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The website is going to look a little light today. We'd like to explain why.

How to back up and protect your data from old smartphones, tablets, and computers

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Everything you need to do before selling or recycling your devices

Getting rid of an old laptop or smartphone isn't as easy as listing it on eBay—you need to make sure your personal data is safely backed up and deleted first.

WikiLeaks's CIA hacking trove doesn't live up to the hype

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A Hacker Infiltrating A Computer

For most people, secure message apps are just as secure as we thought

A new WikiLeaks document dump reveals some CIA tools.

Scientists are experimenting with an entire town's sleep

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Meet the first Chrono City

A team of chronobiologists in Germany is experimenting with optimizing the sleep patterns of one community.

How healthy are low-gluten diets anyway?

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Sliced bread

Eating less gluten is associated with a higher risk of diabetes, but it's more complicated than that

In the pantheon of fad diets, there is perhaps none more hated on than gluten free. But is gluten actually bad for people who don’t have a problem with it?

Hack Netflix with these add-ons and tricks

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There's plenty hidden beneath the surface of Netflix.

Supercharge your streaming

Discover how you can get more out of Netflix with this collection of expert tips, hidden tricks, and third-party add-ons for the popular streaming service.

13 things inside the perfect work bag

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What To Bring To Work

For a happier commute.

Make your journey to work less miserable with these 13 things. Read on.

Six irrefutable pieces of evidence that prove climate change is real

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Here's everything you need to know

Need proof that climate change is real, and caused by human emissions? Read on.

How we know that climate change is happening—and that humans are causing it

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It's a matter of how, not if

How can we know if the climate is really changing? And does it really present the kinds of threats that have now become a familiar, but jarring, refrain? Read on.

What are the "natural flavors" in your food? Biotech is making the answer more complicated.

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Scientists are turning to microbes to manufacture scents and flavors

Many companies are using microbes and molecules made by living organisms to forge natural scents and flavors.

Everything you need to know about the deadly listeria outbreak

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Listeria

Food safety is no joke

Several deaths linked to listeria have prompted the Centers for Disease Control to issue a warning and recall the affected products. Here's what you need to know.

Breakthroughs, stardom, and collapse: the life cycle of a sea arch

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Azure Window

Weathering the waves

At some point, the constant battering was just too much for the old rocks to handle. Read on.

Five rad and random things I found this week

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The end-of-week dispatch from Pop Sci's commerce editor. Vol. 2.

Five rad and random things I found this week vol. 2. Read on.

How to clean your keyboard without breaking it

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For sticky keys, dirty buildup, and all other forms of messiness

A step-by-step guide on how to clean your computer keyboard without breaking it.

NASA's new ozone layer watchdog takes orbit

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The ozone layer is no longer thinning, but we need to keep an eye on it

If you should ever wonder how Earth’s ole ozone layer is holding up, rest assured, because NASA is watching it, hyper-vigilantly.

Updated: Every game available for Nintendo Switch

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Nintendo Switch Games

The definitive list, continually updated.

Every game available for Nintendo Switch. Read on for the complete list.

Google just made the internet a tiny bit less annoying

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Google Invisible reCAPTCHA

See ya, CAPTCHA!

On Wednesday, Google launched “Invisible reCAPTCHA,” a service that works in the background as a gatekeeper without a human having to do anything.

A new legged robot wants to wobble, crawl, and bounce its way into the market

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Minitaur in snow

Minitaur wants to get a leg up on wheeled robots

Minitaur legged robot can go places wheels can't. Read on.

If the EPA doesn't believe in science, what is it good for?

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What's left when the Environmental Protection Agency throws facts out the window?

Increasingly, science isn’t guiding the policy and budget decisions of the EPA. What will that mean for the future of the United States—and the planet? Read on.

A Himalayan salt cooking block for 82 percent off? I'd buy it.

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Himalayan Salt Cooking Block

It's $11.

A big ol' slab of salt for $11? Read on.
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