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China Silent Hunter laser at Dubai IDEX 2017
Military

Drones, lasers, and tanks: China shows off its latest weapons

A peek at the arsenal at an arms fair in Dubai.

Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other
Internet

Wikipedia bots spent years fighting silent, tiny battles with each other

And no one even noticed

laughing owl
Endangered Species

Resurrecting extinct animals might do more harm than good

But it depends on the species and the context

How to fix a leaky faucet
Life Skills

How to fix a leaky faucet

Those drips could be costing you a fortune

Does the weirdly warm weather mean spring is already here?
Climate Change

Does the weirdly warm weather mean spring is already here?

Why it isn't so nice that the weather's so nice

horse in front of chemical company
Pollution

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

It wasn’t pretty.

Smog over Louisville
Environment

What would America be like without the EPA?

Why we created the Environmental Protection Agency—and why we still need it

Fracking fluid is leaking more often than we thought
Fossil Fuels

Fracking fluid is leaking more often than we thought

And that's not great

Drone America Savant Drone From Underneath
Drones

Will drones pull rain from desert clouds?

A test flight of a drone brings an unmanned cloud seeding tool one step closer.

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls
Bees

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls

The study shows that bees can adapt to really weird circumstances

milkshakes
Science

McDonalds’ fancy new straw doesn’t suck

And that's the problem

NASA wants the internet to get hype about these new exoplanets
Exoplanets

NASA wants the internet to get hype about these new exoplanets

You can basically read fanfiction about them

Meet China’s triple-hulled warship of the future
Military

Meet China’s triple-hulled warship of the future

A trimaran vessel with all-electric propulsion, multiple helicopters, and anti-ship missiles.

That giant crack in Antarctica just keeps getting bigger
Climate Change

That giant crack in Antarctica just keeps getting bigger

It's a matter of weeks before a Delaware-sized iceberg hits the high seas

Manatee waving
Ocean

Taking manatees off the endangered species list doesn’t mean we should stop protecting them

Come for the sea cow pictures, stay for the environmental policy

Sondrestrom Glacier
Environment

This one simple trick predicts when an ice age will pause

And it all started with an e-mail

What pregnant women actually need to know about herpes
Health

What pregnant women actually need to know about herpes

A reported link between herpes and autism isn't as scary as it sounds

7 planets in the trappist-1 solar system
Exoplanets

A whopping seven Earth-size planets were just found orbiting a nearby star

Three of them may be habitable

Cat poop parasites don’t actually make you psychotic
Mental Health

Cat poop parasites don’t actually make you psychotic

Correlation and causation get mixed up again

Middle Eastern seed bank re-deposits backups into Svalbard’s doomsday vault
Agriculture

Middle Eastern seed bank re-deposits backups into Svalbard’s doomsday vault

Just two years after tumultuous withdrawal