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Five experts on how time shapes our world—and how our minds shape time

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If you’ve ever waited in line, you need to read this.

Five experts on how time shapes our world—and how our minds shape time…

In photos: The last great American watchmaker

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Watchmakers use century-old tools to turn gold and gems into timepieces.

In Pennsylvania, watchmakers use tools from 100 years ago to turn gold and gems into timepieces.

60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race

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Here’s how it all began.

A sharp, insistent beep sang out over short-wave radios, filling up our ears with the knowledge that humans had succeeded in the impossible.

Another hurricane could threaten the Gulf Coast this weekend

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Tropical Depression Sixteen off the coast of Nicaragua on October 4, 2017.

The season isn't over yet.

A developing tropical depression in the Caribbean could threaten the Gulf Coast as a hurricane this weekend, but the storm's future is far from certain.

A man who's participated in 41 space missions remembers the Sputnik launch

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Reflections from a prodigious force in space exploration.

When it comes to space exploration, Don Gurnett has seen it all.

WATCH: How long is a year?

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Six year old boy and the Grand Canyon

Sometimes one year can feel like one million.

As things age, each trip around the sun becomes an ever-shrinking percentage of its lifetime. So how does a year feel to a first grader compared to the Grand Canyon?

To support breast cancer research, skip pink ribbons and check out these charities

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Spend your dollars on research that might actually save lives.

Your money is valuable, and it should go to a charity that’s going to do some good with it. As a high profile disease, breast cancer has plenty of organizations that you…

Uber can actually help prevent drunk driving accidents—in some cities

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Uber App

Researchers still don’t fully understand the relationship between ridesharing, cities, and crashes.

New research shows that Uber’s presence in a city only inconsistently leads to a decline in accidents caused by intoxication behind the wheel, and there’s far from being…

These male jumping spiders evolved dance moves because the ladies ignore them

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jumping spider mating dance

This is the cutest that spider mating has ever been.

You don't often feel bad for spiders, but this video will make you sorry for these little guys.

How to find out what Facebook knows about you

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Facebook

The social media behemoth is watching.

Do you know where your data is? Here are all the ways Facebook tries to build a profile of you, and the information it collects to do so.

These creatures are smart, playful, and incredibly alien

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Tamed and Untamed.

Everyone wanted to pet Octavia.
 She was beautiful, graceful, and affectionate. She was also boneless, slimy, and living in painfully cold water.

The year's most awe-inspiring—and devastating—wildlife photos

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These are 2017's big winners.

These images from the National History Museum, London's 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest are both heartbreaking and joyful.

Find out what winter has in store for your state this year

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snowy field sky

And why the forecast involves a lot of waffling.

All we want to know is whether we’ll get a big ol’ snowstorm. So, sorry in advance. This isn’t that kind of forecast—the one you want doesn’t exist. Here's why.

Why and how you should switch to Linux

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Ubuntu

It's time for a change.

The Linux operating system boasts stronger security, bundled apps, and better performance on old hardware. Not sure how to switch? We've got you covered.

Bugs are buzzing off, and that's very bad

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a butterfly sits on a frog

Insect populations are on the decline.

Insects don't exist solely to annoy us—the Earth needs them. But apparently we're killing them off.

Five rad and random digital frames I found this week

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The end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 27.

Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap. Below, some digital photo frames to keep your memories…

Your memories are less accurate than you think

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How do police extract eyewitness accounts they can trust?

If you question someone the right way, you can extract memories of events that took place years ago. Yet our memories can also be contaminated by outside forces,…

You can now navigate Windows 10 by walking around a virtual mansion

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

The Fall Creators Update is here for Windows 10 and it's heavy on the Mixed Reality elements.

Mixed reality, malware protection, and a whole new look for Windows 10 in the Fall Creators Update.

When you get a stitch in your side, what's really going on?

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runner cramp

Doctors still don’t know what causes it, or how to stop it

There’s no standard advice for how to prevent a side stitch, because we don’t know the mechanism that produces the pain in the first place.

Adobe is training AI to be a better photo and video editor than you

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Adobe AI editing demos

Tech demos from the Max convention show impressive tech, all driven by machine learning

Colorizing photos, removing objects from videos, matching artistic styles, and some other fascinating AI tech from Adobe.
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