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cellular shades

Ditch your old blinds for cellular shades

By Lauren Leffer

salton sea in california

Why are people near the Salton Sea getting lung disease?

By Fletcher Reveley / Undark

A freshly-collected batch of venomous cone snails.

Precise, lethal sea snail toxin could one day lead to better medicines

By Laura Baisas

Two images displaying possible kilonova

Scientists want your help finding black holes with your phone

a python with a wide open mouth swallows a white rat whole

How pythons can eat such giant meals

By Laura Baisas

Anatomically accurate sculpture of a dodo

The dodo was faster and smarter than you think

a spider traps a glowing firefly in its web

Spiders may be hacking firefly signals to trap dinner

By Laura Baisas

West Nile Virus cases are on the rise again: How to protect yourself

By Lauren Leffer

Why EMDR trauma therapy is gaining popularity

By Laurel Niep / The Conversation

an SUV with a pop tent on top and a ladder in front of a mountain lake

Going off-roading in a DIY’ed Porsche Taycan (yes, a Porsche)

By Kristin Shaw

a gaming controller in front of a flash cart

Flash carts are the ultimate retro gaming accessory

whole family sick

Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school−here’s what you can do about it

By Libby Richards/The Conversation

baby sloth poses for the camera on the tree

Ask Us Anything

Which animals can and can’t fart?

By Alex Hazlett

hands typing on a computer with microsoft start menu open

How to customize (or replace) the Windows Start menu

Samsung QLED TVS arranged in a pattern on a plain background

This 85-inch Samsung TV is more than $1,000 off for a limited time

By Stan Horaczek

This eyeless cavefish grows extra taste buds on its head

Mug of beer splashing

Space beer may taste better than Earth beer

a bunch of yellow bananas

Bananas are at risk of extinction, but scientists have a plan

By Laura Baisas

Viruses called bacteriophages infect intestinal bacteria by injecting their genetic material and later, new phages burst out of the bacterium. But these phages and bacteria can also live in harmony.

The phageome: A hidden kingdom within your gut

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

a group of earthworms in rich, dark soil

Hear the ‘rave’-like sounds of a healthy soil

By Laura Baisas

a large, domed rock formation

Geologists find solid evidence of ancient ‘snowball Earth’

By Laura Baisas

Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago. The illustration shows an asteroid impacting at Chicxulub. Shown in the background are planet Mars and asteroid bodies.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep space beyond Jupiter

Woman singing in studio microphone

You can (probably) sing better than you think

Astronomy: the corona of the sun, viewed during a total solar eclipse. Process print after a photograph, 1871.

‘The sun has been eaten’: A brief history of solar eclipses

By Briley Lewis

Port Jackson sharks sleeping on the seafloor at Beagle Marine Park.

Watch a huge ‘No Boys Allowed’ shark slumber party

By Laura Baisas

A transparent zebrafish in a tank in a laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on June 20, 2023.

Zebrafish regenerate their spinal cords in a surprising way

By Laura Baisas

Columbian mammoth tusk fossil in creek

Man finds gigantic mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek

An old ink drawing of Sweden’s Forsa Ring with the runic inscription.

Even Vikings had to pay fines

By Laura Baisas

The device, which is about the size of a stick of gum, can be implanted under the skin, where it monitors heart rate, breathing rate, and other vital signs. When it determines that an overdose has occurred, it rapidly pumps out a dose of naloxone.

First-of-its-kind implant detects and treats opioid overdoses

stonehenge. these large neolithic standing stones are arranged in a circle

Geologists crack a major Stonehenge mystery

By Laura Baisas

Roach sprays don’t work

By Lauren Leffer

Specimen photographed with autofluorescence under confocal microscope at 639 nm; different colors indicate z-depth, with violet to red gradient representing the shallowest to deepest planes, respectively.

Extremely rare tardigrade fossils seen in unprecedented detail

In Scandinavia, early people adorned rocks with thousands of images of boats.

Scandinavia’s missing Bronze-Age boatyards

By Richard Kemeny / Hakai Magazine

Closeup of a young woman sticking out her tongue.

AI tongue scanner can diagnose illnesses with 96 percent accuracy

Odyssey’s THEMIS view the horizon of Mars.

