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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

white tank top with yellow armpit stains on a plain, orange background

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

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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

an illustration of a blue exoplanet with white swirls near a sun-like star

A nearby exoplanet reeks of rotten eggs

By Laura Baisas

Knightscope’s K3 autonomous robot

This egg-shaped security robot is now roaming hospitals

By Mack DeGeurin

a computer on a yellow background

How to use the new Gemini AI tools built into Chromebooks

The greening of planes, trains, and automobiles

By Nicola Jones / Knowable Magazine

person driving car with screen showing thermal vision on dashboard

Three-quarters of pedestrian deaths happen after dark. This technology can help change that.

By Kristin Shaw

A sampling of haplochromine cichlid fish.

One fish, two fish, 3,000 fish …

By Curtis Abraham / Knowable Magazine

Vase with flowers on table near color wall

Science tricks to keep your flower bouquets looking fresh

By Debbie Wolfe

Large hailstones

How does hail grow to the size of golf balls and even grapefruit?

By Brian Tang / The Conversation

a robot using a computer

How to spot an AI-generated video

Barred owls have expanded their range across North America, from east to west.

These owls spread from east to west. Not everyone is pleased.

By Jude Isabella/Hakai Magazine

What’s going on with spotted lanternflies?

By Lauren Leffer

Octopus in water

The ‘smart’ animal club keeps getting bigger

By Mack DeGeurin

Pain doesn’t belong on a scale of zero to 10

Pain doesn’t belong on a scale of zero to 10

By Elisabeth Rosenthal/KFF Health News

Japan’s government is (finally) done with floppy disks

a nearly complete skeleton of a salamander-like creature that lived 300 million years ago. it's head is round and shaped like a toilet seat

This giant tetrapod sucked in prey with its ‘toilet seat-shaped’ head

By Laura Baisas

cone shaped skull

These viking ladies tried to start a trend for pointy heads, but it didn’t take off

By Popular Science Team

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole brain cortex: all the EEG traces show chaotic brain waves. Epilepsy can take many forms, and have different effects. This could illustrate both benign epilepsy (inherited childhood form that normally improves with age), and myoclonic epilepsy (form that causes muscle contractions). An EEG measures electrical activity in the brain using electrodes attached to the scalp.

100 years of EEG: How this technology transformed neuroscience

By Erika Nyhus / The Conversation

a striped cat scratching a grey armchair

Why some cats scratch more than others

By Laura Baisas

Close up of human brain neuron

Lab-grown human brain tissue used to control robot

a small grey and black reef fish swims

Fish in Earth’s hottest water defy the odds

By Laura Baisas

two ants face each other in a lab. one has purple dye where a wound was treated.

Watch a carpenter ant chew off another’s wounded leg to try to save its life

By Laura Baisas

Close up of Syntrichia caninervis moss

This inedible, indestructible moss may help humans thrive on Mars

SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk

SpaceX will attempt the first commercial spacewalk

By Briley Lewis

beaver at a dam

How beavers are helping the Tule River Tribe of California fight wildfires

By Taylar Dawn Stagner / Grist