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Mental Health

How to manage your mental health as traumatic events pile up

Focusing on your community is one way you can help yourself and others.

Solar panels on field.
Renewables

Rusty metal could be the battery the energy grid needs

We need more ways to store renewable energy. Is it time for metal-air batteries to shine?

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Weapons

The US flew its most iconic Cold War bomber over Europe

The B-52 sorties traveled from the United Kingdom to Romania and back. Here's why.

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Tech Hacks

How to securely store and share sensitive files

A tin foil hat that actually works.

A storm cloud brought by the North American monsoon hangs over the desert near Tombstone, Arizona.
Climate Change

Why the North American monsoon is unlike any other

Researchers find that the jet stream and the mountains help feed the seasonal rainfall in the American Southwest.

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Projects

Build your own hot glue gun stand to prove you know more than scalding goop

A project to keep your crafting clean and safe.

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COVID-19

A deep dive on the evolution of COVID and its variants

The reason we know so much about how SARS-CoV-2 works is because virologists have been tracking its mutations in real time. What they've seen has floored them.

Hydrogen fuel could change the way aircraft work, and look
Aviation

Hydrogen fuel could change the way aircraft work, and look

A transition to hydrogen would mean rethinking a great deal about aircraft design. A futuristic Airbus test will help experts learn more.

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Tech Hacks

How to decide where to put your TV in your living room (or anywhere else)

There's more to it than you might think!

quantum entangled system will be hosted on ISS
NASA

NASA is launching a new quantum entanglement experiment in space

The researchers will test if their tech can produce and detect quantum entanglement on the International Space Station.

A dripping faucet
Health

Headed back to the office? Make sure your building has flushed out its water.

Vacancies can allow microbes and metals to build up in the plumbing.

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Fossil Fuels

What the bans on Russian fossil fuels actually mean

Prices are up—but so is the pressure to switch to electrify everything.

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024
Moons

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024

NASA's rushed timeline for the Artemis moon mission is pretty much kaput.

Outside of Kyiv maternity hospital with sandbags in windows due to Russian airstrikes on Ukraine
Health

Russian bombing of a Ukrainian hospital could violate the Geneva Convention

Medical facilities, vehicles, and workers should be off limits, as per the "rules of war."

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Tech Hacks

6 mobile clipboard managers to up your copy and paste game

Filling out forms on your phone is easier now.

Pile of plastic bottles and waste.
Sustainability

It is time to make plastic-recycling labels less confusing

Nearly one in four Americans don't understand what current plastic labels mean at all.

an F-22 fighter jet
Air Force

The Air Force wants to modernize air refueling, but it’s been a bumpy ride

An inside look at how these old planes work—and how the tech underpinning the fleet is slowly evolving.

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Projects

Build your own website, no code required

No HTML, no problem.

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Tech Hacks

Get your phone to send you the breaking news alerts you want

Read all about it.

tank traps
Weapons

Ukraine’s answer to Russian tanks involves a classic tactic: metal ‘hedgehogs’

These tank traps are also known as Czech Hedgehogs, and their use dates back to the 1930s. Here's how they work.