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Cameras

The best telescope mounts for 2025

What your telescope sits on can be just as essential as the scope itself.

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Medicine

How prescription drugs get their names

Hint: It's all in the suffix.

PAMPORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 8, 2024: A Kashmiri farmer showing saffron flowers in a field during the saffron harvest season in Pampore. Saffron is a spice derived from the ‘crocus sativus’ flower and is harvested once a year from October 21 to mid-November. The world's most expensive spice-Kashmiri saffron, often referred to as "Red Gold" sells for more than 10,000 US dollars per kilogram.
Environment

How Plants Are Responding to a Warming World — And Why It Matters

Changing phenology, while seemingly innocuous, impacts our lives in many clear and tangible ways.

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Outdoor Gear

Yeti Ranchero backpack review: Clever, comfortable, and tough as nails

A clever zipper design and extemely burly build quality make this robust backpack ready for adventure, both outdoor and everyday.

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AI

AI tries to cheat at chess when it’s losing

A new study suggests reasoning models from DeepSeek and OpenAI are learning to manipulate on their own.

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AI

Google is expanding AI search, whether you like it or not

‘As with any early-stage AI product, we won’t always get it right.'

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Moons

How to see the upcoming ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse

The full moon will take on a red in the wee hours of the morning on March 14.

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Space

Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia

Move over, Yarrabubba. The new recordholder is 3.5 billion years old.

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Moons

New evidence for water lurking under the moon’s poles

Chandrayaan-3’s lunar surface temperature data hints at some unexpected H20.

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Archaeology

Highly expressive ancient puppets found in Salvadorian pyramid

Researchers believe the figurines' bodies and heads were controlled by using a string.

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Speakers

Save hundreds on some of our favorite speakers during KEF March Audio Month

There's a top-of-the-line wireless system available for $500 off, plus active deals on passive speakers.

CALIFORNIA, USA - MAY 9: U.S. President Biden arrives at Moffett Federal Airfield of NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, United States on May 9, 2024.
Aviation

Why does Air Force One take so long to replace? It’s not just bureaucracy.

The president’s high-tech aircraft might just be ‘the most unusual plane ever built’

A man wipes sweat from his face July 10, 2007 in New York City. New York City is experiencing a second day of a heat wave with temperatures in the upper 90`s and uncomfortable humidity levels. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Global Warming

Extreme heat silently accelerates aging on a molecular level

New research explores how heat affects biological aging.

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Home

Get a Jackery solar generator at up to 42% off before spring storms roll in

Whether you want a basic portable power station to take camping or a full-fledged solar generator, Jackery has them on sale right now.

This artist concept depicts NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft entering interstellar space. Interstellar space is dominated by the plasma, or ionized gas, that was ejected by the death of nearby giant stars millions of years ago.
Deep Space

NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes

Both spacecraft are running on two-thirds of their original power.

This artist’s concept shows what the isolated planetary-mass object SIMP 0136 could look like based on recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and previous observations from Hubble, Spitzer, and numerous ground-based telescopes.
Exoplanets

Mysterious cosmic body is a rogue ‘Super-Jupiter’

SIMP 0136 shows just how complex our universe really is.

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.
Dinosaurs

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

The ‘titan of salt’ stomped around 78 million years ago.

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Archaeology

1.5 million years ago, human ancestors used hippo bones to make tools

New data revises the timeline for when our prehistoric relatives started using animal bones.

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Science

Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains.

Some colors you can perceive aren’t part of the classic rainbow.

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Endangered Species

12 riveting wildlife images from Nature inFocus Photography Awards

A tiger in action. Quiet cranes in stillness. And the chaos of a lizard fight.