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Quadcopter drone in flight
Technology

Report: 96 percent of pilot-reported drone sightings are totally benign

Close encounters of the drone kind are rarer than they seem

Smile for the Hubble
Physics

Space Shots: The Universe’s Best Images

A gallery of photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space.

Historic floods are ravaging Canada
Climate Change

Historic floods are ravaging Canada

Climate change is likely a factor

What a Jell-O brain tells us about the future of human-machine interaction
Technology

What a Jell-O brain tells us about the future of human-machine interaction

Expanding the ways people connect with the digital landscape

Humans have a better sense of smell than you think
Science

Humans have a better sense of smell than you think

The nose knows

colorful bird feathers
Evolution

How we finally figured out the color of dinosaur feathers

Excerpt: The Evolution of Beauty

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back
Pollution

Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back

New devices let citizen scientists detect local pollutants.

Prototype exoskeleton helps the elderly keep their balance
Health

Prototype exoskeleton helps the elderly keep their balance

Why have a walker when you could have an exosuit?

This watery, Neptune-sized exoplanet could help us learn how new worlds evolve
Science

This watery, Neptune-sized exoplanet could help us learn how new worlds evolve

It's surprisingly lacking in heavy elements

Horizontal stripes make you look thinner, not wider
Science

Horizontal stripes make you look thinner, not wider

A brain scientist's guide to fashion.

Cage-free chickens keep winding up with broken bones, and scientists are looking for a solution
Agriculture

Cage-free chickens keep winding up with broken bones, and scientists are looking for a solution

Million dollar birdie

We just got an up-close look at the largest lava lake in the solar system
Space

We just got an up-close look at the largest lava lake in the solar system

On Io, the floor is basically lava

Desert critters avoid noisy wind farm turbines
Renewables

Desert critters avoid noisy wind farm turbines

Scientists seek to reduce wind energy's impact upon predators

deodorant
Ask Us Anything

What actually causes body odor?

It’s never as smelly as you think it is

Travel apps
Tech Hacks

The best travel apps to install on your phone

Don't hit the road without them

zuul portrait
Dinosaurs

This new species of dinosaur looks like Zuul from Ghostbusters

I am become Zuul, Destroyer of Shins

Hanford site
Energy

A tunnel collapsed at the Hanford nuclear waste site on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know.

It sounds scary, but we're probably fine

This giant feathered dinosaur had nests the size of monster truck tires
Dinosaurs

This giant feathered dinosaur had nests the size of monster truck tires

We now know who ‘Baby Louie’ really was

Lizards might lose their gut bacteria to climate change—and that’s not great
Climate Change

Lizards might lose their gut bacteria to climate change—and that’s not great

A lizard’s health is in its gut

Facebook created a faster, more accurate translation system using artificial intelligence
AI

Facebook created a faster, more accurate translation system using artificial intelligence

Tapping a neural network to translate text in chunks