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How to stream music all around your house
Tech Hacks

How to stream music all around your house

Bring the tunes upstairs and downstairs.

Nuclear plant emitting smoke
Climate Change

Biden’s infrastructure act bets big on 3 types of ‘green’ energy tech

The US will spend billions on non-renewable energy sources over the next five years.

Black pug trying to eat dangerous foods for dogs and cats like pie
Pets

5 Thanksgiving foods that can be dangerous for dogs and cats

Hold the turkey skin and fatty gravy—your pet will thank you later.

cinnabar vermilion
Archaeology

These skeletons might be evidence of the oldest known mercury poisonings

Making red pigment from cinnabar may have caused toxic exposures in prehistoric Iberia.

Meta haptic glove demo
Robots

Meta gave a sneak peek of one of its first VR wearables

Seven years in the works, this tech has come a long way but is far from finished.

Your last-minute training guide to dominating this year’s Turkey Trot
Life Skills

Your last-minute training guide to dominating this year’s Turkey Trot

If you haven’t started preparing yet.

5 tips for tracking out-of-stock items this holiday season
Life Skills

5 tips for tracking out-of-stock items this holiday season

Go get them presents.

binary code balancing on a level
AI

Want ethical AI? Hand the keys to middle schoolers.

To zap bias from code, an MIT-developed curriculum teaches ethical concepts to youngsters.

audi headlights on road
Vehicles

Car headlights are getting a much-needed upgrade with the infrastructure act

Cars in the US will get a new update to a small but important feature.

typing on computer
Psychology

Here’s why your brain won’t let you remember new passwords

Multiple experiments in a new study indicate certain kinds of information never enter working memory.

an infrared heat map of butterfly wings
Physics

These infrared images show just how alive butterflies’ wings are

They contain “wing hearts” that pump blood and regulate temperatures.

A person holding a phone over a laptop.
Tech Hacks

Spend less time on your phone with this simple trick

One screen is better than two screens.

hands holding phone with the twitter verified account displayed on screen
Tech Hacks

How to score Twitter’s coveted blue checkmark

Be the real deal

Cybersecurity experts say $2 billion is too little, too late
Security

Cybersecurity experts say $2 billion is too little, too late

Funds from the infrastructure package are intended to help beef up US cyber defenses. Will it actually make a difference?

Red, yellow, and black cartoon character depicting overeating during the holidays and specifically Thanksgiving
Health

The extreme consequences of stuffing yourselves during the holidays

The biology of having just one more slice of pie.

This four-legged snake fossil was probably a skinny lizard
Animals

This four-legged snake fossil was probably a skinny lizard

The ancient reptile resembled “chubby spaghetti”.

Three white and pink Pfizer COVID antiviral pills in plastic packaging.
Vaccines

You might not be ‘fully vaccinated’ soon

Plus: Boosting the world's supply of mRNA shots, an order for Pfizer's antiviral pill, and more.

person outside wearing airepods touching an earbud
Tech Hacks

How to tell Siri and the Google Assistant to read out your phone notifications

Go full-on hands-free.

IBM quantum eagle chip
Physics

IBM’s latest quantum chip breaks the elusive 100-qubit barrier

The journey to Eagle wasn't easy, and it's only a pitstop on the way to IBM's 1,000-qubit vision.

The moon is pockmarked with craters, including holes made by rockets.
Moons

Pockets of frozen CO2 on the moon could fuel future space travel

A lunar map shows where solid carbon dioxide could exist, hidden from sunlight.