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Closeup image of a hand writing down on a white blank notebook on wooden table

Why writing by hand is better for remembering things

Boston Dynamics Spot robot in puppet dog costume sitting next to regular Spot robot.

Boston Dynamics gives Spot bot a furry makeover

Woman wearing Razer Zephyr Mask

Surprise! That futuristic COVID mask was even sketchier than we thought

Moon photograph from Artemis 1

China compiled the most detailed moon atlas ever mapped

Woman's hands typing on laptop

Romance scams just ‘happen in life,’ says CEO of biggest dating app company in the US

stack of blu ray discs on a reflective table

Why you shouldn’t throw out those DVDs and Blu-Rays

Used coffee grounds on the paper filter

10 clever ways to reuse coffee grounds

By Debbie Wolfe

Factory of the Future 1.0 3D printer with man standing in front of it

Makers of the world’s largest 3D printer just beat their own record

Little boy biting his nails on grey background

A new button battery dyes kids’ mouths blue if swallowed

Image of sun highlighting four solar events

Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA

Statue of Plato in Greece

A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite

ACS3 solar sail concept art above Earth

NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube

NASA wants to measure moonquakes with laser-powered fiber optic cables

PaintCam Eve shooting paintballs at home

Startup pitches a paintball-armed, AI-powered home security camera

CT scan of California condor egg

CT scans look inside a California condor egg

Astronaut Andreas Mogensen aboard the ISS

International Space Station

Let this astronaut show you around the International Space Station

SpaceHopper robot in midair during parabolic flight test

Watch a tripod robot test its asteroid leaping skills

Cargo Ship in Panama Canal

A new solution proposed for drought-stricken Panama Canal goes around it

Toyota concept art for lunar RV

Japan and NASA plan a historic lunar RV roadtrip together

Two robots playing soccer

Watch two tiny, AI-powered robots play soccer

People looking up at eclipse wearing protective glasses

Internet use dipped in the eclipse’s path of totality

Smuggled gold disguised as machine parts

Smugglers melted and spray painted $10 million in gold to look like machine parts

Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically identify the parameters of an unknown material on its own. The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize.

3D printers just got a big, eco-friendly upgrade (in the lab)

Close up of shark head

Shark skin and owl feathers could inspire quieter underwater sonar

MUSE stellarator fusion reactor

Stellarator fusion reactor gets new life thanks to a creative magnet workaround

Zodiac Killer Z340 coded message

How cryptographers finally cracked one of the Zodiac Killer’s hardest codes

NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle concept art

It’s on! Three finalists will design a lunar rover for Artemis

Slide Whistle robot quartet

Watch this robotic slide whistle quartet belt out Smash Mouth’s ‘All Star’

Shoe made from bacterial cellulose

Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria?

Buzz Aldrin on the moon next to American flag.

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

LSST Camera Deputy Project Manager Travis Lange shines a flashlight into the LSST Camera.

Space Telescope

A 3,200-megapixel digital camera is ready for its cosmic photoshoot

Arctic ice flow

Melting ice makes Arctic a target for a new deep sea internet cable

Close up of wolf spider resting on web

Spider conversations decoded with the help of machine learning and contact microphones

Users wearing BCI cap to play video game

This cap is a big step towards universal, noninvasive brain-computer interfaces

Close-up of Gmail homepage on a monitor screen.

Gmail debuted on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago. The joke is still on us.

Dr Ian Phillips with the wavelength management device

Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband

Yuhang Hu working on Emo robot head

A robot named ‘Emo’ can out-smile you by 840 milliseconds

person taking photos of themselves in the dark

Please think twice before letting AI scan your penis for STIs

Image taken of JAXA SLIM lunar lander on moon upside down

Japan’s SLIM moon lander survives a second brutal lunar night

Microscopic image of virus cell impaled on silicon wafer needles

New material neutralizes 96-percent of virus cells using nanospikes

Hand flipping through vinyl records at store

Vinyl records outsold CDs for the second year running

2017 Total Solar Eclipse timelapse

How to photograph the eclipse, according to NASA

Bladder sensor next to smartphone displaying its app

This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 test plane taking off

Boom Supersonic’s prototype jet sets off on first flight

Aerial view of Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown

Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster

Brewintosh Plus next to original Mac Plus

A designer 3D printed a working clone of the iconic Mac Plus

Science Fiction

Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died

Neuralink shows first human patient using brain implant to play online chess

Timelapse of total solar eclipse showcasing Baily's beads

NASA needs your smartphone during April’s solar eclipse

High traffic road with signs and light trails on sunset

EPA says over half of all new cars must be EVs or hybrids by 2032

Female hand with mobile phone on blurred night lights background

‘Cyberflasher’ sent to prison for the first time in England

Woman talking with nurse chatbot on iPad

Silicon Valley wants to deploy AI nursebots to handle your care

Engineers constructing structure using their origami module materias

Flexible, resilient origami-inspired bridges could help navigate disaster zones

SpaceVIP SpaceBalloon above Earth concept art

Private Space Flight

For nearly $500,000, you too can have dinner in the ‘SpaceBalloon’ above Earth

three stories of round library shelves

Every subscription you can cancel by going to the library

Starship rocket launching during third test

Crypto scammers flooded YouTube with sham SpaceX Starship livestreams

Pyxis Ocean shipping vessel with two WindWing sails

A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

Group of Marco Polo Sheep on a snowy mountainside.

Montana traffickers illegally cloned Frankensheep hybrids for sport hunting

Traffic light flashing yellow signal

Electric Vehicles

Researchers propose fourth traffic signal light for hypothetical self-driving car future

CorPower C4 buoy turbine in ocean

Huge 60-foot-tall buoy uses ocean waves to create clean energy

CCTV security camera operating in home.

Airbnb finally bans all indoor security cameras

Concept art of cyborg jellyfish with forebody attachments

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

Composite of four of the best folding ebikes sliced and diced

The best folding electric bikes for 2026, tested and reviewed

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Google Earth Image of seismic center and truck road

‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truck