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A line of firefighters dig with hand tools to construct fireline in a forest.
Environment

What it really means for a wildfire to be ‘contained’

It's not about putting out all the flames.

air pollution over a city
Technology

You can now use Google Maps to find fresh air

Here’s how to use the new feature before heading out this summer.

Gold and green champagne bottle with cork popped and bubbles rushing out on a black background
Physics

Popping a champagne cork creates supersonic shockwaves

How fluid dynamics explain bubbly ballistics.

This new electric motorcycle is built for long-range adventures
Electric Vehicles

This new electric motorcycle is built for long-range adventures

Meet the Energica Experia, a 'green tourer' designed to cover impressive distances.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will look for dark energy and matter.
Space Telescope

In NASA’s new video game, you are a telescope hunting for dark matter

Zip around the cosmos catching space objects in 'Roman Space Observer.'

A giant Hyundai cargo ship’s long haul in the Pacific was at least partly autonomous
Self Driving

A giant Hyundai cargo ship’s long haul in the Pacific was at least partly autonomous

Prism Courage travelled about half of its 20,000-kilometer journey with the autonomous system active.

a key on a black background
Internet

Apple’s passkeys could be better than passwords. Here’s how they’ll work.

Can a new system improve the way we sign into websites and apps?

FAST, a giant radio observatory, sensed an fast radio burst.
Space

Astronomers caught a potent radio burst blasting at us from a dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away

The origin of brief and super-energetic radio waves remains unknown.

Iceland topography from above
AI

Google Earth Engine is taking its closest look yet at how landscapes are changing

The Dynamic World project can provide details on how land use is affected by climate change and human activity.

Vaccination is one of the best ways to protect against COVID.
Science

Moderna is testing an Omicron-specific COVID vaccine. Here’s how it’s faring.

The vaccine maker is seeking to make the booster available later this summer.

NASA James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments, shaped as hexagons and coated in gold, being inspected by an engineer prior to launch
Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope survived its first collision

It definitely won't be its last.

Tidal turbine against cloudy sky.
Renewables

Tidal turbines put a new spin on the power of the ocean

This tech uses the changing tides to create reliable, renewable energy.

A person sitting at a light wooden desk in front of an Apple desktop computer, scrolling through Instagram on their iPhone.
Tech Hacks

How to craft an exquisite Instagram story collage

Make your stories stand out.

A dog in a sushi house
AI

Why you can’t use Google’s impressive text-to-image generator Imagen yet

Google released a paper discussing the moral and ethical challenges of making Imogen open-access.

$500 banknote from Bank of Jamaica
Cryptocurrency

Jamaica is the latest nation to dive into digital currencies

Jamaican citizens will soon be able to use a digital wallet to access a new currency called Jam-Dex.

Lithium batteries in a pile.
Science

This lithium-ion battery kept going (and going and going) in the extreme cold

Subzero temperatures were no match for the experimental battery.

Ocean simulator in giant saltwater tank at the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California. A Scripps researcher in a checkered shirt adjusts the settings on a computer with a COVID mask around his elbow.
Ocean

A 120-foot-long ocean simulator is now making waves across the seven seas

What happens in the mysterious layer between the ocean's surface and the air? A massive experimental machine in San Diego aims to help us understand.

A Roblox character standing in the middle of a street in a virtual city.
Tech Hacks

A parent’s guide to the vast world of Roblox

This simple, wide-ranging game is popular with young kids for a reason.

In 'The Wine-Dark Sea Within,' a cardiologist describes the history of how we understand blood flow.
Health

No one knew how our blood moved—until this doctor realized the heart is a pump

In 'The Wine-Dark Sea Within,' cardiologist Dhun Sethna describes a 17th-century insight that revolutionized medicine.

An image of the Thwaites Glacier from NASA
Climate Change

Our biggest glacier problem is melting from the bottom-up

Warmer waters are eroding the base of Antartica’s troubled Thwaites Glacier, and it’s only getting worse.