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Two photos of Elon Musk on smartphone screens

SpaceX says it can no longer fund Ukraine’s Starlink access

Stranger Things playing on smartphone screen draped with Christmas lights against dark background

Netflix to join Hulu and Disney+ with a cheaper ad-supported streaming tier

The risk of heart inflammation is higher for COVID infections than the vaccine

The risk of heart inflammation is higher for COVID infections than the vaccine

By Laura Baisas

Siemens Gamesa wind turbine against blue sky backdrop

A wind turbine just smashed a global energy record—and it’s recyclable

This dinosaur ended up mummified thanks to an ancient crocodile attack

This dinosaur ended up mummified thanks to an ancient crocodile attack

By Laura Baisas

Woman walking across college campus using exoskeleton robotic mobility boots

These robotic exoskeleton boots will make you feel 30 pounds lighter

What spun this exquisite deep-space ‘spider web’? (Hint: not aliens.)

Space Telescope

What spun this exquisite deep-space ‘spider web’? (Hint: not aliens.)

By Laura Baisas

ART turtle robot on the grass

ART, the turtle robot, gets by swimmingly in water and on land

By Sara Kiley Watson

Our long childhoods could be linked to food-gathering skills

Our long childhoods could be linked to food-gathering skills

By Laura Baisas

At 1,400 pounds, Bear Force One wins this year’s Fat Bear Week showdown

At 1,400 pounds, Bear Force One wins this year’s Fat Bear Week showdown

By Laura Baisas

Colonoscopies still recommended for older adults, despite tepid new research

Colonoscopies still recommended for older adults, despite tepid new research

By Laura Baisas

Oxford/AstraZeneca nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine fails first trial

Oxford/AstraZeneca nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine fails first trial

By Laura Baisas

Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes

Billions of years ago, Mars may have been bustling with climate-changing microbes

By Laura Baisas

Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility

The US’s first utility-scale renewable energy triple threat is online in Oregon

By Sara Kiley Watson

A meteor shower and Hunter’s Moon will light the night the sky this weekend

A meteor shower and Hunter’s Moon will light the night the sky this weekend

By Laura Baisas

La Niña hits Sydney with record-breaking rain

La Niña hits Sydney with record-breaking rain

By Laura Baisas

Coyote walking on street

Culver City is home to a unique cat versus coyote conflict

By Laura Baisas

falling water levels on the rhine near cologne august 2022

Hotter summers are baking the water out of soil at unprecedented rates

By Laura Baisas

2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless in a gold and black illustration

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry just went to 3 scientists who simplified reactions in the lab

By Laura Baisas

Nobel Prize Physics 2022 winners Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger in gold and black illustration

Particle Physics

Quantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments

By Purbita Saha

Water droplets rising from Iceland's Skogafoss waterfall.

Here’s how life on Earth might have formed out of thin air and water

By Laura Baisas

Dinosaur-killing asteroid created a tsunami with 2-mile-high waves

Dinosaur-killing asteroid created a tsunami with 2-mile-high waves

By Laura Baisas

Walgreens Retail Store Exterior at night

Your upcoming Walgreens prescription may be refilled by a machine

Kim Kardashian official instagram account on smartphone screen on paper instagram banner

SEC fines Kim Kardashian $1.27 million for ‘unlawfully touting’ a cryptocurrency

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome

By Laura Baisas

Tesla Optimus robot prototype dancing on stage

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot can shuffle across stage, ‘raise the roof’

Fish got their jaws millions of years earlier than previously thought

Fish got their jaws millions of years earlier than previously thought

By Laura Baisas

We’re one step closer to identifying the first-ever mammals

We’re one step closer to identifying the first-ever mammals

By Laura Baisas

New cars sold in New York state must be zero-emissions by 2035

Electric Vehicles

New cars sold in New York state must be zero-emissions by 2035

By Laura Baisas

Hurricane Ian Category 1 Carolina coast satellite image

Hurricane Ian surges back and heads for the Carolinas

By Purbita Saha

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean

By Laura Baisas

Amazon associate on laptop in breakroom

Amazon to offer instant pay to workers and more loans to sellers

Category 4 Hurricane Ian hits Florida, bringing historic storm surge

Category 4 Hurricane Ian hits Florida, bringing historic storm surge

By Laura Baisas

Amazon’s Ring Nation quietly premieres on cable TV in 35 states

See a spiral galaxy’s haunting ‘skeleton’ in a chilly new space telescope image

Space Telescope

See a spiral galaxy’s haunting ‘skeleton’ in a chilly new space telescope image

By Laura Baisas

Potentially harmful respiratory disease may be on the rise in children, warns CDC

