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How to ditch your Android for an iPhone—and take your files with you

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Move to iOS

Goodbye Google, hello Apple.

If you switch phones, you'll want to bring your data with you. This is particularly hard when you're moving from Android to iOS. Here's how to do it.

Cell phone batteries are destined to die, and we have physics to blame

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The second law of thermodynamics is the enemy here.

Why do batteries die? And, why can they only be recharged so many times before they won’t hold a useful amount of charge? It’s a result of the second law of…

Last week in tech: A dead robot, Tesla's surfboard, and social media meltdowns galore

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last week in tech

Catch up on last week's biggest tech stories.

Listen to our podcast while you're sufing on your Tesla surfboard.

Only 13 percent of the world’s oceans are still wild

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A small island in the ocean.

The forecast isn’t looking great, either.

Reaching the deepest depths of all the world’s oceans seems unfathomable. But new research suggests we’re getting close, and that’s not a good thing.

Mars is missing a lot of this crucial terraforming ingredient

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mars dust storm

Time for a new plan.

For people who dreamed of terraforming Mars using local greenhouse gases, this might be the situation they find themselves in—in possession of a detailed plan but…

This tiny Google product could help secure your accounts

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google key

But you can tap into similar powers without a device.

Easy steps for making your online life more secure.

How jumping genes hijack their way into the next generation of babies

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baby feet

Where do transposons do their transposing?

A third genetic element is involved in the conception process—a hitchhiker whose existence and self-propagation may be essential to life as we know it.

Two people got rat lungworm from eating raw centipedes. Could you be next?

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lungworm angiostrongylus cantonensis

The answer is yes—even if you don't like eating bugs.

Rat lungworm isn’t confined to Asia and the Caribbean anymore: It’s in the U.S. And you don’t have to knowingly eat raw bugs for the disease to strike you.

The best water-resistant and waterproof gear for the pool or beach

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We love water, but most of our gadgets don't.

The best water-resistant and waterproof gear for the pool or beach since we love water, but most of our gadgets don't.

These windows could keep the sun out while powering your house

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New solar technology could transform the way we view — and power — our world.

Researchers have developed a new material that can be applied to windows to simultaneously block out the light and harness the power of the sun.

8 books to read on your beach vacation

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Recommendations from the Popular Science staff.

8 book recommendations from the staff at Popular Science to read on your beach vacation.

The Sonos Beam is a great soundbar, but not yet an awesome listener

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sonos

This $400 device provides crisp and clean sound.

The Beam is the latest in the Sonos series of speakers meant to pull double duty.

Ancient climate change may have dragged the wild horses away

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Przewalski's horse

Maybe that's why none exist today.

It’s hard to imagine an ice age would be the ideal climate for horses, but almost 12,000 years ago, it was.

Why are some athletes able to compete into their 40s?

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Training, motivation, and luck are key to a long athletic career.

The time it takes the body to lose its peak performance might be lengthening. Could 40 be the new 20? Based on current elite athletes' ages and skills, for some, the…

Here's how 3D printing is changing photography

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Drew Castlewood with standard camera

The Standard Camera, Cameradactyl, and the PinBox are three cameras using 3D printing.

3D printing makes it easier to prototype quickly, leading to a boom of products for film photographers.

Ancient space crystals may prove the sun threw heated tantrums as a tot

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the sun

You can learn a lot from 4.5-billion-year-old rocks.

A peculiar set of ancient blue crystals from space suggest the sun emitted a much higher flux of cosmic rays in its early history than we once thought.

Did scientists discover a new shape? Well, first we have to define ‘shape.’ Also, ‘new.’

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scutoid

A cool scientific finding and a strange semantic investigation.

“Scientists just discovered a new shape” makes for a great headline—and a lot of questions. Chief among them: What the heck is a new shape?

What I learned from getting covered in whale snot

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whale spouting water below drone

Scientists can learn a lot from the substances in whale blow. To collect that spray, one research developed a special tool: a drone dubbed SnotBot.

Scientists can learn a lot from the substances in whale blow. To collect that spray, one research developed a special tool: a drone dubbed SnotBot.

The ozone hole is both an environmental success story and an enduring global threat

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balloon carrying instruments to measure ozone levels

And we should take what it's taught us into future fights.

Headlines in recent months have read like something out of an eco-thriller. Who's producing the banned chemicals we know will destroy the ozone layer?

Scientists are putting the X factor back in X-rays

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Medical imaging will be revolutionized by extreme light, artificial intelligence, and more.

The X-ray has been an essential medical tool since its discovery in 1895. Now, it’s undergoing an incredible change.
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