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Miranda to Europa: You think you’ve got treacherous landing zones? Hold my beer
Moons

Miranda to Europa: You think you’ve got treacherous landing zones? Hold my beer

Meet the moon with 11 mile high cliff

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: eating your own twin, embalmed milk, and levitating frogs

Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.

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Psychology

This wacky-looking font can help you remember what you read

Typefaces are typically easy to read. Not Sans Forgetica.

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Weather

Hurricane forecasts can be confusing—here’s a helpful glossary

All the terms you need to know to stay ahead of the storm.

Hurricane Michael is slamming into Florida as a devastating category 4
Weather

Hurricane Michael is slamming into Florida as a devastating category 4

An unpleasant surprise for the region.

Hiral Tipirneni
Science

These scientists may be your next members of Congress

We spoke to candidates with science backgrounds from across the political spectrum

This machine could turn your power walking into usable energy
Renewables

This machine could turn your power walking into usable energy

Is your body the new clean energy battery?

Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought
Environment

Mount Vesuvius murdered its victims in more brutal ways than we thought

Boiling blood and exploding skulls.

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Health

So, what’s the deal with homeopathy?

Excerpt: The Sawbones Book

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Military

Innovation, war, and glory: the soldier-scientist who unlocked the secrets of the Sahara

The amazing tale of Ralph Bagnold, a soldier, scientist, and scourge of the Axis Powers.

All the cool new gadgets from Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone launch event
Technology

All the cool new gadgets from Google’s Pixel 3 smartphone launch event

Live from Google's announcement event in New York City.

Voyager 2 is almost outside the sun’s protective bubble
Space

Voyager 2 is almost outside the sun’s protective bubble

It follows its predecessor toward where no other (active) spacecraft has gone before.

Smoke billows out of tall cement smokestacks against a grey sky.
Global Warming

What you should know about the new climate change report

We have the technological capability to stop our earth from warming further. But it looks like that won't happen.

Gene editing can’t help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice
Gene Editing

Gene editing can’t help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice

A promising proof of concept.

Hacking
Security

A running list of hacks, leaks, and vulnerabilities that have recently given up your personal information

Maybe it's time to change that password.

blades of snow and ice under a dark sky
Space

Fifty-foot-tall ice spikes might make it hard to land on Europa

There's still a lot to learn about the surface of Jupiter's moon

a satellite view of hurricane florence
Weather

Hurricane categories consider windspeed but ignore one of the deadliest effects

The Saffir-Simpson Scale isn't working, but we can't abandon it.

Throwing knives is growing more popular—here’s how to get started
Life Skills

Throwing knives is growing more popular—here’s how to get started

Toss around some steel.

yoga pose flexible
Fitness & Exercise

Is it possible to be too flexible?

Yoga might make you too bendy without making you strong enough to handle it.

Drunk birds are wreaking havoc in Minnesota
Birds

Drunk birds are wreaking havoc in Minnesota

Here's why experts call our desire to drink an ‘evolutionary hangover.’