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Ask Us Anything

Why do our fingers wrinkle in water? It’s much deeper than skin.

A study of polio patients almost 90 years ago gave scientists their first big clue.

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Birds

‘Geesekeepers’ protect Canada goose nesting at Chicago’s Wrigley Field

Holy cow! The goose appears to bring the Chicago Cubs better luck than billy goats.

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Tech Hacks

How to use Windows Safe Mode to get out of computer trouble 

Yes, even if you face the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.

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Diseases

Everything you need to know about bird flu

How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

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Pets

15 delightful images from the International Pet Photography Awards

Dogs, horses, cats, and a photogenic rat named Buttons.

Archeologists working on gravesite excavation
Archaeology

Mass grave of over 120 Roman soldiers found under soccer field

‘Within the context of Roman acts of war, there are no comparable finds of fighters.’

Galapagos tortoise
Endangered Species

97-year-old Galápagos tortoise becomes first-time mom

‘Mommy’ is the oldest first-time mother of her species.

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Home

If you have allergies, you need this $70 Clorox HEPA air purifier, on sale for just $30

This whisper-quiet air purifier can scrub irritants out of a room up to 200 square feet with a two-stage HEPA filter.

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Engineering

Would you play basketball on a glass floor? This German startup thinks you should.

Hardwood is part of the game's storied history.

An illustration of a potential NASA lunar base for the Artemis missions.
Moons

Scientists want to turn moon dust into solar panels

'Moonglass’ made from the lunar surface might be particularly radiation-resistant.

A tray of psilocybin mushrooms is prepared to be distributed to congregants by Benji “Teopixqui Dez” Dezaval, founder of The Community of PACK Life, before a gathering in the basement of his home, which serves as Colorado’s first psychedelic church, on February 18, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dezaval, who started the church in 2024, hands out up to two grams of a psilocybin mushroom to each church congregant weekly. Colorado voters passed Proposition 122 in 2022, which decriminalized the use of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly referred to as “magic mushrooms.” Dezaval has seen the church grow to over 400 congregants in the past year. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP)
Medicine

The Colorado psychedelic mushroom experiment has arrived

Several studies have shown the long-term benefits of psilocybin.

An artistic rendering of the newly discovered binary star system in the moment where the first white dwarf has just exploded, hurtling material towards its nearby companion which is on the cusp of explosion too. This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars explode
Solar System

Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion

When this nearby binary system explodes, it will be 10 times brighter than the moon.

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Gear

I wear this Carhartt t-shirt every day and I’m stocking up on them during this rare Amazon deal

This 100 percent cotton t-shirt is super comfortable and comes in a ton of colors and sizes up to 5X with tall options thrown in as well.

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Land

YouTuber arrested for approaching uncontacted tribe in India

The 'danger tourist' tried to leave coconuts and a Coke.

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Audio

The best beginner turntables for 2025, tested and reviewed

Get in the groove with the perfect starter setup for new vinyl enthusiasts.

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Health

3D-printed ‘skin’ could make testing cosmetics on animals obsolete

Researchers made a bioengineered hydrogel composite filled with living human cells.

three men work on planting a tree
Agriculture

A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia

Move over, Liberty Bell.

A collage of three images showing the black expanse of space. Two-thirds of the collage is taken up by the black background sprinkled with small, blurry galaxies in orange, blue, and white. There are two images in a column at the right side of the collage. On the right side of the main image, not far from the top, a very faint dot is outlined with a white square. At the right, there are two zoomed in views of this area. The top box is labeled NIRCam and shows a fuzzy dot at the center of the inset. The bottom box is labeled MIRI and shows a fuzzy pinkish dot.
Space Telescope

JWST snaps first image of asteroid that threatened Earth

2024 Y4 almost certainly won't hit us, but there's still a slight chance of a lunar impact.

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Psychology

How to talk for a very, very long time

After Senator Cory Booker's record-breaking speech, a voice actor, speech-language pathologist, and physician weigh in.

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Air Force

How a new wave of fighter jets could transform aerial combat

A new fighter aircraft called the F-47 will be made by Boeing for the US.