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Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber silhouetted next to a full moon
Air Force

Google Earth caught a $2 billion stealth bomber on candid camera

"Stealth."

The planet Venus
Solar System

Something is making Venus’s clouds less acidic

Could living things explain unusual atmospheric chemistry on Venus?

a large fossil of a segmented bug in gray rock
Insects

How big did ancient millipedes get? Bigger than you’d like.

The accidental discovery is surprising in more ways than one.

DIY wooden coat hooks by the door
Projects

Custom coat hooks you can build in just a few hours

All you need is some lumber, coat hooks, and time.

an interior video of a parked Tesla
Electric Vehicles

The government is investigating why Tesla drivers can play solitaire at the wheel

Here's why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into the issue of video games and Teslas.

Pile of holiday cards that can be recycled to reduce waste
Life Skills

4 simple ways to reduce holiday waste

It’s the trashiest time of the year—but it doesn’t have to be.

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Spotted lanternfly goo is surprisingly tasty

Plus other fun facts from The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

One of the best-preserved dinosaur embryos ever found.
Dinosaurs

This fossilized dinosaur embryo is curled up just like a baby bird

The fossil hints that modern birds prepare for hatching similarly to their dinosaur relatives.

A woman with pigtails wearing sunglasses, holding a phone, and laughing under a blue sky.
Tech Hacks

Find your ‘Spotify Wrapped’ on more of your favorite apps

How did you spend the last 12 months?

computer servers
Security

Recent AWS glitches illustrate the power, and fragility, of cloud computing

Amazon Web Services and other major cloud providers underpin much of the internet. Here's what to know about them—and why they can fail.

a woman in a purple coat and a red hat looks at a shop covered in christmas lights
COVID-19

What the Omicron surge means for your holiday travel

Even vaccinated folks should be taking precautions.

a giraffe sticks its tongue out against the background of a bright blue sky
Animals

9 animal stories that made 2021 more ‘bearable’

These silly, shocking, and fascinating tales from the animal kingdom kept us going.

Kepler-186f-exoplanet
Exoplanets

There is no Planet B

The James Webb Space Telescope fuels our obsession with finding another Earth, but that misses the point.

Silver Lincoln Continental Mark in a showroom with the sunroof open
Vehicles

You probably don’t know the difference between a moonroof and a sunroof

Welcome to the fascinating world of mildly open-top motoring.

A desktop computer on a dark-colored desk with an Instagram profile open on the screen, perhaps to embed the Instagram profile on a website.
Tech Hacks

How to embed an Instagram profile on any website (and keep people from embedding yours)

A reminder that if your profile is public, it can be shared anywhere.

More skunks can do handstands than we thought
Endangered Species

More skunks can do handstands than we thought

Three new species join the “acrobats of the skunk world.”

This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams.
Moons

Jupiter’s largest moon sounds like a friendly robot

The Juno spacecraft is listening to Ganymede’s magnetic whispers.

a person looks out a plane window and holds a smartphone
Aviation

Why 5G has airlines so spooked

What to know about the expansion of next-gen wireless networks and why the FAA and air carriers are concerned about it.

rows of offshore wind turbines
Renewables

The US could reliably run on clean energy by 2050

A new simulation highlights the stability of wind, solar, and water power.

James Webb telescope primary mirror coated in gold seen from a fisheye view looking up with engineers in masks and protective gear looking down from a blue ceiling
Space Telescope

The James Webb telescope will soon be hunting for ‘first light’

Set to launch this week, the telescope is built to see distant galaxies and atmospheres in infrared. Here's how.