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A person holding a phone with an Instagram story on the screen showing a website link on the post.
Tech Hacks

Anyone can add links to Instagram Stories now. Here’s how.

Relax—you can stop screaming “Link in bio!”

Steps of Cahokia at the green Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois
Archaeology

The biggest ancient city you’ve probably never heard of is in Illinois

The Cahokia Mounds offer a glimpse of one of the Americas' most powerful societies.

Glasgow, Scotland skyline during COP26
Climate Change

A guide to COP26 and its most important goals

Here's what to expect from the next two weeks of climate discussions.

DIGIT grasps marble
AI

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

Meta AI, previously Facebook AI Research, is working on touch sensors that can gather information about how objects feel in the real world.

Black family with kids and seniors beating back holiday stress around a white dinner table
Psychology

Holiday stress is all about expectations

It may have more to do with the ideas in your head than the annual meltdown over the turkey.

fmri dog
Dogs

Dogs can understand more complex words than we thought

Our furry friends might be understanding more than you think.

A white apartment building under cloudy skies.
Tech Hacks

How to secure your apartment-provided WiFi

Communal living is cool until it isn’t.

This solar-powered British drone will surveil from the stratosphere
Drones

This solar-powered British drone will surveil from the stratosphere

The PHASA-35 has a wingspan of 115 feet—the same as a Boeing 737—but it weighs just 330 pounds. The goal is to keep in the air for a year.

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Life Skills

3 ways you can try to make money from your tweets

The company has launched three different ways to cash in with your tweets.

A boy gets a vaccine while sitting on his mom's lap.
Vaccines

Why are kids’ immune systems different from adults’?

Here's what it takes to develop a COVID vaccine for kids.

oil spill on water sea surface
Fossil Fuels

Yemen’s defunct oil tanker could set off a public health crisis

The FSO Safer could spill over a million barrels of oil into the Red Sea at any moment.

The Army isn’t getting its fancy Microsoft AR goggles quite yet
Military

The Army isn’t getting its fancy Microsoft AR goggles quite yet

Here's why the IVAS gadget is delayed.

A large pot of chicken or beef bone broth with bits of bones, herbs and meat floating in the broth.
Projects

How to create a nutritious and hydrating bone broth

When the going gets rough, this simple bone broth recipe will tide you over.

Melting ice cap in the ocean aerial
Fossil Fuels

The oil and gas industry knew about climate change in the 1950s

Archival documents set the timeline of coverups even further back.

Colorful clothes hanging on a laundry line outside on a sunny day—one of the best ways to reduce microplastic pollution from laundry.
Life Skills

The secret to longer-lasting clothes will also reduce plastic pollution

Microplastics are a major threat, and a prime source is your washing machine.

Solar flare on the sun's orange surface in a NASA image
Sun

NASA images show the sun has had a rough week

Imagine if you had a massive magnetic field—and then farted.

Camera looking over the shoulder of a person sitting at a desk and looking at their Android phone
Tech Hacks

Watch your favorite TikTok over and over by setting it as a live wallpaper

If it’s not moving, it’s boring.

a small brown and red bird perched on a branch
Birds

You’ve heard of truffle pigs. Now get ready for truffle birds.

Scientists just found two species with a surprising fondness for fungi.

Baltimore checkerspot caterpillar curled up in a black and orange ball
Evolution

Inflatable tentacles and silk hats: See how caterpillars trick predators to survive

Baby moths and butterflies pull off some wild adaptations to dodge detection. Sam Jaffe’s photos give us a closer look.

Person with long hair theatrically gasping from a jump scare in a haunted house or horror movie
Psychology

Why do we keep falling for jump scares?

The making—and breaking—of the cheap thrills.