Don't let the phrase "Gmail redesign" make you panic
The new Gmail redesign offers some handy features and a new look.
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Here’s what to expect when you try out the new Gmail
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Good job: Arctic sea ice is full of our junk plastic
Scientists now have a better idea of just how much microplastic reaches the Arctic. It's a lot.
A new study from researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany found that microplastic—tiny chunks only a few micrometers long that are easily ingested by…
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What Amazon’s in-car delivery service means for your vehicle's future
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Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water
High impact research.
Water is everywhere on our planet. If it's not crashing against the shore, it's pounding on the roof, or dripping from the faucet, or pooling unfortunately right in that…
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If you grow a brain in a lab, will it have a mind of its own?
As our ability to create organs expands, ethical questions come into play.
There are lots of reasons one might want to grow brains. For starters, they would allow us to study human neurological issues in detail, which is otherwise quite…
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How to finally organize your contact list
Tips and tricks for the Apple, Google, and Microsoft contact apps.
Your contacts are in a hopeless jumble. Organize them with these tips and tricks for the Apple, Google, and Microsoft contacts apps.
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Researchers think 9/11 gave first responders cancer—but proving it will be nearly impossible
New York City's fire department has assembled one of the largest firefighter research populations in the world.
Two new studies, published in the journal JAMA Oncology, analyze cancer risks among firefighters who responded to the World Trade Center attack.
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Here's why you've been getting so many privacy policy and terms of service updates lately
Thanks the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) for the recent assault on your inbox.
All those updated privacy policy notices in your inbox are coming from a new European internet privacy law.
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Future offshore drilling could wreak havoc on deep sea ecosystems
Every step of the drilling process can cause harm to the delicate ocean environment
Marine scientists say that opening up more areas to drilling means disruption for marine ecosystems and an even greater increased risk for oil spills.
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Human thigh bones apparently make excellent weapons in close combat
Ancient daggers carved from femurs were pretty fierce.
It turns out human bones, especially thigh bones, were prized by New Guinean warriors as materials which could be carved into exceptionally strong, fierce daggers.
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Feel like the seasons are all out of whack? You can help scientists prove it.
Weekend warriors are tracking the early emergence of spring.
Climate change is causing spring to arrive earlier and earlier, posing a challenge for plants and animals —as well as the scientists who study them. So now they're…
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Our bravest ancestors may have hunted giant sloths
Or maybe they were just having fun?
You might think a ground sloth would be easy to kill. What’s it gonna do, walk away from you at half a mile per hour? If you, like me, made this joke when reading the…
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Defend your house against ants—with science
No thanks, ants. No thants.
It’s spring now, which means warmer days, budding flowers—and the first onslaught of ants. Here are a few ways to prevent them from taking over your home.
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10 solar-powered products to keep your devices juiced
Stay in charge wherever the sun shines.
Power your life with these 10 solar-powered products that'll keep your phone charged, music blasting, and room lit.
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What we can learn from the new detailed map of 1.3 billion stars
The Gaia satellite charts stars like never before.
The truth is, scientists don’t know the exact positions or velocities of the vast majority of the stars in the Milky Way. But now a new tranche of data from the European…
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Can my dog get me sick?
It’s possible, but it’s not the most likely culprit.
Unfortunately for us, the line of disease transmission does not end with germy children and coughing colleagues. Dogs, cows, mosquitos, ticks, mice, sushi, your…
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The EPA is jeopardizing scientific research and privacy in the name of ‘transparency’
It sounds like something you'd want, but it makes public health research almost impossible.
On their face, transparency and reproducibility are hard to argue against—they are fundamental principles of the scientific method—but in practice, calls for greater…
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China has big plans for a modern bomber
The H-20 is China's future stealth bomber.
The H-20 is China's future stealth bomber with a strategic reach. Plans for other bombers, though, are less clear.
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What can you learn from Chris Hadfield's class on how to be an astronaut?
He thinks spaceflight will soon be routine.
So many people long to be astronauts when they grow up, but only a few people ever actually make it to space. The ones that do are emissaries for the rest of us, their…
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Disney's haptic VR jacket lets you feel snowball impacts and snakes slithering
The future of VR goes beyond sight and sound.
Made out of a converted life jacket, the Force Jacket uses airbags that inflate, deflate, or vibrate to literally give its wearer a feeling of being touched.
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