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How animals use physics

By Tom Siegfried / Knowable Magazine

Celestron telescopes on a plain background on-sale for Prime Day

Grab a great deal on a Celestron telescope during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Ultimate Ears’ new Wonderboom is one of the best portable party speakers on sale for Prime Day

Ultimate Ears’ new Wonderboom is one of the best portable party speakers on sale for Prime Day

These are the best headphones we’re buying during Amazon Prime Day 2024

These are the best headphones we’re buying during Amazon Prime Day 2024

Dragonfly resting on flower

Dragonflies reveal how toxic mercury moves in nature

Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 in action

Solo Stove’s hottest fire pits and accessories are up to $102 off for Prime Day

stick figure camera

This camera turns people into stick figures to preserve privacy

By Mack DeGeurin

EF EcoFlow River 2 portable power stations arranged in a pattern

Get an EcoFlow portable power station with a solar charging panel for just $179 before they sell out on Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

A blue Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder filled with seed is mounted to a green post.

The Bird Buddy is the best bird feeder camera at its best price ever for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Screenshot from music video for Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"

NASA beamed Missy Elliott’s ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ to her favorite planet

several snakes entwined together on a rock

Ssssso many snakes: Watch a ‘mega-den’ of rattlesnakes in real time

By Laura Baisas

The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite on a plain white background.

The Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader, and it’s on sale during Amazon Prime Day

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries

By Bill Gourgey

KitchenAid Artisan Series 5 Quart Tilt Head Stand Mixer in a tiled configuration.

Save more than $100 on KitchenAid’s Artisan Series Stand Mixer during Amazon Prime Day

DeWalt drill driver kits on a plain background

This $129 DeWalt drill and driver kit is the best Prime Day tool deal we’ve seen so far

By Stan Horaczek

An Acer Predator Cestus 315 Gaming Mouse in a pattern on a plain background.

80+ of the best Prime Day sales under $50, according to our editors

A eufy pet camera in a pattern on a plain background.

The 50+ best Prime Day pet sales, chosen by our editors

Peloton bikes in a pattern on a plain background.

The best 30+ Prime Day fitness sales from our editors

SAMSUNG ViewFinity S80A Series 27-Inch 4K UHD Monitor on a plain white background.

The best Prime Day computer monitor deals

HP EliteBook 655 G10 in a tiled configuration.

The best Prime Day laptop deals

Hisense 65U6HF in a tiled configuration.

The best Prime Day TV deals from Hisense, TCL, Sony, and more

What do storm chasers really do?

By Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski / The Conversation

DJI Mini 4K drones on a plain background

This $239 DJI Mini 4K drone will definitely sell out during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 36 flight engineer, is pictured near food packages floating freely in the Unity node of the International Space Station.

Why food tastes more bland in space

blue shield with G on it along with other security icons like a lock, cursor and gear

Google is making dark web reports free for everyone. Here’s how they work.

Silhouette of moon

There really are moon lava tunnels—and humans may live in them one day

Beluga Whale Live Cam brings the ‘canaries of the sea’ to your screen

By Laura Baisas

$kids playing with numbers$

Why schools are teaching math word problems all wrong

By Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report

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How to remove sweat stains from white shirts

By Debbie Wolfe

Researcher Andrea Spolaor holds an ice core recovered in Svalbard, Norway in April 2023.

The race to save glacial ice records before they melt away

By Nicola Jones / Yale Environment 360

two photos of little libraries. one is shaped like a cactus, the other is a simple blue box with glass windows

How to set up a Little Free Library

two people standing and looking at a cuckoo clock on a hotel

This 500-year-old hotel in Germany’s Black Forest is an energy self-sufficient wonder

By Alisha McDarris

co2 collector containers

Why carbon capture needs to evolve

By Natasha Gilbert / Knowable Magazine

Beautiful cat on red background

Why do cats make biscuits?

By RJ Mackenzie

Image of ice falling away from Falcon 9 rocket shortly before explosion

Private Space Flight

SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 success streak met a fiery end

How ants acts for the common good of the colony

Close up of bald eagle

Hunters’ bullets are poisoning bald eagles

How to make a walkie talkie for your dog

How to make a walkie talkie for your dog

By Bill Gourgey

a person's hands typing on a typewriter

The 5 best writing apps that help avoid distractions

Hurricane Ian flood, Florida.

FEMA will now consider climate change when it rebuilds after floods

By Jake Bittle/Grist

A new urine filtration system could help future astronauts explore further without needing to lug around hefty water reserves.

Future astronauts could safely drink their own urine with this Dune-like device

By Mack DeGeurin

Bag filled with smuggled snakes

Chinese Customs caught man with 104 snakes in his pants

The rim and floor of Gale Crater as seen from NASA’s Curiosity Rover.

Mars was icy and wet billions of years ago, new study suggests

Joby retrofitted a prototype electric VTOL with a liquid hydrogen system that traveled 523 miles with net-zero in flight emissions.

A hydrogen-powered air taxi flew 523 miles emitting only water vapor

By Mack DeGeurin

Image of the planet Mars

Elon Musk’s Martian dreams include modded Cybertrucks and bioengineered animals

An illustration of newly discovered crocodile relative named Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the coast of an ancient ocean called Panthalassa.

Say hello to the surprising crocodile relative Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis

By Laura Baisas

a thick mammoth foot preserved in permafrost. it is round and dark brown

Woolly mammoth ‘jerky’ preserves 52,000-year-old fossil chromosomes

By Laura Baisas

Millions Of Red Crabs Make Their Way To Ocean As Part Of Annual Migration On Christmas Island

Millions of crabs scuttle across this island every year

By Lauren Leffer

WIPP site in New Mexico

Finding a forever home for nuclear waste

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

a male lion sits in a tree

Lion brothers take risky swim across crocodile-infested channel

By Laura Baisas

Screenshot of model rocket vertically landing

Teen’s model rocket sticks a SpaceX-inspired vertical landing

several stone circles marking gravesites in a field in norway

Stone circles unearthed in Norway mark ancient children’s graves

By Laura Baisas

Image of Omega Centauri star cluster with black hole and evidence stars highlighted

Astronomers discover Earth’s closest black hole

tourists in greece

Tourists are feeling the heat—and their bodies may not be able to catch up

By Kiley Price / Inside Climate News

a microphone in front of a laptop on a desk

How to transcribe text for free using AI

Located in the foothills of a rock emerging from a green field

Iron Age plant remains tell new agricultural story in east Africa

By Laura Baisas

Starship test launch in 2021

SpaceX’s Starship may mess up the lunar surface

Picture of the field site in Amsterdam with the four research plots.

Self-cooling turf could make sweltering sports more bearable

By Mack DeGeurin

circles of red, blue, and green bacteria

‘Bacterial glitter’ shimmers without pigments

By Laura Baisas

NASA asteroid concept

How often do asteroids come near Earth?

By Briley Lewis

a car head rest surrounded by speakers

The 2025 Infiniti QX80 has a cool new audio feature that isolates your phone calls

By Kristin Shaw

a pot of venus fly trap plants on a table

How to care for a Venus fly trap

By Debbie Wolfe

Boeing airplane

Boeing agrees to plead guilty to felony charge related to 737 Max crashes

By Mack DeGeurin

an illustration of a large shark jumping out of the water and eating a winged dinosaur

When the ocean got hot, the sharks bulked up

By Laura Baisas