Buckle up for a bumpy legal battle about your next car's emissions.
The 2025 EPA emissions standards may face repeal, but there's a long legal fight before that can happen.
Scott Pruitt wants to roll back the EPA's requirements for clean vehicles. It's going to be a fight.
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These seafaring robots will search for life across the solar system
Submarines and rovers will go for a dive on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
Submarines and rovers will go for a dive on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn…
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If we’re going to capture our carbon emissions, we might as well put them to use
Instead of storing carbon, researchers want to convert it into fuel.
While scientists tend to talk about carbon capture and storage—one approach to fighting climate change — De Luna thinks the future instead will be about carbon capture…
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Self-care doesn’t have to cost you a dang thing
Forget the retail therapy. It’s time for some real talk.
The concept of “self-care” is inescapable, between the social media posts about rejuvenating mani-pedis and TED talks about the restorative properties of journaling. But…
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Tornadoes are a little different when they happen on the sun
Also in space: A neighborhood of black holes, a new (and old) reason to study Venus' clouds, and the end of the Lunar XPrize.
This was a busy week for space. We heard about hopes for life on Venus, neighborhoods of black holes, and distant stars. Oh, and solar tornadoes. What's up with those?
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MIT is making a device that can 'hear' the words you say silently
It's like having Siri listen to your internal commands.
Students from MIT have created a prototype device, dubbed AlterEgo, that can recognize the words you mouth when silently talking to yourself.
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Humans may have a surprising evolutionary advantage: Expressive eyebrows
Scientists still aren’t sure why early humans had such weird skulls—or why we don’t.
It’s one of the first things you notice when you look at archaic humans in a textbook or museum. Just above the eyes rests an imposing feature, a prominent brow ridge…
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This guy ate a pepper so hot doctors thought he might be having an aneurysm
The Carolina Reaper gets everyone in the end.
You know the feeling: You’re just trying to compete in a pepper-eating contest and your poor stomach thinks you’ve maybe swallowed a whole fire. It’s trying to save you,…
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Music can seriously improve your workout. Here's how to create the perfect playlist.
And choose the right headphones to go with it.
Countless studies have shown the right music can help you exercise longer and harder. Here's how to harness that science in the perfect workout playlist.
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Here's what you need to know before Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in Washington
It's not going to be a fun trip to see the cherry blossoms
Mark Zuckerberg will talk user data, Russian meddling, and possible regulations…
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The surprising politics of sidewalks
It takes a lot more than concrete to get a sidewalk built.
For communities all over America, sidewalks present an increasingly contentious debate over issues of infrastructure spending, safety, and the rights of the individual.
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Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal: how to find out if your data was compromised
Are you one of the unlucky 87 million?
A simple check to see if your Facebook data ended up in the wrong hands.
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Let's watch Mark Zuckerberg testify in front of Congress
Get ready for the wildest couple hours C-Span has to offer.
Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington to testify in front of House and Senate committees. Let's watch, shall we?
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These ancient, swimming reptiles may have been the biggest animals of all time
England's ichthyosaurs have changed the course of paleontology again.
In 2016, Paul de la Salle was walking along the beach in the British town of Lilstock when he came across a rock that looked suspiciously bone-like. Specifically, a…
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California’s snow drought is a recipe for danger
Scant snowfall is fueling drought, floods, wildfires and mudslides.
The Sierra Nevada snowpack is exceptionally meager this year, putting California’s water supply at risk and portending more floods, wildfires and mudslides over the…
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A third of heavy pot users suffer severe nausea—and they’ve all landed on the same weird solution
But there's got to be a better way.
CHS is a condition where heavy marijuana users are frequently wracked with bouts of intense abdominal pain, along with severe nausea and vomiting. And the vast majority…
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Contagious cancer is killing off Tasmanian devils, but there might finally be hope
This could save the species from extinction.
Tasmanian devils are one of the very few unlucky creatures on this planet to carry a transmissible cancer. Nearly 95 percent of affected populations have died (and most…
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Even apps go on sale—here’s how to get the lowest price
Set up price-drop alerts.
Although you can download many apps for free, sometimes, you need to pay up for a program. To bring down that cost, here's how to set up price-drop alerts.
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Watch: Day two of Mark Zuckerberg's Washington testimony
Follow along with all the social network drama
Mark Zuckerberg is back on the stand in front of the House.
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Is a hot dog a sandwich? The Apollo 13 astronauts had some thoughts
The ubiquitous American food flew aboard quite a number of missions
Forty-eight years ago today, a Saturn V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center, sending astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise into space on NASA’s…
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