Ultrasonic tools could one day track wind speeds on Mars

a spotted cat walks through a mountain region at night

Rare, endangered ocelot caught on camera

By Laura Baisas

The Darvaza Gas Crater is actually man-made: in the 1970s, Soviet engineers were doing gas explorations in the area, and made a whole mass of land sink in to reveal Darvaza. They subsequently set the sinkhole on fire - it has been burning to this day and remains a major tourist attraction.

Earth is covered in ‘Gates of Hell’

By Lauren Leffer

Using rodenticides is projected to increase and may be contributing to declines in many carnivore species around the world.

Rat poison is moving up through food chains, threatening carnivores around the world

By Meghan P. Keating / The Conversation

Ontocetus posti has post-canine teeth, a larger lower canine, and a fused and short mandibular symphysis.

New species of extinct walrus discovered

By Laura Baisas

Starship test launch in 2021

SpaceX accused of dumping polluted Starship wastewater in Texas for years

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquired this image of the area in front of the lander using its lander-mounted, Instrument Context Camera (ICC).

NASA data suggests there’s liquid water deep beneath Mars’ surface

Illustration of Enalioetes head

This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin

children's hands typing on a laptop

How to block websites on your home network

Ancient star, but not one of the first: One of the oldest known stars ever observed is a subgiant star in the Milky Way, just 190 light-years from Earth. The star, known as HD 140283 or the Methuselah star, appears to be almost as old as the universe. However, we know it is not one of the first stars because of it contains metals that must have formed in the core or during the explosion of even earlier stars.

Space Telescope

The hunt for the first stars in the universe

By Briley Lewis

'The field is evolving in a lot of ways.'

New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars

By John Johnson Jr. / Knowable Magazine

Modern laptop flat lay yellow background.

7 tips to make the most of using a VPN

Still from The Mind Reader (1933).

How ‘psychics’ use psychology to create the illusion of telepathy

By Chris French / MIT Press Reader

Closeup of broken eyeglasses with damaged colored lens surrounded by different lenses on table in optical shop. Replacement of glasses lens. Glasses service and repair concept

Don’t throw away your old sunglasses

By Debbie Wolfe

screenshot of proton docs

Proton Docs vs Google Docs: Should you switch?

Colorful atlantic puffin sitting on a cliff

In Iceland, humans throwing baby puffins is a good thing

By Alisha McDarris

Chrysalis attached to tree branch with silk

Butterflies anchor cocoons with silk Velcro and seat-belts

Applying the logic of chatbot conversations to humans could make a person awkward, impatient, or just plain rude.

Researchers worry about AI turning humans into jerks

By Mack DeGeurin

Concept art of timber skyscraper in Milwaukee

Milwaukee wants to build the world’s tallest timber skyscraper (again)

The central region of a spiral galaxy. Its core is a small bright point radiating bright, bluish-white light over the scene. The white light is diffuse and many point-like stars in the galaxy (and even background galaxies) can be seen through it. The galaxy’s arms can be seen as broad, swirling streaks of glowing gas and dust, coloured red and orange. Two additional arms are revealed in green

You’ve never seen a prettier radiation-spewing supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a burmese python.

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins

By Laura Baisas

vinyl records in a pile next to a record player

Why records are better than CDs in the streaming age

SpaceX is seeking approval to expand its Starlink constellation to 40,000 satellites.

‘What goes up, must come down:’ Junk satellites are a looming hazard

By Mack DeGeurin

a long grey sediment core taken from the earth's mantle

Longest rocks ever recovered from Earth’s mantle

By Laura Baisas

Human playing against Google DeepMind ping pong robot

Watch Google’s ping pong robot beat humans at their own game

Illustration of two astronauts on Mars

Scientists think atmospheric ‘glitter’ can warm Mars over 50 degrees

a lemur in an enclosure stares into a takeout container

Lemurs use smell, social cues, and superior memories to find treats

By Laura Baisas

young girl using phone at night in bed

Social media bans could deny teenagers mental health help

By Daniel Chang / KFF Health News

A sample location from the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), Square 03 in the starboard Maintenance Work Area of the International Space Station. An open crew berth is visible at right. The yellow dotted line indicates the boundaries of the sample area.

Astronauts conduct the first archeological study in space

A deceased blue tit is being held in a womans hand

More than a billion birds could be dying from flying into buildings each year in US

By Lauren Leffer