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Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, on three Polaroid photos
Fossil Fuels

This historic Brooklyn cemetery shows us a future without lawns

A climate-friendly experiment to let lawns grow into meadows at Green-Wood Cemetery has visitors—and landscapers—taking notice.

Get this: Fungus can make trash smell like strawberries
Environment

Get this: Fungus can make trash smell like strawberries

A fungus named Wolfiporia cocos fermented the leftovers from old berries to make a new, pleasant aroma.

Take control of your apps’ permissions
Tech Hacks

Take control of your apps’ permissions

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know what your apps are doing?

For the second time ever, someone was spontaneously cured of HIV
Diseases

For the second time ever, someone was spontaneously cured of HIV

Could this change our understanding of the immune system?

An Asian man with short hair and glasses wearing a black jacket and a green backpack while zooming in on something on the screen of his iPhone.
Tech Hacks

iOS 15 lets you tweak text size in individual apps. Here’s how.

This iPhone feature hasn't gotten a ton of attention, but it could be very useful.

person smelling coffee
Nutrition

Coffee and tea could lower your risk of dementia

A new survey of hundreds of thousands of adults cannot show a causal link, though.

Ice-capped mountains in Kathmandu, Nepal, seen from a Landsat satellite
Climate Change

See 24,000 years of climate history at a glance

A new analysis of hundreds of sediment cores shows the retreat of the glaciers in microscopic detail.

‘Explosive’ fire in California’s Sierra Nevada is much more likely on super hot, dry days
Environment

‘Explosive’ fire in California’s Sierra Nevada is much more likely on super hot, dry days

For each 1° Celsius increase in temperature, fire risk increases by about 20 percent.

A person using a laptop while another person points at the screen.
Tech Hacks

How to troubleshoot tech problems remotely

“Grandma, I’m out of town,” isn’t an excuse anymore.

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete
Physics

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

Your fingers are more powerful than a baseball pitcher’s arm.

Food scan by snapchat screens
Tech Hacks

Get some cooking inspiration with Snapchat’s new Food Scan feature

The tool will recommend recipes based on the ingredients you already have.

This week’s destroyed Russian satellite created even more dangerous space debris
International Space Station

This week’s destroyed Russian satellite created even more dangerous space debris

A Russian missile smacked into Kosmos-1408, producing hazards that put the ISS at risk. Here's what we know.

Rift by Oculus (2013)
Technology

Athletic virtual reality avatars might make exercise feel easier

Participants who cycled while using athletic VR avatars had lower heart rates.

Twitter for web
Social Media

Twitter’s changing up the way you see tweets

Say goodbye to the “disappearing tweet” with the platform’s new web update.

rear view of the Google Pixel 6 phone
Tech Hacks

6 cool camera tricks you can do on the new Pixel 6 phones

Google's latest flagship devices come with some smart photo wizardry.

This diamond holds a never-before-seen mineral that can’t exist on Earth’s surface
Environment

This diamond holds a never-before-seen mineral that can’t exist on Earth’s surface

The gem acted like a capsule, returning a sample from the planet's mantle.

Classroom with textbooks, backpacks, whiteboard
Climate Change

Many US students won’t find accurate climate science in their textbooks

The climate crisis is here, but you wouldn't necessarily know that from high school required reading.

Hands tying into phone
Tech Hacks

5 keyboard apps for when you just need to type

Is it too much to ask?

Typing
Life Skills

Become a better writer with these online tools

Good for Twitter rants or what could be the next great American novel.

A deer looks down a snowy trail at two women walking.
Diseases

The animal kingdom is full of coronaviruses. Here’s what that means for COVID’s future.

Like the flu, SARS-CoV-2 is poised to keep jumping between people and animals.