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For more than a century, cars have meant freedom, escape and self-reinvention to Americans. Now Tesla’s forthcoming Cybercab ...
Trade impulse clothing purchases for botanical dyes, upcycled apparel, creative mending, flexible sizing, and more ...
To boost mood and manliness, men are spending lots of money on the hormone testosterone—yet they may see trouble instead of ...
American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s ...
NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s ...
Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...
A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...
We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon.
The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
From sniffing out rare species to tracking down poachers, dogs aid conservation efforts in a surprising variety of ways. And a growing list of successes shows how our best friends’ legendary ...
Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...
Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...