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Black Holes

Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast

Researchers may have witnessed a black hole or a neutron star’s birth.

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Tech Hacks

What to know about using Google Calendar’s Time Insights feature

Look into the past and the future.

a COVID-19 at-home test
COVID-19

Which at-home COVID-19 test should you buy?

Everything you need to know about the growing number of at-home testing options for COVID.

Antarctica's icy Thwaites glacier in 2017
Climate Change

The ‘doomsday’ glacier is on the brink of collapse

Something scary is brewing under the surface of Antarctica.

Toyota is finally charging ahead with its electric vehicle plans
Electric Vehicles

Toyota is finally charging ahead with its electric vehicle plans

The company revealed 15 EV concepts earlier this week. Here's what they look like.

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Life Skills

How to escape the wasteful excess of CVS receipts

No more XXXL receipts.

A gloved hand holds a vial of COVID vaccine.
Vaccines

Why the CDC now recommends mRNA COVID vaccines over J&J’s

Any COVID vaccine is better than no vaccine at all, the health agency made clear.

tesla car steering wheel
Self Driving

What we know so far about the fatal Tesla crash in Paris

French authorities are currently investigating the accident in which a Tesla vehicle hit a cyclist and pedestrians before crashing into a van.

Blue plate with gingerbread muffins
Life Skills

The best substitutions for milk, eggs, and other baking essentials

Use vegan baking techniques to get those cookies and cakes in the oven.

Black person with long natural hair using a VR headset to enter the metaverse
Social Media

Could the metaverse amplify online harassment?

Here’s how to make the next iteration of the internet more inclusive.

robot fish that mimics mosquitofish predator
Robots

Need to fight invasive fish? Just introduce a scary robot

If it looks like a bass and is terrorizing mosquitofish, it might actually be a robot designed to protect native tadpoles.

Tornado destruction in Chattanooga, Tennesee
Climate Change

‘Tornado alley’ looks far different than it did a century ago

Warming weather and a shifting tornado zone could lead to more disastrous tornado events.

This eyeless millipede shattered the record for most legs
Insects

This eyeless millipede shattered the record for most legs

Meet Eumillipes persephone, the millipede with 1,300 legs.

This material uses a physics trick to keep roofs cool in summer and warm in winter
Environment

This material uses a physics trick to keep roofs cool in summer and warm in winter

To build a better roof coating, try vanadium oxide.

Faint red plutonium core for nuclear weapons on black
Weapons

Why Los Alamos lab is working on the tricky task of creating new plutonium cores

Plutonium cores, or pits, are the triggers for thermonuclear weapons.

Aging walls of an old Alcoa aluminum plant on concrete polluted ground
Cancer

A North Carolina town struggles under the toxic shadow of the company that built it

Residents of Badin are confronting the fallout from decades of racism, mismanagement, and pollution.

A series of brightly colored lines indicating a human genome.
Health

The benchmark for human diversity is based on one man’s genome. A new tool could change that.

Instead of looking at one single genome, researchers are mapping out "a network of possibilities.”

a color illustration of a brown and white bird in a lush forest
Evolution

This 120-million-year-old bird could stick out its tongue

Birds aren't mocking you when they stick out their tongue. A new fossil discovery gives clues to what the ancient behavior might mean.

robot fingers grabbing egg
Robots

Engineers created a robotic hand with a gecko-like grip

Watch this robotic hand grab hold of an egg, fruits, a large plastic container, and a jug of orange juice.

A giant tornado moves fast along a highway towards a town miles ahead
Climate Change

Hurricane-force winds broke a single-day record while smashing the Midwest’s power grid

Climate change-induced heat waves in the Great Plains might be at play.