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Life Skills

5 essential apps for brewing your own beer

Brewing comes with some math homework—but there are apps for that.

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Wildlife

Can I have a pet fox?

A look into the messy world of fox breeding and exotic pets.

a sperm whale swimming under water
Evolution

Megalodons liked to snack on sperm whale snouts

Nothing like a giant, fatty noggin to really hit the spot.

A photo of a phone with someone using Yandex while Russia severely censors the internet.
Internet

How Russia’s ‘digital iron curtain’ threatens all of us

As Kremlin tightens control over Russians’ online lives, it threatens domestic freedoms and the global internet.

USS Samuel B Roberts
Technology

How a two-person sub and a repurposed Navy ship discovered the deepest shipwreck yet

The USS Samuel B. Roberts was found off the coast of the Philippines last week. These are the tools explorers used to locate it.

Field of pearl millet grain crops
Agriculture

Pee makes for great fertilizer. But is it safe?

Treated urine contains the same great ingredients that make fertilizers so effective.

a 747 lands at sunset
Aviation

How pilots stick their landings in ‘hot and high’ cities

How a flying lesson in Massachusetts, and facts about the structure of the atmosphere, inform landing a 747 in Kenya.

Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska holding her Fields Medal.
Physics

These 4 problem-solvers just won one of math’s biggest prizes

The Fields Medal is kind of like an Olympic gold in mathematics.

microwave with metal
DIY

6 metal myths and tips for cooking

How to master using metal in the kitchen.

LHC consumes as much energy as a city. Can particle accelerators be greener?
Particle Physics

The green revolution is coming for power-hungry particle accelerators

Future accelerators may be able to capture spent energy, or use greener cooling gases.

Bearded dad holding a newborn baby in a blue onesie and reading a picture book
Life Skills

The best way to choose a parenting book

Babies don't come with instruction manuals, but a good self-help book can be just as helpful.

The US’s latest assist to Ukraine: Rocket launchers with a 43-mile range
Weapons

The US’s latest assist to Ukraine: Rocket launchers with a 43-mile range

A total of eight High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, will help Ukraine. Here's what they do.

A Honda Element parked off-road in an open area by a large rock
Life Skills

A beginner’s guide to choosing the perfect van-life vehicle

Gas mileage and reliability are factors, but so is pure, simple fun.

Hot dogs in buns with ketchup, mustard, and other toppings
Nutrition

How many hot dogs would it take to kill you?

Frankly, we’d be surprised if you made it past a dozen.

Soil with small green plants.
Wildlife

Diverse microbes are key to healthy soil. Climate change is threatening that.

Protecting biodiversity must extend to even the tiniest living things.

Fat baby seal looking at the camera
Ocean

Facial recognition works on seals. No, really.

A neural network, trained using thousands of photos of harbor seals, offers a noninvasive way of telling seals apart.

Yellow citrus home-brewed iced tea with lemon slices and metal straws in front of a black background
Life Skills

3 quick ways to brew refreshing iced tea at home

Tips from a converted hot-tea devotee.

A green branch. The stem is covered in small, scale-shaped bugs. A wasp is perched above them on a leaf.
Insects

How hungry, stingless wasps became USDA’s weapon of choice to save southern citrus trees

Fighting bugs with bugs.

highway in LA
Technology

The DOT is investing $1 billion to address historic transportation inequities

Here’s how communities might benefit from the new federal grant program.

Hand holding firework and american flag against dark night
Life Skills

Fireworks can trigger PTSD. Here’s how you can help yourself and others find ease.

There's a darker side to fireworks.