-popping super bloom is one for the books

The state’s wet winter leaves flowers blooming and cameras clicking.

A xenobot, or a living robot, in culture, under a microscope.
Engineering

Meet xenobots, tiny machines made out of living parts

The starting ingredient for these bio-robots: frog cells.

Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’
Fossil Fuels

Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’

How the logic of carbon neutrality got 'lit on fire' by big polluters.

Two women using one laptop at a wooden table. One woman is wearing a black hat.
Tech Hacks

Use email aliases to organize your inbox—and stay private

Creating an alias is easier than setting up a new email address.

Black bear cub in a berry bush at Glacier National Park
Bears

Bears can count, take selfies, use tools, recognize supermodels, and even open car doors

Scientists studying bear intelligence want to know: What else can they learn?

Baby cod seem to be drawn to the lullaby of wind turbines
Renewables

Baby cod seem to be drawn to the lullaby of wind turbines

Experiments show larval cod will orient themselves toward the simulated sound of a turbine.

A woman wearing a baggy black shirt lounging on a couch, eating a bowl of popcorn, while holding a TV remote with popcorn all over her chest.
Tech Hacks

Hidden Netflix codes and 5 other streaming tools to make TV simpler, smarter, and more fun

You've got better things to do than scroll endlessly in search of something to watch.

Callisto Jupiter moon in colorized NASA Galileo image
Moons

Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds could be cool travel destinations in the future

Callisto and Ganymede are among the biggest moons in the solar system. NASA’s JUICE mission will reveal some of their secrets.

A new kind of Kevlar aims to stop bullets with less material
Army

A new kind of Kevlar aims to stop bullets with less material

It's not quite the stuff of John Wick's suit, but this novel fiber is stronger than its predecessor.

What happens when a tree dies?
Biology

What happens when a tree dies?

Eventually weather, pests and disease will take their toll, but the story doesn’t end there.

Oxford malaria vaccine application kit
Vaccines

Ghana is the first country to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine

Malaria kills more than one thousand children every day and is the leading cause of child death in Africa.

Hands holding and using smartphone in night light
AI

A mom thought her daughter had been kidnapped—it was just AI mimicking her voice

AI software that clones your voice is only getting cheaper and easier to abuse.

Satellite image of the powerful eruption.
Physics

How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’

A detailed simulation of underwater shockwaves changes what we know about the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption.

M87 black hole Event Horizon Telescope image sharpened by AI with PRIMO algorithm. The glowing event horizon is now clearer and thinner and the black hole at the center darker.
Black Holes

You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.

Mix general relativity with machine learning, and an astronomical donut starts to look more like a Cheerio.

An Xbox One S with a controller sitting on a white table.
Tech Hacks

Control your Xbox by using your voice

Don't stop your gameplay and control your Xbox with your voice instead.

Citizen Marvel-themed watches that are on-sale at Amazon. From left to right: Thor watch, Spider Man watch, Black Panther watch.
Gear

Amazon has Citizen’s surprisingly classy Marvel-themed watches on sale right now

These Citizen x Marvel collab watches allow you to flex your nerd cred in formal situations.

An artist’s illustration of Diamantinasaurus matildae’s head. This sauropod lived in Australia 100 million years ago.
Dinosaurs

A rare, 95-million-year-old titanosaur skull found in Australia

These giant sauropods would've been part of the family that includes the largest animals to ever live on land.

In the future, your car could warn you about nearby wildfires
Internet

In the future, your car could warn you about nearby wildfires

Officials are working on a system to send alerts straight to vehicle infotainment systems. Here's how it would work.