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Hot pink, floating, circular HIV particles like those discovered in high virulent varient.
Diseases

A highly virulent, but treatable, HIV strain has been quietly circulating since the ’90s

While it might be more contagious, it is not necessarily more deadly.

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Self Driving

This autonomous Toyota race car can drift like a pro

The person in the driver's seat wasn't driving. Here's why Toyota is conducting this research.

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Tech Hacks

4 RSS apps to stay in the know

An old technology that has thrived and survived for a reason.

Chimney smoke
Fossil Fuels

Hitting Biden’s greenhouse goals could save billions in health-related costs

No extra effort necessary.

A doctor talks to a patient who is sitting on an MRI machine's bed.
Vaccines

Who gets an organ transplant? Waitlist rules are complicated.

A COVID vaccine may be only one of many priorities for a transplant patient.

Robotic cartographers created these colorful cave maps
DARPA

Robotic cartographers created these colorful cave maps

Two new videos from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge reveal underground spaces—as charted by robots.

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COVID-19

‘Preliminary research’ on COVID has been surprisingly solid

Preprint studies have been critical for fast-moving science and public accessibility during the pandemic—but not without criticism.

A blonde woman in a white bathrobe smiling and lying on a white bed in a blue room.
Projects

Redesign your bedroom for a better night’s sleep

Make your room of rest the very best.

A prototype carrying the LAZA wing system
Robots

These robot wings use artificial muscle to flap like an insect

A prototype bot from engineers at the University of Bristol flies like an insect and looks like the golden snitch.

a gray wolf looks over its shoulder in the snow
Endangered Species

Snowy weather could determine life or death for Wisconsin’s poached gray wolves

A new analysis highlights how human activity and weather could make certain times of year more perilous than others for wolves.

A clinician readies a vaccine for injection.
Vaccines

The first people have received an experimental mRNA HIV vaccine

Moderna is hoping its mRNA technology will succeed where other HIV vaccines failed.

A man wearing a straight-brimmed baseball cap, watching TV on his phone while wearing black over-the-ear headphones.
Tech Hacks

The apps you need to watch movies and TV on your phone

Turn on, tune in, sit back.

Foundation of house destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
Sustainability

Brad Pitt’s affordable housing project in New Orleans failed Hurricane Katrina survivors

For the city's residents, it was a second disaster to overcome.

How to safely share your phone with others
Tech Hacks

How to safely share your phone with others

Yes, including that friend who keeps running out of battery.

firefighters stand by a car that was on fire
Electric Vehicles

A new study has some surprising findings on car fires

An analysis from an insurance group ranks the likelihood of fires in EVs, hybrids, and combustion-engine vehicles. Here's what they found.

Person throwing COVID-19 disposable mask in trash can.
COVID-19

This new recycling system could keep COVID PPE out of landfills

A potential win for the planet as the pandemic rages on.

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Mental Health

One of the biggest suicide prevention hotlines amends its data-sharing practices

The mental health services provider will no longer share scrubbed data with Loris.ai.

trash bin with wrinkled up paper
Tech Hacks

The recycle bin settings you didn’t know you needed

You can keep your erased files around for longer than you might think.

A Uzbekistani doctor holds up a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in front of the company's logo.
Vaccines

A COVID vaccine for young US children may be closer than ever

Pfizer and BioNTech could request FDA authorization as early as Tuesday.

Instagram-on-web-browser
Tech Hacks

Why the web version of Instagram is better than the app

Bells and whistles aren't always a good thing.