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Where to find Meta AI in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram—and what you can do with it

a puffin, whale tail at sunset, and a sea turtle

Ocean

Researchers make brandy in replica of disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old tomb distillery

a brown dog ups up onto a tree and sniffs it, while its human handler points to what it is sniffing

Land

Sniffing dogs join the fight against invasive spotted lanternflies

AI

Creepy robot toddler can mimic human expressions

Endangered Species

Endangered baby monkey found clinging to driver of speeding Rolls Royce

Physics

Scientists identify the perfect hula hoop ‘body type’

New ‘Hades’ moray eel discovered by accident

Everything you can do with Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant on Windows

Vehicles

Inside the company ripping apart classic Porsche 911s to restore them with impeccable detail

meteors fall in the night sky near a lighthouse

Space

January stargazing: Ring in 2025 with a meteor shower, ‘planet parade,’ and best chance to spot Mars

Aviation

5 aerospace breakthroughs of 2024

(Original Caption) 1938-Close-up of the very front end of a 1938 Cadillac La Salle. This smaller counterpart to the Cadillac features a smaller radiator grille, and four headlights, as well as the hood ornament and bumper.

Ask Us Anything

Why don’t cars have hood ornaments anymore?

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

headset, smartphone, camera, chip, drone

The 5 greatest gadget innovations of 2024

By Stan Horaczek

Space

10 chaotic space-related mishaps of 2024

15 marvelous Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 images

5 personal care innovations that lived up to the hype in 2024

By Rachel Feltman

Flat lay of woman hands printing in laptop standing on yellow background

How to use Google Docs templates to boost your productivity

A Waymo robotaxi Jaguar I-PACEs driverless car makes a stop in downtown Los Angeles Monday, March 11, 2024.

Self Driving

2024 was the year robotaxis proved they are here to stay

Environment

Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod

By Frida Garza / Grist

Aged Apple computer and hand insert floppy inside

The 11 weirdest things humans did to robots in 2024

5 impressive entertainment technology innovations of 2024

By Stan Horaczek

a dumpster filled with social media logos

Life Skills

How to quit social media for good

By Justin Pot

Voyager Golden Record cover on black background

Ask Us Anything

What is on the Voyager Golden Record? Shockingly, not The Beatles.

5 coolest engineering innovations of 2024

By Andrew Rosenblum

This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2024 shows the northern lights over Fujin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Northern lights were observed at different places across Heilongjiang.

Space

The 7 coolest space phenomena we saw from Earth in 2024

10 fascinating archeological discoveries of 2024

How to send web articles to your Kindle to read later

a baby pygmy hippo stands on straw at a zoo

Animals

11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories from 2024

Science

22 Popular Science stories you loved in 2024

How to set up and use Apple Intelligence on your iPhone

Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

Electric Vehicles

2025 Audi Q6 e-Tron harnesses EV architecture from Porsche

Ask Us Anything

Why do we still have to use airplane mode?

Robots

In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future

By Bill Gourgey

NASA

On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored and being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessel (unseen) in the sea of Kattegat, near the City og Granaa in Jutland, Denmark, on November 20, 2024. Denmark's navy said on November 20, 2024 it was shadowing a Chinese cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea, a day after Finland and Sweden opened investigations into suspected sabotage of two severed undersea telecoms cables.

Internet

The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea internet cables is getting murkier

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’

Robots

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

Vehicles

Nissan’s revitalized Armada has cameras so comprehensive, you can (almost) drive blindfolded

The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way.

Space Telescope

Swirling galaxy arms, a cosmic sombrero, and a dead supernova: Our favorite JWST images from 2024

Deep Space

Hibernation scientists studying squirrels could get humans to deep space

By Lauren Leffer

DIY

Is there any reason to use a screensaver anymore?

By Justin Pot

Chaunacops fish with 2024 Look Back article headline

Ghost ships to ghost sharks: 10 wildest underwater discoveries of 2024

a svalbard reindeer with antlers standing on muddy terrain

Shorter, fatter, and hairier: 5 fun facts about the world’s smallest reindeer

a glacier hiker climbs in the foreground with a headlamp as a rainbow colored aurora dances above

Space

11 sensational images from the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year awards

Home

6 easy ways to make your home more sustainable

By Eric Alt

Stonehenge in Wiltshire of the Great Britain. It is a prehistoric monument, in Wiltshire in South West England. It is under protection of UNESCO.

Archeologists think they solved a 4,500-year-old Stonehenge mystery

PC top view. Hands of user. Modern desktop computer with keyboard and mouse. Personal computer screen top view. Wireless input devices. Vector illustration in flat style

How to add Google Drive to your computer (and why you should)

Close up of phone screen showing Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp icons

Internet

Dept. of Homeland Security urges Americans to use encrypted apps for texting

a strange fish with a blob on its head sits on a rock

Land

27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest

Weather

Man discovers giant mastodon jaw in his backyard

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust.

Solar System

An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years

Technology

Google Street View helps catch suspect of a grisly crime

AI

Charter school is replacing teachers with AI

$The first image depicts star cluster NGC 602 in vibrant and festive colors. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.$

Mars

Happy holidays from space!