Potentially harmful respiratory disease may be on the rise in children, warns CDC

By Laura Baisas

The asteroid that created Earth’s largest crater may have been way bigger than we thought

The asteroid that created Earth’s largest crater may have been way bigger than we thought

By Laura Baisas

Russian protestors holding signs and demonstrating against war with Ukraine

Meta says it’s shut down a giant Russian misinformation network

A diabetes management kit.

Why we should be looking out for diabetes in young people with COVID

By Laura Baisas

The US government is inching closer to a deal to secure TikTok in the US

Tesla interior with driver hand on black steering wheel

Electric Vehicles

Tesla updates finger-pinching window glitch

Amazon’s new warehouse employee training exec used to manage private prisons

Amazon’s new warehouse employee training exec used to manage private prisons

Close up of library books on shelf

In school districts that ban books, e-readers offer a workaround

Kale is an acquired taste, even in utero

Kale is an acquired taste, even in utero

By Laura Baisas

Iran cracks down on citizens’ internet access following spreading protests

Iran cracks down on citizens’ internet access following spreading protests

PTSD found in 1 in 4 adults in Flint, Michigan, after water crisis

PTSD found in 1 in 4 adults in Flint, Michigan, after water crisis

By Laura Baisas

Neptune’s faint rings glimmer in new James Webb Space Telescope image

Space Telescope

Neptune’s faint rings glimmer in new James Webb Space Telescope image

By Laura Baisas

NASA photo of satellite orbiting above Earth

The FCC is finally pulling the reins on space junk

Anxiety screening is now recommended for all adults under 65

Anxiety screening is now recommended for all adults under 65

By Laura Baisas

Listen: Meteoroids make little ‘bloop’ noises when crashing into Mars

Listen: Meteoroids make little ‘bloop’ noises when crashing into Mars

By Laura Baisas

STD rates started to spike in the US during the pandemic. Now, they continue to rise.

STD rates started to spike in the US during the pandemic. Now, they continue to rise.

By Laura Baisas

Typhoon Nanmadol slams into Japan with record breaking rain

Typhoon Nanmadol slams into Japan with record breaking rain

By Laura Baisas

How many ants are there on Earth? Thousands of billions.

How many ants are there on Earth? Thousands of billions.

By Laura Baisas

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast

By Laura Baisas

Chinese man wearing COVID-19 mask walking down city street in China with national flags behind him

China’s DNA policing program targeted Tibetans and other minorities, reports reveal

Thumbs up Facebook buttons reflected in water droplets in front of blurry thumbs down symbol

Facebook’s automated image removal system is flawed, says Oversight Board

Phase out fossil fuels now to avoid a devastating global health crisis, WHO warns

Phase out fossil fuels now to avoid a devastating global health crisis, WHO warns

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen at sunrise atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Monday, April 4, 2022.

Get ready to watch NASA’s most powerful rocket head for the moon

By Maria Parazo Rose

Close up of man and woman using their smartphones on couch

Expect to see a lot more ads in your native iPhone apps soon

Baby hippo Fritz with mother at Cincinnati Zoo.

Cincinnati Zoo welcomes surprise baby hippo after mother’s birth control ‘fritzes’

By Laura Baisas

Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis.

This giant isopod lives in the crater of a dinosaur-killing asteroid

By Laura Baisas

Photo of customers in line to checkout at a Walmart

Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership

Vials of vaccine with needle

The monkeypox vaccine can now be injected in a more effective way

By Laura Baisas

This glittery Hubble image shows how far we’ve come in studying distant stars

Space Telescope

This glittery Hubble image shows how far we’ve come in studying distant stars

By Laura Baisas