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America’s obsession with meat, explained

America’s obsession with meat, explained

By Eleanor Cummins

Choose and install the right dash cam for your car

Choose and install the right dash cam for your car

By Whitson Gordon

How to stay safe around moose

How to stay safe around moose

By Alisha McDarris

A busy woman overwhelmed at work, holding her face in her hands in front of a Macbook laptop with some open notebooks around it.

6 apps and tools to help organize your life

Here’s what would happen if you worked out like a strongman

Fitness & Exercise

Here’s what would happen if you worked out like a strongman

By Sara Chodosh

Four ways to make beef more sustainable

Four ways to make beef more sustainable

Stain removal tips from a Buckingham Palace-trained butler

Stain removal tips from a Buckingham Palace-trained butler

By Olga Loginova

A carbon-neutral burger? It’s not impossible.

A carbon-neutral burger? It’s not impossible.

Are we alone in the universe? Probably not.

Are we alone in the universe? Probably not.

How to configure your smart thermostat to save the most money

How to configure your smart thermostat to save the most money

By Whitson Gordon

coiled up snake

The best remedy for a snakebite: carry car keys

By Alisha McDarris

The flight deck of a British Airways 747-400

Explore the gauges, levers, and history of a 747′s iconic cockpit

The best guitar tuners for all levels of musicians.

The best guitar tuners for classical, electric, and acoustic guitars

By Julian Vittorio

The main page of Netflix on a web browser.

Watch anything you want without signing up for every streaming service

I flew in an F-16 with the Air Force and oh boy did it go poorly

I flew in an F-16 with the Air Force and oh boy did it go poorly

Brown-skinned child with black braids at the grocery store holding ripe fruit like pineapple and papaya in arms

Pick the sweetest, ripest fruit with this science-based guide

By Sara Chodosh

A person's hands on a smaller black keyboard in front of a larger black keyboard, perhaps figuring out how to use mouse keys to navigate their computer without a mouse.

How to use mouse keys to navigate your computer with only your keyboard

An old TV on a wooden table in front of a wall covered in orange square-patterned wallpaper.

7 ways to find new music, shows, and movies

A Black person reaching their hands into a zeer pot—a type of DIY refrigerator—full of green beans, tomatoes, and other produce.

The coolest way to keep food cold without electricity

By Ilana E. Strauss

31 ways to organize all your stuff

31 ways to organize all your stuff

By Billy Cadden

What NASA’s twin study actually taught us about living in space

What NASA’s twin study actually taught us about living in space

By Claire Maldarelli

I got my hip replaced at 39. Here’s why that might get more common.

I got my hip replaced at 39. Here’s why that might get more common.

Science helped me run my first marathon in 3 hours and 21 minutes

Fitness & Exercise

Science helped me run my first marathon in 3 hours and 21 minutes

By Claire Maldarelli

Half of Americans have heart disease, but there are easy ways to reduce your risk

Half of Americans have heart disease, but there are easy ways to reduce your risk

By Claire Maldarelli

Eight science apps that turn your phone into a laboratory

A man wearing a black shirt and a white baseball cap looking down while many dead leaves fall and fly around him, probably as he's trying to get the leaves off his lawn.

The best way to get rid of leaves this fall

By Jillian Mock

An airplane taking off toward the camera at dusk, with lights along the runway and on the front of the plane, against a cloudy reddish sunset.

Let’s talk about how planes fly

Pluto is not a planet but a dwarf planet. Outline of its corona on black taken by the NASA New Horizons probe.

Pluto is not a planet because of one small technicality

By Charlie Wood

Shorter winters are stunting the growth of plants

Shorter winters are stunting the growth of plants

By Marlene Cimons

A savvy shopper’s guide to spotting fake Amazon reviews

A savvy shopper’s guide to spotting fake Amazon reviews

By Whitson Gordon

How to set up your home Wi-Fi

How to set up your home Wi-Fi

By Jason Lederman

a palm tree bending in the wind

Hurricane forecasts can be confusing—here’s a helpful glossary

By Dennis Mersereau

glass bottles on a shelf with handwritten labels

So, what’s the deal with homeopathy?

By Justin McElroy and Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Do I have a cold or the flu?

Ask Us Anything

Do I have a cold or the flu?

By Nicole Wetsman

Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web

Here’s China’s massive plan to retool the web

By P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking

Live your best post-Zuckerberg life with these replacements for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook

Live your best post-Zuckerberg life with these replacements for Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook

There’s a zombie attack happening right now. It involves crickets.

There’s a zombie attack happening right now. It involves crickets.

moving in carrying sofa

Lift heavy stuff without wrecking your back

Glaciers are no longer moving at glacial paces

Glaciers are no longer moving at glacial paces

hurricane florence flooding

Why rivers rise long after a hurricane is gone

By Sara Chodosh

iOS 12 just gave your iPhone new features—here’s how to use them

A phone screen with the Kiwi Browser, Ecosia browser, Brave browser, and Firefox browser icons on the screen.

7 alternatives to your phone’s built-in web browser

How to record a phone call

How to record a phone call

decade of hurricanes

Charted: How hurricanes are becoming more extreme

By Sara Chodosh

Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic

How to prepare for a hurricane that’s about to hit

By Sophie Bushwick

How to send secret messages hidden in pictures and songs

How to send secret messages hidden in pictures and songs

Sweltering heat is exactly the right weather to get your flu shot

Sweltering heat is exactly the right weather to get your flu shot

By Sara Chodosh

Charted: Here’s how much your food waste hurts the environment

Charted: Here’s how much your food waste hurts the environment

By Sara Chodosh

Male red-winged blackbird

How to decode the secret language of birds

How to manage your digital read-it-later list—before it’s too late

How to manage your digital read-it-later list—before it’s too late

Why bigger planes mean cramped quarters

Why bigger planes mean cramped quarters

By Ryan Bradley

A young woman doing a lunge stretch by the side of a river under a gray cliff.

Fitness & Exercise

How to stretch for any type of workout

By Sara Chodosh

Fitness & Exercise

Here’s how much protein you really need

By Sara Chodosh

Everything you ever wanted to know about vitamin D

Everything you ever wanted to know about vitamin D

By Julissa Treviño

Stop struggling with ‘inbox zero’ and just delete all your emails

beef meat fresh carnivore

Please do not try to survive on an all-meat diet

By Sara Chodosh

A veterinarian explains what dog and cat years really mean

A veterinarian explains what dog and cat years really mean

By Jesse Grady / The Conversation

Endangered Species

Here are 10 plants and animals that might have gone extinct without the Endangered Species Act

How to send and receive texts from the comfort of your computer

Descended testicles: DNA study drops new hints on secrets of low hanging glands

Descended testicles: DNA study drops new hints on secrets of low hanging glands

By Neil Adams/The Conversation

a girl looks at a touch screen

Climate change forced a famously old-school museum to go digital

By Eleanor Cummins

Beauty vitamins promise shinier hair, stronger nails, and suppler skin, but do they work?

Beauty vitamins promise shinier hair, stronger nails, and suppler skin, but do they work?

By Julissa Treviño

How to find your way out of the woods without tools—or your phone

How to find your way out of the woods without tools—or your phone

Two-by-fours are not actually 2-by-4—here’s why

Two-by-fours are not actually 2-by-4—here’s why

By Eleanor Cummins