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Climax Foods’ vegan brie, blue cheese, and feta.
Science

Vegan cheese that tastes like cheese? These startups may have cracked the code.

By Caroline Saunders / Grist

a gaming controller in front of a flash cart
DIY

Flash carts are the ultimate retro gaming accessory

By Justin Pot

whole family sick
Health

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
Science

Which animals can and can’t fart? 

By Alex Hazlett

hands typing on a computer with microsoft start menu open
DIY

How to customize (or replace) the Windows Start menu

By David Nield

Samsung QLED TVS arranged in a pattern on a plain background
Gear

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

By Stan Horaczek

Blind cavefish
Science

This eyeless cavefish grows extra taste buds on its head

By Andrew Paul

Mug of beer splashing
Science

Space beer may taste better than Earth beer

By Andrew Paul

a bunch of yellow bananas
Environment

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.
Science

The phageome: A hidden kingdom within your gut

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

a group of earthworms in rich, dark soil
Environment

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

By Laura Baisas

a large, domed rock formation
Science

Geologists find solid evidence of ancient ‘snowball Earth’

By Laura Baisas

Polymetallic nodules on the Blake Plateau in the Atlantic Ocean, captured by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in 2019.
Environment

Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.

By Gautama Mehta / Grist

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.
Science

Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep space beyond Jupiter

By Andrew Paul

Woman singing in studio microphone
Science

You can (probably) sing better than you think

By Andrew Paul

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

‘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.
Environment

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.
Science

Zebrafish regenerate their spinal cords in a surprising way

By Laura Baisas

Columbian mammoth tusk fossil in creek
Science

Man finds gigantic mammoth tusk in a Mississippi creek

By Andrew Paul

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

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.
Health

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

By Tom Hawking

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

Geologists crack a major Stonehenge mystery

By Laura Baisas

roach at home
Environment

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.
Animals

Extremely rare tardigrade fossils seen in unprecedented detail

By Andrew Paul

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

Scandinavia’s missing Bronze-Age boatyards

By Richard Kemeny / Hakai Magazine

Closeup of a young woman sticking out her tongue.
AI

AI tongue scanner can diagnose illnesses with 96 percent accuracy

By Andrew Paul

Odyssey’s THEMIS view the horizon of Mars.
Science

Ultrasonic tools could one day track wind speeds on Mars

By Tom Hawking

a spotted cat walks through a mountain region at night
Animals

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.
Environment

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.
Environment

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.
Environment

New species of extinct walrus discovered

By Laura Baisas

Starship test launch in 2021
Science

SpaceX accused of dumping polluted Starship wastewater in Texas for years

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Tom Hawking

Illustration of Enalioetes head
Dinosaurs

This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin

By Andrew Paul

children's hands typing on a laptop
DIY

How to block websites on your home network

By David Nield

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.
Science

The hunt for the first stars in the universe

By Briley Lewis

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

New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars

By John Johnson Jr. / Knowable Magazine

Modern laptop flat lay yellow background.
DIY

7 tips to make the most of using a VPN

By David Nield

Still from The Mind Reader (1933).
Health

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
DIY

Don’t throw away your old sunglasses

By Debbie Wolfe

screenshot of proton docs
DIY

Proton Docs vs Google Docs: Should you switch?

By David Nield

Colorful atlantic puffin sitting on a cliff
Environment

In Iceland, humans throwing baby puffins is a good thing

By Alisha McDarris

Chrysalis attached to tree branch with silk
Animals

Butterflies anchor cocoons with silk Velcro and seat-belts

By Andrew Paul

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

Researchers worry about AI turning humans into jerks

By Mack DeGeurin

Concept art of timber skyscraper in Milwaukee
Engineering

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

By Andrew Paul

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
Deep Space

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

By Laura Baisas

An oil rig flares methane, the main component of natural gas. When operators do not have capacity to transport natural gas, it is often burned off into the atmosphere.
Science

Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant

By Syris Valentine & Naveena Sadasivam / Grist

a close up of a burmese python.
Animals

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge begins

By Laura Baisas

vinyl records in a pile next to a record player
Technology

Why records are better than CDs in the streaming age

By Justin Pot

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

‘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
Environment

Longest rocks ever recovered from Earth’s mantle

By Laura Baisas

Human playing against Google DeepMind ping pong robot
AI

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

By Andrew Paul

Illustration of two astronauts on Mars
Mars

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

By Andrew Paul

a lemur in an enclosure stares into a takeout container
Animals

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

By Laura Baisas

young girl using phone at night in bed
Health

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.
Archaeology

Astronauts conduct the first archeological study in space

By Andrew Paul

A deceased blue tit is being held in a womans hand
Environment

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

By Lauren Leffer

China's Shenlong space plane blurry image taken by telescopic camera.
Aviation

China’s super-secret space plane spotted above Europe

By Andrew Paul

four different types of corn. one is long and yellow, the other is shorter and yellow. the other two are shorter and black
Environment

Love corn? Thank interbreeding

By Laura Baisas

The newly discovered Paragonaster hoeimaruae. There are many types of starfish and this one is particularly adapted to living in sandy, muddy waters, a feature the researchers want to learn more about.
Environment

New, vibrant starfish discovered in Japan

By Laura Baisas

Farmingdale, N.Y.: Gas station and oil company signs clutter Hempstead Turnpike in Farmingdale, New York on July 8, 1968.
Environment

The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s

By Kate Yoder/Grist

two sea lions swim in blue water, with their heads above the water
Animals

Sea lion camera crews help scientists map unexplored seabeds

By Laura Baisas

Video still of Figure 02 humanoid robot looking at hand
AI

Figure says its new humanoid robot can chat and learn from its mistakes

By Andrew Paul

an SUV rolls down an assembly line with people inspecting it
Technology

How Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds

By Kristin Shaw