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Who wants to swim with robot dolphins? More people than you may think.
Animals

Who wants to swim with robot dolphins? More people than you may think.

It’s not hard to convince people to want to hang out with a robot dolphin instead of the real thing.

Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility
Renewables

The US’s first utility-scale renewable energy triple threat is online in Oregon

The rare combination of solar, wind, and battery storage should hopefully soon be more common.

A meteor shower and Hunter’s Moon will light the night the sky this weekend
Space

A meteor shower and Hunter’s Moon will light the night the sky this weekend

It's going to be a big weekend for stargazers.

a great white shark under water
Biology

Watch what can happen when killer whales tangle with great white sharks

Rare aerial footage captured this intense aquatic attack for the very first time in South Africa, where great white sharks are rapidly declining.

wrist wearing apple watch
Tech Hacks

How to make your Apple Watch battery last longer

Give your wearable a long lasting life.

La Niña hits Sydney with record-breaking rain
Climate Change

La Niña hits Sydney with record-breaking rain

Three more months of potential rainfall are still to come.

A man standing in a field lands a drone in the back of a pickup truck.
AI

Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet

You can't eat an algorithm, but data can still be useful when it comes to food production. Here's how.

Coyote walking on street
Cats

Culver City is home to a unique cat versus coyote conflict

California cat lovers take note.

A woman blows her nose with recovering in bed.
Diseases

The US may be in for a brutal flu season

The best time to get your annual flu vaccine is now, experts say.

guided frame demo during google annoucement
AI

Google’s Guided Frame helps visually impaired individuals take better selfies

In its Pixel 7 announcement event, Google debuted a new way to help blind and nearly blind people better frame their photos.

X-ray vision adds a whole new layer to James Webb Space Telescope images
Space Telescope

X-ray vision adds a whole new layer to James Webb Space Telescope images

View features that can only be seen when multiple telescopes team up.

two hands holding us passports in a plaza in madrid spain
Life Skills

8 things you need to know before traveling international for the first time

There's an entire world out there.

Silkworms like the one seen here spin cocoons of silk.
Biology

How researchers leveled up worm silk to be tougher than a spider’s

Spiders usually produce the strongest threads of all the silk-making animals.

falling water levels on the rhine near cologne august 2022
Global Warming

Hotter summers are baking the water out of soil at unprecedented rates

This summer's extreme droughts would be 'virtually impossible' without the influence of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say.

How do blue whales find food? They check the weather.
Whales

How do blue whales find food? They check the weather.

Scientists tracked whale sounds to discover one of their krill-hunting tricks.

bonnie and clyde with electric car
Vehicles

Will self-driving cars make police chases a thing of the past?

Police cruisers and getaway cars are racing toward an unknown future.

People taking photos of glowing lava on Cape Verde
Physics

These islanders live and thrive alongside lava

Photographer Cris Toala Olivares visits communities who've built a relationship with one of nature's most terrifying forces.

Melting glacier pink
Ocean

Collecting ancient geomyths could give scientists new insights on climate change

According to researchers, some stories capture historical sea level rise that happened thousands of years ago.

This US Space Force telescope in Australia will keep tabs on unusual satellite activity
Air Force

This US Space Force telescope in Australia will keep tabs on unusual satellite activity

The surveillance tool became operational in September.

One secret to excellent memory in old age? Giant neurons.
Biology

One secret to excellent memory in old age? Giant neurons.

The neurons may help prevent the formation of tangled tau proteins, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.