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The Home Depot's battery-powered yard tool sale.
Home

The Home Depot just dropped season-low prices on battery-powered chainsaws, mowers, trimmers, and more

Revamp your entire arsenal of outdoor power tools including mowers, trimmers, blowers, and chainsaws.

foot on spiky ball
Fitness & Exercise

6 stretches to relieve plantar fasciitis pain, according to a physical therapist

Stretches, exercises, and myofascial options to help your achy feet.

Golden light illuminates a clear teapot of green tea and two glass cups with citrus slices. A cloche of biscuits and a small bowl sit behind them, while steam and long shadows create a calm, cozy tea-time mood.
Food Safety

What’s the secret to a great cup of tea?

From where the Camellia sinensis bush is grown to whether the leaves are withered or fermented, much can influence the popular drink’s molecular and flavor profile.

adult owl and baby owl
Birds

Owl saved from electrical fence adopts abandoned owlet

Staff at a wildlife center paired a baby-less owl mother with mother-less baby owl.

A medium-shot photograph shows a smiling senior woman with blonde hair riding a black bicycle through a park. She is wearing a black puffer jacket and grey trousers, and she is looking ahead with a joyful expression. The background is a soft blur of green grass and dark leafy bushes, emphasizing the motion of the bike.
Ask Us Anything

Why you never forget how to ride a bike

The brain stores skills differently than facts, making them harder to forget.

Man using metal detector at beach
Life Skills

How to start metal detecting

Don't go out wandering aimlessly looking for treasure. A little research can make your metal detecting hobby much more rewarding.

Seamstress Jean Wilson applies finishing touches to one section of a spacesuit for NASA's Apollo lunar missions on a long-arm sewing machine, built especially for manufacturing the spacesuits.
NASA

The bra-and-girdle maker that fashioned the impossible for NASA

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers—every stitch could mean life or death.

two cheetah cubs
Endangered Species

Two cheetah cubs narrowly escape the illegal pet trade

Most trafficked cubs don’t survive the journey—these two made it out just in time.

tv on a stand
Tech Hacks

How to stop your smart TV from tracking you

Do you know how much your TV knows about you?

Pieces of Japanese plate armor arranged against pink background
Archaeology

Armor buried under Japanese temple linked to ancient Korean kingdom

Archaeologists have confirmed the armor's origins 70 years after its discovery.

Every type of tools is on salle at The Home Depot.
Home

The Home Depot is blowing out power tools from RIDGID, DeWalt, Milwaukee, and more during its huge spring sale

DeWalt, Milwaukee, and RIDGID power tools are deeply discounted during The Home Depot's Spring Black Friday sale. Free tool promos make these deals even better.

A black BandBox Trio with bold JBL logo in the foreground with a Gibson guitar standing in its case behind it
Speakers

JBL BandBox Trio practice amplifier review: A party speaker for musicians, not just music

The JBL BandBox Trio mixes a battery-powered guitar amp, party speaker, and karaoke box into one surprisingly useful smart practice rig—just don’t expect full-size amp power or deep-modeler tone.

Sage-Grouse robot installed in ground at Grand Teton National Park
Land

Robot birds deployed in Grand Teton National Park for sexy time

The bid to boost sage-grouse populations continues.

Half way progress of a piggy bank being 3D-printed
Technology

How sulfur could fix 3D printing’s waste problem

Scientists are printing recyclable robots from industrial byproducts.

A portrait-style photograph shows a life-like reconstruction of an early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis, against a dark, blurred background. The figure is shown from the chest up, with its head turned to look over its shoulder toward the camera. It has prominent brow ridges, a flat nose, and large, dark, expressive eyes. Its skin is a dark tan, and its head and body are covered in short, reddish-brown hair.
Evolution

Why humans don’t have tails

The answer goes back at least 20 million years.

construction on large building
AI

Data centers are straining the grid. Can they be forced to pay for it?

As backlash grows, a nationwide search is underway for solutions to the AI energy crunch.

The inside of the finished L.A.B. Golf Fitting Studio in Creswell, Ore.
Outdoor Gear

A year later, L.A.B. Golf’s weird science got bigger … and more personal

Linking up again because of the the new LINK.2 blades, I returned to Oregon’s esoteric putter manufacturer expecting a more traditional path into zero-torque putting. The data steered me elsewhere.

Lystrosaurus embryo within its partially preserved shell , reconstruction of the animal. Credit: Professor Julien Benoit and Sophie Vrard
Evolution

Proto-mammals laid eggs, paleontologists finally confirm

Lystrosaurus fills in a major evolutionary gap.

INIU chargers on sale during the spring sale
Gear

Save up to 30% on portable power banks, charging bricks, cables, and other essential accessories during INIU’s spring sale

INIU makes affordable charging accessories and the prices have dropped even lower during this spring season sale.

Illustration of two astronauts sitting on toilets while looking at their phones
NASA

Even astronauts get constipated in space

NASA packed laxatives on Artemis II for a reason.