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In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels
Climate Change

In Ancient Ice, Clues That Scientists Are Underestimating Future Sea Levels

The cold, hard facts

You might be overusing hand sanitizer
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You might be overusing hand sanitizer

Alcohol doesn’t discriminate good microbes from bad ones.

A lawnmower, which you won't really need for a ground cover lawn, with a shovel and a broom for digging up your grass lawn.
Projects

It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow

A green yard without the grass.

An iPad Pro with a keyboard, on a windowsill surrounded by plants and bathed in sunlight.
Tech Hacks

The best apps for iPad Pro connoisseurs: 10 essentials to download right now

The best picks for Apple's advanced tablet.

A great white shark on the deck of a blue-sided research boat
Sharks

Follow Freya, the great white shark, as she beach hops along the Atlantic

Her fate is linked to the health of marine fish populations.

How a Nobel Prize winner spread the vitamin C myth
Health

How a Nobel Prize winner spread the vitamin C myth

Linus Pauling was a genius. He also spread a pervasive myth that's lasted for decades.

Our go-to weapon against heatwaves? A dirty backup power source.
Climate Change

Our go-to weapon against heatwaves? A dirty backup power source.

Meet the peakers.

How Tesla is using a supercomputer to train its self-driving tech
Self Driving

How Tesla is using a supercomputer to train its self-driving tech

Tesla's approach to autonomy is controversial: It relies on just cameras to see and understand the roads.

Anthotype images on wooden table
Projects

Spice up your art with turmeric, sunlight, and a 19th century photography technique

Kitchen photography is an actual thing.

Closeup of maraschino cherries
Projects

Preserve summer cherries by getting them drunk

Homemade Maraschinos can put any dessert or drink on top.

A speckled, white, beige, and lemon yellow gecko sits against a blue background.
Cancer

These popular pet lizards may hold the key to studying skin cancer

A gene responsible for a lemony leopard gecko color morph is also linked to melanoma in humans.

Powerhouse tips to improve your favorite video call app
Tech Hacks

Powerhouse tips to improve your favorite video call app

Do more with Zoom, FaceTime, Google Duo, Skype, Facebook Messenger, and Snapchat.

These ancient deep-sea fish can live five times as long as biologists expected
Endangered Species

These ancient deep-sea fish can live five times as long as biologists expected

Coelacanths have been roaming the oceans for millions of years.

Kepler-62f
Exoplanets

Kepler Search Finds Two New Cozy, Possibly Watery Planets Around Faraway Star

Scientists can't know for sure if the worlds have water. But they could, making them a potential habitat for life.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Technology

Special Effects 2014: ‘Captain America’ Achieves Wrinkley Nirvana

Old Peggy > explosions

Discovery Docks with Hubble
Space

The silliest names scientists have given very serious telescopes

Ranked!

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished
Science

NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished

A critical failure in Kepler's alignment may spell the end for the storied planet hunter.

The new Mission Master XT is a massive military self-driving pack mule
Self Driving

The new Mission Master XT is a massive military self-driving pack mule

The robot's four enormous tires can keep rolling even if they have holes in them. Its job is to carry supplies for soldiers.

rooftop solar panel on house
Renewables

Power companies are lobbying to make rooftop solar more expensive

Whether for profit or to avoid widespread rate hikes, the outcome might make generating your own electricity less appealing.

Aliens used to keep our fear of extinction at bay—then we realized how alone we are
Space

Aliens used to keep our fear of extinction at bay—then we realized how alone we are

How a silent cosmos got us thinking about the future.