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Best Roku TVs
Televisions

The best Roku TVs

The Roku’s coming from inside the TV …

The best battery backups
Peripherals

The best battery backups

A reliable battery backup protects your electronics in more ways than one.

Sliced up best Dell monitors header image
Peripherals

The best Dell monitors

No matter what kind of work you’re doing, Dell likely has a monitor to fit your setup.

Pyxis Ocean retrofitted with WindWings setting sail for its maiden voyage, August 2023
Engineering

A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage

Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,' 'Pyxis Ocean' is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.

Multiple tubes of virus samples in green, green, and pink labels on a shelf. On August 17, the World Health Organization designated BA.2.86, or Pirola, a “variant under monitoring.”
COVID-19

New COVID variant under monitoring carries slew of novel mutations

Nicknamed Pirola, the BA.2.86 variant has been sequenced in four countries.

Colorful t-shirts hang on a clothing rack. According to Northwestern University’s Body and Media Lab, women’s clothing tends to be more painful, restrictive, and distracting, which can interrupt focus and make it more difficult to move around in the workplace.
Science

The unexpected benefits of making your clothes a source of joy

Fun and functional clothing can send an important message of inclusivity.

Students testing ChatGPT AI tutor on computers
AI

A version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 will be ‘teaching’ thousands of kids this fall

Khanmigo's AI beta "test" program is meant to assist teachers with individualized student help.

A Facebook Like icon doing a thumbs-down, as you might do if you want to delete your Facebook account.
Tech Hacks

How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you

Meta has buried account deletion and deactivation within your Facebook settings, but we found them.

14.5-inch lava lamp
Speakers

The best lava lamps

Let those magical globs provide endless entertainment. 

A vehicle drives through a flooded street as Tropical Storm Hilary moves through the area on August 20, 2023 in Cathedral City, California. A wave of water pushes onto the street and palm trees shake in the wind.
Weather

Tropical Storm Hilary soaks the Southwest

The first tropical storm to hit Southern California since 1939 brought flooding and high winds from coastal areas to the desert.

The new ethanol? Biogas producers are pushing livestock poop as renewable.
Electric Vehicles

The new ethanol? Biogas producers are pushing livestock poop as renewable.

A boom in electric cars might help them.

Jaguar's Formula E racecar
Engineering

How Formula E race cars are guiding Jaguar’s EV future

Here are some of the key lessons the luxury brand has learned from the race track.

Doxycycline antibiotic pill for STI and STD prevention on a coral background
Life Skills

This ‘morning after’ pill could prevent STIs from unprotected sex

The same antibiotic you'd take for strep or Lyme will fight chlamydia and syphilis before they get serious.

The truth behind animal resistance memes
Whales

The truth behind animal resistance memes

Memes about animal resistance are everywhere—here’s why you shouldn’t laugh off rebellious orcas and sea otters too quickly.

An illustration of two NASA astronauts in a lunar crater.
Moons

Why do all these countries want to go to the moon right now?

Call it a gold rush, not a space race.

Close up of young nurse holding old man's hands and encourage him.
Health

New Alzheimer’s drug raises hopes—along with questions

Clinics serving Alzheimer’s patients are working out the details of who will get treated with the new drug Leqembi. It won’t be for everyone with memory-loss symptoms.

A laptop showing how to reverse image search on the Google image results page.
Tech Hacks

How to do a reverse image search

The internet can tell you where a picture came from.

blended wing prototype plane
Military

Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ plane design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight

Check out the concept art for the prototype.

Brown-skinned child with black braids at the grocery store holding ripe fruit like pineapple and papaya in arms
Agriculture

Pick the sweetest, ripest fruit with this science-based guide

Stop and smell the tomatoes. No seriously, it helps.

Elkhorn coral fragments in lab
Ocean

The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from a historic heatwave

Corals can recover from mass bleaching events, but long periods of high heat can leave them vulnerable.