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

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

By Laura Baisas

Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility
Environment

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
Science

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
Environment

La Niña hits Sydney with record-breaking rain

By Laura Baisas

Coyote walking on street
Environment

Culver City is home to a unique cat versus coyote conflict

By Laura Baisas

Man hand holding iPhone 12 Pro Max Gold with social networking service Twitter on the screen.
Technology

Twitter’s fact-checking service Birdwatch is headed for your feed

By Sara Kiley Watson

falling water levels on the rhine near cologne august 2022
Environment

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
Science

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

By Laura Baisas

US Vice President Kamala Harris holds up a map of state abortion bans post-Roe v. Wade
Health

The Biden administration plans to expand abortion access in all states

By Laura Baisas

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter (again)
Technology

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter (again)

By Andrew Paul

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

Quantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments

By Purbita Saha

Water droplets rising from Iceland's Skogafoss waterfall.
Science

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
Science

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

By Laura Baisas

Walgreens Retail Store Exterior at night
Technology

Your upcoming Walgreens prescription may be refilled by a machine

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Andrew Paul

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome
Health

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced Neanderthal genome

By Laura Baisas

Tesla Optimus robot prototype dancing on stage
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

Fish got their jaws millions of years earlier than previously thought
Science

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
Environment

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
Technology

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

By Laura Baisas

Hurricane Ian Category 1 Carolina coast satellite image
Environment

Hurricane Ian surges back and heads for the Carolinas

By Purbita Saha

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean
Environment

Melting sea ice is acidifying the Arctic Ocean

By Laura Baisas

Amazon associate on laptop in breakroom
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

Man holding iphone 6 showing Vkontakte app
Technology

Apple removes VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network, from the App Store

By Andrew Paul

Category 4 Hurricane Ian hits Florida, bringing historic storm surge
Environment

Category 4 Hurricane Ian hits Florida, bringing historic storm surge

By Laura Baisas

Backlit screen of smartphone home page displaying apps
Technology

App privacy depends a lot on where you were when you downloaded it

By Andrew Paul

Ring Nation television show promotional logo
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

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

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
Health

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
Science

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
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

A diabetes management kit.
Health

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

By Laura Baisas

Two smartphones in front of a small plant with TikTok logo on one screen and TikTok homepage on the other
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

Tesla interior with driver hand on black steering wheel
Technology

Tesla updates finger-pinching window glitch

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Andrew Paul

Close up of library books on shelf
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

Kale is an acquired taste, even in utero
Health

Kale is an acquired taste, even in utero

By Laura Baisas

Iran cracks down on citizens’ internet access following spreading protests
Technology

Iran cracks down on citizens’ internet access following spreading protests

By Andrew Paul

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

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
Science

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

By Laura Baisas

NASA photo of satellite orbiting above Earth
Technology

The FCC is finally pulling the reins on space junk

By Andrew Paul

Anxiety screening is now recommended for all adults under 65
Health

Anxiety screening is now recommended for all adults under 65

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Laura Baisas

For woodpeckers, dropping beats could be the same as singing
Environment

For woodpeckers, dropping beats could be the same as singing

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Laura Baisas

Spotify logo on TV in darkened room
Technology

The latest movie pirating tool: Spotify’s ‘video podcast’

By Andrew Paul

Typhoon Nanmadol slams into Japan with record breaking rain
Environment

Typhoon Nanmadol slams into Japan with record breaking rain

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Laura Baisas

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast
Environment

Typhoon Merbok breaks records as it lashes the Alaskan coast

By Laura Baisas

Person from behind wearing headphones.
Technology

Hacker may have just leaked early ‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ footage

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Andrew Paul

Hand typing on keyboard in dark room
Technology

Hacker gains ‘full access’ to Uber’s networks using one of oldest tricks in the book

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Laura Baisas

Photo of wildfires covering mountains with residential area below it
Environment

New federal mapping tool brings climate resiliency to everyday Americans

By Andrew Paul

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.
Science

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
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

Baby hippo Fritz with mother at Cincinnati Zoo.
Environment

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

By Laura Baisas

Image of Bathynomus yucatanensis.
Environment

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
Technology

Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership

By Andrew Paul

Vials of vaccine with needle
Health

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

By Laura Baisas

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 News
Gear

Samsung announces new Galaxy Z folding phones, Galaxy Watch5 Pro, and more

By Brandon Russell

President Biden just signed a law to churn out more US semiconductors
Technology

President Biden just signed a law to churn out more US semiconductors

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Laura Baisas