Plans for thousands of chemical rainmakers in the Tibetan Plateau.
To solve its water shortage problems, China is building a computerized network of tens of thousands of chemical rainmakers designed to create 10 billion tons of rainfall…
China is using furnaces to manufacture 10 billion tons of rain
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Planetary nurseries are far more varied and beautiful than we expected
Planets are basically just giant dust bunnies.
At an ESO site in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a unique telescope has allowed astronomers to make unprecedented observations of the “dusty disks” that form around young…
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Meet the test dummies NASA uses to simulate and study aircraft crashes
Here's how the space agency gathers data when planes (purposely) hit the ground hard.
At NASA’s Langley Research Center, engineers subject aircraft to what they call “severe but survivable” crashes. Here's how that works.
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Now paleontologists know what colors graced these 200-million-year-old butterfly wings
They found some nanoscale clues on the hues.
Researchers examined more than 500 butterfly specimens, ultimately selecting six that were well preserved enough to reveal their secrets. The specimens date to the…
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The horrifying maternal mortality rate in Texas turned out to be wrong, but that's not the biggest issue
The lone star state isn’t alone
Texas is, in fact, a cautionary tale, just not in the way we all thought. It’s been collecting data poorly for years now, and they’re not alone—maternal mortality rates…
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Think you’re too busy to journal? These apps let you do it on the go.
Dear digital diary...
You can journal any time, any place, by recording your daily thoughts with your phone. These five journaling apps let you jot your entries on the go.
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Mushrooms might save the world—if they don't kill us first
Some musings on our favorite mycological marvels.
Mushrooms just might be able to cut down on cow farts, wash your clothes, treat PTSD, replace styrofoam and leather, fight cancer, and save the bees.
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Great apps for creative kids
From baby Van Goghs to tiny Van Halens.
Four smartphone apps to begin your baby-Van Goghs to tiny-Van Halens on their path to art, music, and game creation.
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Intermittent fasting can help you lose weight. But can it make you live longer?
What you should know before you try it.
While people have been practicing intermittent fasting for thousands of years, it’s only in the past two decades that scientists began to understand what, if any,…
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You wanna see something crazy? Check out all the advertisers targeting you on Facebook.
It's a long list, and you've probably never heard of most of them.
The information you leave around the web is an essential tool for targeting you with ads.
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If you love staying up late and sleeping in, doing otherwise might actually hurt your health
Here’s one more way our modern sleep schedules might be killing us.
Night owls might get a rap for staying up too late watching Netflix or getting lost in meme spirals on the web, but it’s not all fun and games. Study after study shows…
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This drug can stop an opioid overdose—and you should carry it
You can learn how to administer naloxone yourself.
Last week the Surgeon General issued an advisory emphasizing that “knowing how to use naloxone and keeping it within reach can save a life.” If you’re wondering what…
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Why archaeologists are arguing about sweet potatoes
It’s a hot (potato) mess.
At some point, sweet potatoes crossed the Pacific. This much we know. As for the rest—How? When? Why?—we’re just not sure. Or, to be more clear, some people are sure…
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It's time to pick a better smartphone photo editing app
Ditch the stock Instagram filters for something more sophisticated.
Smartphones take good pictures, unfortunately, they all look the same.
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Michigan is practically giving away clean water—but not to Flint
Nestlé: 1. Michiganders: 0.
On April 2, Michigan approved Nestlé’s controversial bid to bottle hundreds of thousands of gallons of Great Lakes water. A few days later, they stopped sending water…
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A normal person's guide to this week's Facebook Congressional testimony
A lot of information came out this week. Here are the important sections in easily-digestible chunks.
Yes, Facebook tracks you when you're not logged in. No, your phone does not listen to you through your microphone.
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Something weird is happening to the Gulf Stream current
And that could mean trouble.
The ocean currents that help warm the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America have significantly slowed since the 1800s and are at their weakest in 1600 years,…
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A realistic guide to the current crop of tech rumors
Catch up on all the technology gossip without all the hype.
Keep it real with your tech rumors.
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NASA’s incredible exoplanet-hunting telescope is about to launch
TESS will give us a new view of our galactic neighborhood.
There is some good news on the horizon for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary geologists, and people who just like learning neat things about far-away worlds. It's…
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You cannot escape poop bacteria
Bathrooms are gross, but so is everything.
You may have heard there’s poop bacteria getting sprayed all over people’s hands by bathroom hand dryers. But did you know there’s poop bacteria everywhere!? That’s…
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