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Sun Home Eclipse 2-person infrared sauna

Sun Home’s Eclipse Red Light & Infrared Saunas blend two popular sauna technologies into a model meant for the home

By Stan Horaczek

Panamanian golden frog on leaves in forest

Endangered Species

Panama’s golden frogs beat extinction

Black and white photo of Iron Age mass grave bones in Serbia

One of Europe’s largest Iron Age mass graves contains mostly women and children

green spruce needless with blue halos on top

Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms

By Laura Baisas

Nike yellow basketball shoes on parquet floor during basketball match of Ukrainian Superleague Parimatch SEASON 2020/21 BC "Kharkiv Sokoly» - MBC "Nikolaev", 31.01.2021, Ukraine, Kharkov, Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv"

Physics discovery explains why sneakers squeak

Paper Craft Anatomy of a Urine-filled Human Bladder That Produces Urination on Blue Background Front View.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Having to pee makes you scientifically better at video games

By Popular Science Team

A detailed, extreme close-up of an emu's head and neck against its own feathered body. The emu has a sharp, dark beak and a striking, large orange eye. Its head is covered in fine, black wiry feathers, while the thick, gray and black plumage of its body creates a textured, blurred background.

Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won

a dolphin swims in venice, italy

Humans pose the biggest risk to Venice’s celebrity dolphin

By Laura Baisas

Coway air purifiers deals amazon

Amazon just dropped the prices on our favorite Coway air purifiers by up to 39%

By Stan Horaczek

a chimpanzee laying on its back in a forest

Chimpanzees love alcohol and their pee proves it

By Laura Baisas

Interior of classic opera house

Color plays an unsung role in how we enjoy concerts

DJI microphones on sale at Amazon

Get a wireless DJI microphone setup for as low as $45 right now during this Amazon flash sale

By Stan Horaczek

Lisbon, Portugal - September 24, 2021: TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330-900neo airplane at Lisbon airport (LIS) in Portugal.

Techno DJ jailed after selling 60,000 fake plane parts to major airlines

Crane placing final part of cross atop Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain

After 144 years, world’s tallest church finally finishes exterior

woman holding floppy disks in from of disks

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks

By Mack DeGeurin

a dog on a phone

How the Ring Search Party feature works (and how to turn it off, if it’s too creepy)

Two satin black KEF Q4 Meta on-wall speakers flanking vinyl album artwork hung over a credenza with a turntable on it.

KEF’s Q Series speakers and KUBE subwoofers offer high-quality audio with limited-time discounts

The Adorant figurine from Geißenklösterle Cave, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dots. The application of these marks suggests a notational system, most notably in the rows of dots on the back of the plate.

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years

Satellite image of southern tip of Florida showing bright blue waters off west coast caused by winter storm weather

NASA spots Florida’s ocean waters changing color

Hands holding a camera that is housed inside a cigarette case

KGB cigarette pack spy camera still works (sort of)