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This is what it takes for scientists to get you those amazing pictures of the Kilauea eruption

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lava roadblock

Photography is only a small part of volcano monitoring.

In under two hours a fissure 492 feet wide sliced through the subdivision, forcing residents to evacuate. But for the researchers, it was time to go to back to work.

Is the net still neutral?

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Net Neutrality

Wondering if Net Neutrality is still in place? Here's your answer.

Net Neutrality is in trouble, but it still has a fighting chance. Here are the important dates and developments about the rules that govern the internet.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa stays up for the same reason it leans

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leaning tower of pisa

Engineers and scientists have been fascinated by the unusual structure for half a millennium.

Earthquakes, Mussolini, two hundred years of construction misadventures—the Leaning Tower of Pisa has kept standing through it all. New research from a European team of…

Why do I get congested when I drink alcohol?

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woman drinking red wine

Alcohol allergies are pretty rare, but intolerance is a lot more common

Every time I enjoy a cold hard cider, I feel nauseated. Not immediately—first comes the congestion. Then I feel woozy. Then, hours later, my stomach churns. I wanted to…

How to keep your body cool when the weather is scorching

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staying hydrated

Four scientific tricks for temperature control.

The weather's heating up, but don’t sweat. We have four scientific ways to cool down your body without resorting to a portable AC unit.

What you need to know about the volcanic eruptions going on in Hawaii right now

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lava flow on makamae street

Volcanoes giveth, and volcanoes taketh away.

Last week, a new eruption sprouted in the Leilani Subdivision on the sprawling volcano’s southeast flank, with fissures popping up along a 2.5 mile stretch and lava…

What is a horsepower?

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horsepower

It's enough to power a coffeemaker or boil 2.2 gallons of water.

The unit of horsepower can seem abstract. Where did it come from, and what exactly does it mean? We came up with a few new ways to visualize it.

Your social security number probably got leaked and that’s very, very bad

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Social Security Number Hack

The Equifax hack exposed more than 100 million people to the worst kind of identity theft.

You can change your stolen credit card and reclaim a bank account, but a stolen social security number is a big problem.

The case for burning our way to a cleaner planet

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Earth lights from the atmosphere.

A novel and unproven plan to fight climate change and feed humanity.

An experimental approach to BECCS skips the controversy surrounding the technology and creates energy with a valuable byproduct—food.

Aluminum production could get much better for the environment

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aluminum

The breakthrough is great news for your gadgets

A new way of smelting aluminum releases oxygen, not carbon dioxide.

Your forearm is a great place to grow a new ear

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the shape of an ear on an arm

A soldier who lost her left ear in an accident just got a handy replacement.

Army private Shamika Burrage was lucky to survive a motor vehicle accident two years ago in Texas, but she lost her entire left ear in the process. Now a new, unorthodox…

Which allergy medication is the best? It's complicated.

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confused man in pharmacy

But here's our best advice.

We may not know much about allergies, but gosh darn it do we have some great drugs for them. In the United States, the allergy aisle in a typical pharmacy is a veritable…

How to brew worm tea

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worm tea illustration

For fertilizer, not drinking.

Jim Shaw has been in the worm business since he was a teenager. His favorite application of the creepy crawlers: turning their droppings into worm tea.

Americans spend more time alone than ever—but that doesn’t mean we’re lonely

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social isolation

But social media might not be a longterm solution.

Taken together, research finds that young people in the U.S. may be more socially isolated in recent years, but are paradoxically becoming less lonely. There doesn’t…

Fixing harmful smartphone habits is a lot harder than getting users hooked

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Google Dashboard

New features in the latest Android reflect a growing trend of people trying to separate from their devices.

Google's new tools try to address increasing concern from smartphone users and advocacy groups.

You’re less likely to get a tick bite if you steer clear of these spots

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a blacklegged tick on skin

It's time to start taking precautions.

Some parts of the forests may be tick magnets but the little suckers are pretty much everywhere…

If Kilauea's lava lake falls below the water table, the results could be explosive

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Here’s how that steam-powered boom could happen.

The swift and tunneling descent into the earth of a lava lake near Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano raises the potential of a different kind of eruptive event…

Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, but especially spiders who feed themselves to their babies

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We’re not the only species with reason to be grateful.

On Sunday, phone lines across the world will be at their busiest—if we all remember to call our mothers. But we’re hardly the only creatures with good reason to…

Five rad and random kitchen products I found this week

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The end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 46.

My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap. Often times, these…

Astronomy's next big discovery is probably hiding in piles of old data

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black hole eating a star

The ability to gather more information means we'll spend more time sifting through it.

Astronomers are gathering an exponentially greater amount of data every day—so much that it will take years to uncover all the hidden signals buried in the archives.
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