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The best travel guitar gear for guitarists
Audio

The best travel guitar gear for guitarists

It’s also perfect for writing, performing, and recording.

Relax after a long day with one of the best foot massagers.
Home

The best foot massagers

Work the stress out of your tired toes and feet.

Red and white lighthouses being submerged by sea level rise. Illustration.
Land

Humans and nature will handle rising tides, together

What does the future of US coastal defenses look like?

Man checking fitness tracker
Fitness & Exercise

What you should know about heart rate variability–a biometric most fitness trackers measure

Heart rate variability depends on a range of physiological, psychological, environmental, lifestyle, and nonmodifiable genetic factors.

A look at the new B-21 Raider—and the stealth bomber that preceded it
Air Force

A look at the new B-21 Raider—and the stealth bomber that preceded it

Comparing a stealthy new aircraft with the B-2 Spirit.

College textbooks aren’t keeping up with the severity of the global climate crisis
Climate Change

College textbooks aren’t keeping up with the severity of the global climate crisis

Content has stagnated since the 90s, despite climate impacts affecting the entire planet.

Things We Bought 2022 sliced header
Gift Guides

The best things we bought in 2022

Got gift cards? Here are recommendations on where we'd spend 'em.

A salt marsh
Environment

Why some salt marshes are more endangered than we thought

The painstakingly slow recovery of an Oregon marsh raises new worries about how delicate these ecosystems can be.

A guide to the world of mud volcanoes
Weather

A guide to the world of mud volcanoes

Mud volcanoes are little known in North America, but much more common in other parts of the world.

Android-phone-on-table-with-home-screen-showing
Tech Hacks

How to set up F-Droid, the open-source alternative to the Google Play Store

The unofficial store vets apps for safety and privacy.

An iOS alert on an iPhone screen that says the storage is full and there is no more room on the phone.
Tech Hacks

Simple tricks to help you free up space on your phone

Behind every good selfie, there are 50 failed attempts, but you don't need them all on your phone.

One of Ford's battery modules
Electric Vehicles

Ford used a quantum computer to explore EV battery materials

Quantum computers can simulate the properties of new materials that might make batteries safer, more energy-dense, and easier to recycle.

‘Snowball Earth’ was crushing and cold. What animals could survive it?
Wildlife

‘Snowball Earth’ was crushing and cold. What animals could survive it?

We know there were animals during Earth’s chilliest era—but we still don't know what they look like.

Close up of Facebook homepage with friend request
Social Media

Meta will pay $725 million for a single Cambridge Analytica privacy settlement

The company won't have to admit any wrongdoing, although it still faces a number of similar lawsuits.

A pink iguana in green grass at Galápagos National Park in Ecuador.
Wildlife

Pink Iguana hatchlings spotted for the first time on the Galápagos in decades

Only a few hundred of these brightly colored lizards are left on Isabela Island in the Galápagos.

The insignia of Tesla on the steering wheel of the plug-in electric car Model 3
AI

Tesla driver blames self-driving mode for eight-car pileup

The Thanksgiving Day crash in San Francisco sent two children to the hospital.

person holding internet router next to laptop
Tech Hacks

Boost your connection by checking your Wi-Fi strength from any device

Check performance, solve problems.

Extreme cold is blasting half the US this weekend
Climate Change

Extreme cold is blasting half the US this weekend

The developing bomb cyclone has already broken temperature records and is set to intensify.

The Patriot missiles going to Ukraine have a long wartime history
Weapons

The Patriot missiles going to Ukraine have a long wartime history

Here's how these weapons are supposed to work, and how they have been used.

Sugar cookies baked with quinoa flour on a cookie sheet in a kitchen.
Nutrition

A new kind of quinoa flour may be coming to a sugar cookie near you

Taste testers even preferred the high-fiber, high-protein cookies to normal ones.