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Tech Hacks

Hack Netflix with these add-ons and tricks

Supercharge your streaming.

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Global Warming

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting in more ways than we thought

A channel of warm water is threatening a glacier that holds back a massive ice river.

Google Maps
Technology

Google Maps is about to get better—especially if you take public transportation

The service has been around for 15 years, and is introducing a revamped look and new features.

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DIY

Be ready to move on when your apps bite the dust

Life after app death.

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NASA

NASA’s plan to build stuff in space just took its first step

Construction in orbit will lead to bigger, better satellites.

Chicken broth in a mug.
Nutrition

Bone broth: a miraculous health tonic, or just a crock of soup?

Not all healthy food has to be a “superfood.”

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Life Skills

How to find drinkable water in the wild

There’s one thing you should look for, above all else.

Apple TV remote
Tech Hacks

Get more from AppleTV+ with these easy tricks

New streaming service, new tricks to try.

wasps
Agriculture

A healthy wasp microbiome can fend off pesticides

Scientists hope to one day develop probiotics that shield humans too.

Building an app is hard.
Security

The Iowa caucus app never had a chance

What does it really take to make an important app? Planning, testing, and money.

human skeleton
Health

You’ll never have as many bones as you did at birth (and other strange skeleton facts)

The scoop on your scaffolding.

Osteoclast cells make way for new bone growth in a mouse femur.
Medicine

These trippy images reveal the colorful inner lives of bones

Dive inside the universe of collagen, calcium, cartilage, and more.

smog over LA viewed from plane
Pollution

Decades of U.S. air quality improvements may be slowing, and these areas have it the worst

Millions of Americans breathed unhealthy air in 2018.

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Health

Wuhan’s new hospitals are sorely needed, but they won’t stop the spread of disease

It’s impossible to catch every case.

Old photo prints.
Technology

Google’s wants AI to choose your best photos and mail you prints every month

The $7.99 subscription is in its test phase now, but it would get you 10 curated prints per month.

Diego the giant tortoise at a captive-breeding facility
Endangered Species

Did a high sex drive really save the giant tortoise from extinction?

The great Diego fathered more than 800 offspring. That doesn’t mean he’s any hornier than other tortoises.

Hands holding an open wallet
Life Skills

Shrink your ever-expanding wallet

It’s mostly junk, really.

a firefly sitting on a leaf
Pollution

Humans are putting fireflies at risk of extinction

A new study identifies three major threats to these beautiful bugs.

A ginger cat with its eyes closed and chin tucked up
Cats

We’re surprisingly bad at reading cats’ facial expressions

An interactive quiz lets people measure their skills, while collecting behavioral data for animal welfare and science.

Totto Renna illustration
Physics

Ranked: the loudest sounds ever measured

These graphs show just how bombastic volcanoes and meteorites can be.