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Fitness tracking
Tech Hacks

Switching to a new fitness app? Here’s how to bring your data with you.

Change up your platform.

Oxygen might not lead us to aliens after all
Exoplanets

Oxygen might not lead us to aliens after all

A new study shows us why we may want to rethink how we search for extraterrestrial life.

The best science jokes to make you laugh, groan, and Google
Science

The best science jokes to make you laugh, groan, and Google

Why did the bored internet user click on the link? You're about to find out.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg just had cancer surgery—here’s why she should be okay
Cancer

Ruth Bader Ginsburg just had cancer surgery—here’s why she should be okay

The Supreme Court Justice had malignant pulmonary nodes removed.

twin baby boys
Health

Teething necklaces, gels, and rings can be dangerous. Here’s what to use instead.

The FDA warns that jewelry marketed as baby-safe is anything but.

Phone laptop CV resume builder
Life Skills

Seven apps to level up your resume

Make your job applications stand out.

Loblolly pine trees in North Carolina
Renewables

Tree resin could replace fossil fuels in everything from printer ink to shoe polish

Genetically engineered trees could supply the chemicals needed to make glue, paint, varnish and other household goods.

holiday pregnancy test
Evolution

Like other animals, humans have a breeding season—and it’s right now

‘Tis the season for conception.

Facebok privacy
Security

You don’t have to delete Facebook, but you could definitely be using it better

Your Facebook account is spraying your personal info onto the internet like a hose. Here's how to stop it.

Close-up image of a polar bear underwater.
Bears

The inventors of the polar bear treadmill are back with a new scientific contraption

Watch Nora the polar bear swim for science.

airplane bathroom window
Aviation

Your next domestic flight could have a big window in the bathroom

Aircraft windows affect everything from a plane's weight to how passengers perceive cleanliness.

a mug with lemons and tea sitting on a snow-covered table
Health

Find out if your holiday travels will take you into a flu zone

It’s already getting bad in some parts of the country.

Finding opioid alternatives in cone snail stings
Biology

Finding opioid alternatives in cone snail stings

To Baldomero Olivera, venom is nature's drug industry.

Multi-colored plastic straws.
Pollution

The EU just finalized an agreement to ban tons of single-use plastics

What next?

Atlas V rocket launch
NASA

This is why rocket launches always get delayed

Weather, weather, and sometimes boats.

a naked mole rat braces itself inside a tube
Animals

9 jaw-dropping facts about naked mole rats to celebrate the bloody ascent of their new queen

Long may she reign.

gun mortality by year
Weapons

We’re creeping back up to mid ‘90s-level gun death rates

Nearly 40,000 people died in 2017 from firearms.

a drawing of a big purple planet
Space

Meet Farout, the new most distant member of our solar system

It's the farthest object we've ever spotted in our neighborhood.

This microscope could look for life on Jupiter’s moon
Solar System

This microscope could look for life on Jupiter’s moon

Shamu dreams of Europa.

Too impatient to meditate? A mild shock to the scalp could help.
Health

Too impatient to meditate? A mild shock to the scalp could help.

The benefits of being mindful take time, but there might be a way to speed them up.