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Google is using AI to help humans and computers communicate through art
AI

Google is using AI to help humans and computers communicate through art

A program for people who can’t draw good

The play-by-play of a total solar eclipse
Space

The play-by-play of a total solar eclipse

Excerpt: Mask of the Sun

As mountains grow, they drive the evolution of new species
Evolution

As mountains grow, they drive the evolution of new species

A long-standing hypothesis gets hard data

This is why you should beat egg whites in a copper bowl
Life Skills

This is why you should beat egg whites in a copper bowl

Yes, it really does help

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo
Fish

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo

The surprising benefits of animal-inspired gunk

The Pentagon just dropped the ‘mother of all bombs,’ its biggest non-nuclear weapon
Air Force

The Pentagon just dropped the ‘mother of all bombs,’ its biggest non-nuclear weapon

It's still orders of magnitude smaller than Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Magic Girl Pinball Machine
Gaming

The curious story of Magic Girl, the would-be greatest pinball machine of all time

At $16,000 it was the world's most expensive pinball machine. It was also the most fraught.

Hotter weather could make predators even more vicious
Global Warming

Hotter weather could make predators even more vicious

Climate change could throw off the balance of ecosystems

Computer scientists are developing a ‘master’ fingerprint that could unlock your phone
Security

Computer scientists are developing a ‘master’ fingerprint that could unlock your phone

But questions remain

Yes, you can improve your memory. Here’s how.
Health

Yes, you can improve your memory. Here’s how.

Think like a memory athlete

glass eel
Animals

How eels might hitch a ride to Europe

They may use massive magnetic maps to navigate

It’s official: Saturn’s moon has just about everything you need to make life
Space

It’s official: Saturn’s moon has just about everything you need to make life

Deep-sea vents could infuse Enceladus' ocean with microbe food

butter
Heart Disease

New York City’s trans fat ban really did keep people out of the hospital

Heart attacks and strokes declined

VIIRS view of Europe
NASA

These new photos of Earth lit up at night are actually pretty useful

My god, it's full of street lamps

Teleocrater rhadinus
Dinosaurs

This ancient dinosaur relative looks surprisingly like a crocodile

Another lizard-esque carnivore to love

How to not get a horrible brain parasite on your trip to Hawaii
Health

How to not get a horrible brain parasite on your trip to Hawaii

It's one souvenir you really don't want to bring home

Our rivers and lakes contain a scary number of pesticides and pharmaceuticals
Pollution

Our rivers and lakes contain a scary number of pesticides and pharmaceuticals

And they only tested for a fraction of the 85,000 known chemicals

Hydrothermal vent
Ocean

There’s a treasure trove on the seafloor—and that could be a bad thing

There are precious minerals to mine, but no regulations in place

Ants perfected farming 30 million years ago in the desert
Animals

Ants perfected farming 30 million years ago in the desert

And you can’t even keep your succulent alive

Why won’t my shoes stay tied? Scientists are trying to figure it out.
Science

Why won’t my shoes stay tied? Scientists are trying to figure it out.

All knots inevitably fail