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The ocean harbors unimaginable secrets, but we need to explore them responsibly

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Familiarity breeds exploitation.

Rather than declaring the deep sea off-limits, we think our best course of action is to regain our fascination with it.

You can use aluminum foil to strengthen your Wi-Fi signal

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Wi-Fi foil router

But we don't 100 percent think you actually need to do this.

Metal reflects Wi-Fi waves, a fact you can even take advantage of to shape the signal in your home.

Meet the very good dogs who hunt down invasive species

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Seamus spots a weed in Missoula, Montana.

They can sniff out troublesome weeds and other pests.

In 2011, Seamus and Lily made their first forays into the Montana brush, sniffing out hundreds of noxious weeds. Now there are hardly any left.

Airmega 400S review: This smart purifier will clear the air and your bank account

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Airmega review

It's beautiful and effective, but comes at a high price.

If you want seriously clean air, this is the box for you. Bring money.

We'd rather that bridges never wobbled—but here's why they do

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Millennium Bridge

And we'd really prefer that they don't fall down.

Bridges are humans way of bandaging holes in the earth that are too vast for our frail bodies to cross easily.

12 essential widgets that belong on your Android home screen

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Android widgets

Trick out your phone.

Only Android users can enjoy widgets, which customize screens and let you access apps without opening them. Here are 12 essential ones to make iPhones jealous.

Music only helps you concentrate if you’re doing the right kind of task

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Music and concentration

If the task requires creativity or mental rotation, music can increase performance.

How sound affects performance has been the topic of laboratory research for over 40 years, and is observed through a phenomenon called the irrelevant sound effect.

It takes six months to lose all your holiday weight. Here’s how to avoid gaining it instead.

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pumpkin pie thanksgiving

All dieting is yo-yo dieting.

This is not a pitch against eating. This is a pitch for mindful eating and intelligent exercise—because that’s how you’ll break the annual cycle.

A brief, 20,000-year history of timekeeping

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As clocks got more accurate, we had to redefine the second.

Humans have been tracking time for millennia. As clocks became more accurate, they eventually became more precise than the very definition of the second.

31 ways to optimize your smartphone

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Optimize your smartphone.

Be ready for anything life throws your way.

As smartphones become more and more capable, it’s clear these fantastical devices are going nowhere. Whether you’re planning a trip or simply want to be a smarter (and…

Electroshock therapy is actually still in use—and could help treat PTSD

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The treatment has changed a lot in the last few decades.

Patients with PTSD treated with ECT after thinking about their traumatic memory had a marked decrease in their emotional reaction to that memory.

The 2017 hurricane season is finally fading away. But what comes next?

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Hurricane Matthew

In some ways, this year wasn't as bad as it could have been.

This year saw 17 named storms, 10 of which strengthened into hurricanes and six of which reached category three or stronger.

Last week in tech: the calm before next week's Black Friday storm

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Netgear Alro Light

It's almost time for shopping free-for-alls

Twitter is different, iPhone typing was broken, and Bang and Olufsen make a speaker we can almost afford.

After a brief pause, carbon emissions are back on the rise

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Pollution

Time to turn words into action.

The road to a very hot place is paved with good intentions. No, not hell, just the future.

Why does my arm hurt the day after I get my flu shot?

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a little girl with a bandaid on her arm

And why does it go in your arm instead of your butt?

Flu shots are painful because someone is jabbing a pointed bit of metal into your arm and forcing fluid into your body. But why does it sometimes hurt more the next day?

Your last-minute training guide to dominating this year's Turkey Trot

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If you haven't started preparing yet.

Just like any long distance road race, a Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot requires training and practice. But it's not too late to start preparing.

Yes, the frilled shark is really freaky. But there are other 'living fossils' that are just as weird.

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stuffed frill shark head

A short tour of the strange sharks chilling at the bottom of the ocean.

Someone pulled something freaky looking out of the bottom of the ocean, and now Google News is flooded with headlines about “living fossils.”…

Here’s how scientists are tricking you into eating your veggies

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Step one: Plant some fake childhood memories in your noggin.

Because just telling people how healthy vegetables are doesn’t really hack it.

Elgato Eve Degree Review: A smart-but-spendy way to track your home's climate

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Elgato Degree

This HomeKit device measures temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure.

Track the environmental variables inside and outside your home.

From an evolutionary perspective, does it make any sense to be nice?

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offering daisies

Solving Darwin’s puzzle of kindness.

How could cooperative populations, which allegedly survived better than competitive populations, have evolved in the first place?
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