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special sensor lidar truck from Brookhaven
Technology

A decked out laser truck is helping scientists understand urban heat islands

It has everything: Lidar, helium balloons, sensors for measuring wind, precipitation, air quality, and more.

Lucy spacecraft was fixed long after it launched.
Deep Space

How engineers saved NASA’s new asteroid probe when it malfunctioned in space

The craft will continue on to the distant Trojans, which could reveal how Earth formed.

A white Samsung M8 on a white desk
Televisions

Samsung M8 monitor review: Two-in-one isn’t always double the fun

This smart monitor and streaming TV combo can handle casual use but might be too clunky for the working zillenial.

Exterior of Whole Foods grocery store entrance
Security

Amazon wants your palm print scanned to pay at dozens more Whole Foods

The contactless payment system gets its biggest expansion yet.

A sauropod like Galeamopus would have walked on soft pads.
Evolution

Cushy feet supported sauropods’ gigantic bodies

Jurassic dinosaurs and today's elephants have surprising similarities in their heels.

East Antarctic ice sheet collapse in March 2022.
Climate Change

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet could raise sea levels 16 feet by 2500

Keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius is crucial to preserving the 'sleeping giant.'

One way street sign outside Meta headquarters entrance
Security

Meta could protect users’ abortion-related messages whenever it wants, advocates say

Privacy watchdogs say Meta could easily add default safeguards to its messaging platforms, but the company argues otherwise.

Shrew on the forest floor.
Wildlife

Newly discovered Langya virus may have jumped from shrews to humans

The disease is suspected to have infected 35 people over a two-year period.

A woman expressing shock and brain tingling under sound waves of the Shepard Tone in red and pink
Science

Why this cinematic sound trick makes your brain tingle and your skin crawl

Neuroscientists and sound designers explain the Shepard tone—an auditory illusion that makes listeners feel like they're flying or sinking.

stack of magazines with page markers
Tech Hacks

5 bookmarking apps to keep your unread open tabs organized

Level up your bookmarking.

The Navy is struggling with a summer of bad weather ‘mishaps’
Military

The Navy is struggling with a summer of bad weather ‘mishaps’

An F-18 was fished from the ocean and 10 helicopters were damaged by a storm, but an F/A-18E Super Hornet thought lost to the sea has been salvaged.

Mercedes vehicles will soon be getting game-quality graphics on their hyperscreens
Concept Cars

Mercedes vehicles will soon be getting game-quality graphics on their hyperscreens

It'll be screens and 3D images as far as the eye can see.

a person wearing a surgical face mask rests their head in their hand looking tired
COVID-19

Long COVID recovery is finally getting the attention it deserves in the US

There's currently no simple answer to long COVID, but the US government plans to invest in new research that investigates the variability in recovery.

text message on phones
Technology

Google pleads its case to Apple to switch from SMS to RCS texts

Google wants Apple to make some changes, arguing it will improve texting between Android devices and iPhones.

Telexistence shelving robot TX-SCARA placing item on fridge shelf
AI

300 Japanese stores will be reshelved by robot arms next month

Telexistence's TX-SCARA is designed to fill Japan's labor shortage, but its implications are much larger than that.

Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis.
Animals

This giant isopod lives in the crater of a dinosaur-killing asteroid

Meet the newest relative of the roly-poly.

Photo of customers in line to checkout at a Walmart
Technology

Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership

The big box giant is rumored to have already met with Disney, Paramount, and Comcast.

Vials of vaccine with needle
Diseases

The monkeypox vaccine can now be injected in a more effective way

Injection between layers of skin can increase vaccine availability by fivefold.

Human echolocation is real—and you might be able to do it
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Human echolocation is real—and you might be able to do it

Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

a black, white and purple designed image of a man driving a levitating car
Concept Cars

The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive

These wheelless air cars were all the rage of 1950s and '60s automotive design—and they might be making a comeback.