Anker’s minimalistic home backup batteries are ready for blackout season
Nearly a year since it was first announced, Anker is finally selling its Solix whole-home battery backup solution in North America. The Solix X1 is just 5.9 inches thick and…
Why Haven’t Hoverbikes Taken Off?
Ever since Return of the Jedi premiered in 1983, people have been imagining the day when they, like the film’s protagonist Luke Skywalker, would get to ride speeder bikes that…
How to Get Free Kindle Books With Your Library Card (2021)
You've always wanted to read Infinite Jest, and now you finally have enough time on your hands to get through all 1,079 pages. Sure, you could grab it from a…
How to design a volunteering program in your workplace
More workplaces are bolstering their volunteer programs, especially as employee demands grow for socially responsible employers and engagement. Nearly three in five companies surveyed by the Association of Corporate Citizenship…
Grizzly bears are set to be reintroduced to Washington state, after years of debate
Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascades mountain range, the federal government said this week — a decision that followed years of bitterly divided debate.But it may…
US back on moon, with difficult landing for first private-sector craft
More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, an American spacecraft is back on the moon, marking the first lunar landing by any private company and a step toward the…
The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean
This image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in April 2024 shows bioluminescence in the sea whip coral Funiculina sp. observed under red light in a laboratory. Most…
ISS Space Debris Landed on a Florida Family’s Home
The risk of being injured by falling space debris is supposedly “under 1 in 100 billion,” according to the European Space Agency (ESA), but for one family in Naples, it…
Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to see the Lyrids this April and when do they peak?
Shutterstock/Ingo Bartussek One of the meteor showers I look forward to every year is the Lyrids, which peaks this year on 22 April. Its display will be dampened this time…
5 extraordinary ideas about the mind and what it means to be conscious
The question of consciousness is one of the biggest mysteries in scienceYuichiro Chino/Getty Images Two years after opening our bureau in New York, we are delighted to share that New…