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The annual Southwest Monsoon brings a wall of moisture to Death Valley National Park.

There are pros and cons to handing out medals to children who haven’t actually won anything.

This boxy model is versatile and perfect for a van-life build.

Starting in the 1970s, Texas fishing communities banded together against Formosa and the Ku Klux Klan. Kirk Wallace Johnson documents it all in his new book.

The industry-standard Blue Yeti USB microphone still has the sound, the looks, and the brawn to satisfy.

Made for all shapes and sizes, the best dog crates contain and protect their occupants.

Find the best sprinkler system to make your lawn the envy of the block.

The migratory monarch butterfly was flagged as endangered on the IUCN Red List, but federal protection in the US is still up in the air.

The US still uses Cold War-era tech to calibrate vacuums for manufacturing. Is there a more precise (and fun) option out there?

It’s a plane, it’s a train, it’s the hyperloop FluxJet from TransPod.

Meta asked the internet to help with a new chatbot last Friday. So far, it’s a disaster.

No AC? No problem.

Reconstructing the visual proteins from whales’ early ancestors suggests they were deep-sea divers. The clever technique could help scientists understand the capabilities of other extinct species.

When you know where to look, finding something to watch or listen to is so much easier.

Together, these policies can fund pressing change on an urgent timeline.

A Navy fuel facility sitting above Oahu’s biggest freshwater system has been flooding the surrounding landscape with toxins for decades. Now Red Hill is finally being forced to shut down.

It's cleared for deployment.

Scientists discover that fish scales sourced from fish waste can be turned into the nanostructures that are used to make LEDs.

Most fusion experiments take place in giant doughnut-shaped reactors. Physicists want to test a smaller peanut-like one instead.

The world’s least understood ignition source is causing devastating wildfires across Montana’s Powder River Basin.