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Nutrition

The best protein powders

The best protein powders can help you build muscle, boost energy, and pack more protein into your day—while still tasting good. Here’s how to find the right one for you.

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Tech Hacks

Free typing apps that will help your fingers move faster

Type faster from home row all the way up that tricky "Q."

Close-up photos of three fossil animal specimens from the same area and time horizon as the fossil hominin tibia studied by the research team. These fossils show similar cut marks to those found on the hominin tibia studied. The photos show (a) an antelope mandible, (b) an antelope radius (lower front leg bone) and (c) a large mammal scapula (shoulder blade).
Evolution

Cut-up prehistoric bone raises questions about early human cannibalism

Markings on a fossilized tibia make for a bloody ‘whodunnit’ 1.45 million years in the making.

Animals and AI help scientists study pandemics
Wildlife

Animals and AI help scientists study pandemics

To head-off a new spillover, scientists are combining a menagerie of animals, AI-driven models, and open communication.

The Best routers for Comcast in 2022
Peripherals

The best routers for Comcast

Sure, you can use the router Comcast provides, but those rental fees will add up fast.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo in suborbital space.
Private Space Flight

Virgin Galactic has a launch date for its first paying space tourists

The company's climb to space tourism has been a nearly 20-year-long journey.

How to make a great cup of coffee
Home

How to brew coffee in your home

From pour-over brews to quality lattes at the touch of a button.

best patio furniture for dining
Outdoor Gear

The best patio furniture

These durable sets let you kick back and not worry about the occasional spill.

Person working out in living room with dumbbells.
Life Skills

How to start lifting weights—even if you’ve never picked up a dumbbell in your life

Experts weigh in on the fitness trend that’s here to stay.

Coastal flooding predictions triple
Ocean

Coastal flooding predictions triple

Lidar-based, more accurate data gives a new look at the effects of sea level rise.

iPhone screen showing the Shortcuts app on iOS.
Tech Hacks

7 automations that will transform how you use your iPhone

Get your phone working for you.

fake raspberry for testing robot pickers
Robots

This robot used a fake raspberry to practice picking fruit

Soon, it will leave the lab for a real world test.

Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation
Climate Change

Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

This ruling solidifies the states’ Colorado River water rights and indefinitely postpones resolution of the Navajo Nation’s claims.

A person wearing a yellow sweater and sitting at a wooden desk while using a silver Macbook laptop.
Life Skills

It’s time to buy the domain name of your dreams

Everything you need to know before you build your own website.

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Outdoor Gear

The best binoculars for hiking

Wherever you’re going, hiking binoculars ensure you have a great view of all that's ahead of you and all the beauty around you.

NASA kills its electric plane’s flight plan, citing safety concerns
Aviation

NASA kills its electric plane’s flight plan, citing safety concerns

The decision not to fly the experimental X-57 came about because the agency discovered that the propulsion system had the potential to fail and put people at risk.

A pale beige DIY wooden phone amplifier with a Jack Skellington fabric speaker cover on a black shelf against a white wall, with an iPhone inserted into the top, playing music from the band Durry.
Projects

Make your phone louder with this DIY wooden speaker

Passive phone amplifiers can be made out of anything, but this homemade one looks way better than a plastic cup.

This pangolin-inspired robot can curl up into a healing ball
Robots

This pangolin-inspired robot can curl up into a healing ball

Pangolins are the only mammals to sport overlapping scales—a trait that could prove surprisingly useful for internal medicine.

This company put a huge cell-tower-like satellite in space
Engineering

This company put a huge cell-tower-like satellite in space

The 693-square-foot satellite sent fast cell signals down to smartphones in Hawaii. The tech could be used to fill in coverage gaps in the US.

Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) with the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, may have observed a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Unlike most GRBs, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of neutron stars, astronomers have concluded that this GRB came instead from the collision of stars or stellar remnants in the jam-packed environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at the core of an ancient galaxy.
Black Holes

Explosive star ‘demolition derby’ observed for the very first time

Gamma-ray bursts were traced to the nucleus of an ancient galaxy about 3 billion light-years away from Earth.