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How to stop hackers from rickrolling your smart speaker
Tech Hacks

How to stop hackers from rickrolling your smart speaker

Resolve to be smarter about network security in 2018.

Alpha Centauri And Beta Centauri
Exoplanets

Five questions about NASA’s plans to visit an alien world in 2069

Like, can we even do that?

Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory is up and running, and it just spotted a nearby asteroid
Space

Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory is up and running, and it just spotted a nearby asteroid

The observatory was battered by Hurricane Maria earlier this year.

Last year in tech: 2017 edition
Technology

Last year in tech: 2017 edition

Fidget spinners, iPhone X, tons of hacks, and all the important tech stuff from this past year.

a kid playing with lab equipment
Science

The weirdest, funniest, wackiest PopSci stories of 2017

From the seven people who are running PopSci today.

snowflakes
DIY

Save a snowflake for decades

All it takes is a drop of chilled superglue.

MRI images of the human brain
Science

Check out the most astounding neuroscience images of the year

The very best in brains.

Food science tricks to make the perfect popcorn
Life Skills

Food science tricks to make the perfect popcorn

Become the colonel of the kitchen.

SpaceX Launch
Space X

Why did last week’s SpaceX launch look so strange?

Nope, not aliens.

This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works
Energy

This is how a molten salt nuclear reactor works

Keepin' it radioactive.

This holiday season, fix your loved one’s computer without having to visit them
Tech Hacks

This holiday season, fix your loved one’s computer without having to visit them

Take control from afar.

Jupiter’s moon could hide life.
Science

The most uplifting science stories of 2017

A few bright points throughout the year.

What to do if your dog eats your Christmas chocolates
Nutrition

What to do if your dog eats your Christmas chocolates

Dogs are most likely to get a toxic dose of chocolate during the holiday season.

Yes, UFOs exist. But they’re probably not what you think.
Aviation

Yes, UFOs exist. But they’re probably not what you think.

New video of a 2004 encounter between the U.S. Air Force and an unidentified flying object has the internet asking about aliens.

Everything you know about toxic shock syndrome is probably wrong
Health

Everything you know about toxic shock syndrome is probably wrong

First off, it’s not just a tampon thing.

Mind your pickaxe: What to do when you encounter fossils and artifacts in the wild
Archaeology

Mind your pickaxe: What to do when you encounter fossils and artifacts in the wild

Don't smash up ancient fossils (and other manners you should mind).

Here are the cold and flu remedies that actually work
Medicine

Here are the cold and flu remedies that actually work

An evidence-based guide to surviving your holiday bug.

The easiest way to keep your home warm this winter
Life Skills

The easiest way to keep your home warm this winter

Throw together some DIY draft stoppers.

NASA’s next mission will either grab part of a comet, or bop around one of Saturn’s moons
Science

NASA’s next mission will either grab part of a comet, or bop around one of Saturn’s moons

Which one will win? We’ll find out in 2019.

Fruits and vegetables could save your life—but not from any one disease.
Diseases

Fruits and vegetables could save your life—but not from any one disease.

Nutrition science can’t be taken piecemeal.