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Ford turbocharged its seventh-generation Mustang with new tech
Vehicles

Ford turbocharged its seventh-generation Mustang with new tech

Plus, what to know about the Dark Horse variant.

How many ants are there on Earth? Thousands of billions.
Insects

How many ants are there on Earth? Thousands of billions.

All the ants on Earth weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined.

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast
Weather

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast

Flooding, power outages, and evacuations follow the region's worst storm in decades.

Hurricane Fiona leaves most of Puerto Rico without power
Weather

Hurricane Fiona leaves most of Puerto Rico without power

The Category 1 storm made landfall on Sunday with winds of 85 miles per hour and drenching rains.

Chinese man wearing COVID-19 mask walking down city street in China with national flags behind him
Health

China’s DNA policing program targeted Tibetans and other minorities, reports reveal

The police program collected pinprick blood samples from somewhere between 919,282 and 1,206,962 people.

Person checking their phone and their laptop in a coffee house
Tech Hacks

How to see if someone has been snooping on your devices

Check for suspicious activity on your phone and laptop.

Lockheed’s newest high-energy weapon is multiple lasers in one
Army

Lockheed’s newest high-energy weapon is multiple lasers in one

Here's how it works, how it is intended to be used, and what it has in common with a famous album cover.

a pile of small circulate button batteries
Medicine

More babies are swallowing button batteries—and it can be deadly

Experts describe what happens to the body when you ingest a battery.

Red electric Chevy Corvette convertible prototype in a garage
Electric Vehicles

The super-secret story behind the world’s only electric Motorola Corvette

The electric C4 Corvette recently turned up at a salvage yard in Illinois, along with a stack of documentation showing its origins as a secret Motorola project.

Screenshot of google tv
Tech Hacks

How to ditch the default Google TV home screen and build something better

For when the only thing you want to do is finding apps.

White diet pills on red background
Health

Two states are trying to set age limits for diet pill sales

Some lawmakers think the diet supplement industry has grown out of control.

A young man standing among numerous houseplants and looking at his phone in front of a white wall with an acoustic guitar hung on it.
Life Skills

A bit of care can keep your houseplants from sheltering harmful mold

If you're coughing in your home, you might want to check on your plants.

bird species featured on Audubon's new interactive tool
Internet

These new interactive maps reveal the incredible global journeys of migrating birds

The Bird Migration Explorer, from the National Audubon Society and partners, shows you where birds go and how they get there.

Fish kill in Lake Merritt, Oakland, California, from algae bloom seen from above
Pollution

California’s mega algae bloom is like a ‘wildfire in the water’

The largest and longest-lasting algae bloom in San Francisco Bay is spreading north, racking up tens of thousands of fish kills.

A tourniquet, saw, three knives, and several other small metal instruments laid on a white background.
Medicine

We’re surprisingly good at surviving amputations

Even before modern medicine, amputations weren't a death sentence.

Opisthiamimus gregori
Dinosaurs

This 6-inch-long Jurassic creature does a great lizard impersonation

The fossils uncovered in Wyoming reveal an ancestor of the last remaining rhynchocephalian on Earth.

Hand typing on keyboard in dark room
Internet

Hacker gains ‘full access’ to Uber’s networks using one of oldest tricks in the book

A still unidentified person conned an Uber employee into handing over a vital security password.

an art rendering of a disk shaped probe in space
Space Telescope

When Voyager 1 goes dark, what comes next?

NASA's 45-year-old probe is one of the farthest traveling crafts in space. But as Voyager shows its age, a new mission could seek to surpass it.

2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners include ducks in a row, constipated scorpions, ice cream, and more
Archaeology

2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners include ducks in a row, constipated scorpions, ice cream, and more

The 32nd Ig Nobel prize ceremony rewarded the most unusual and fun science the world has to offer.

Why do nuclear power plants need electricity to stay safe?
Engineering

Why do nuclear power plants need electricity to stay safe?

All six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are shut down. Here's how facilities like these work, and why a source of electricity is so crucial.