Can’t Set Off Fireworks? Try These Science-Backed Alternatives
The Fourth of July, Independence Day, America’s birthday—whatever you want to call it, this holiday is a time for celebration....
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Mapping Apps for Camping and Hiking: AllTrails, Gaia, Topo Maps+
Ah, the great outdoors. The flora, the fauna, the welcome mystery of the open trail stretched before you. You’ve left...
REI 4th of July Sale: 13 Summer Outdoors Deals for 2019
You can't set off fireworks inside. Don't try and prove me wrong. It's just physics. Whether you're camped out in...
Remote Mount Michael volcano hosts persistent lava lake
Image copyright USGS/NASA/LANDSAT-8 Image caption This satellite image has been coloured to highlight the lava lake Satellite pictures confirm there...
US top of the garbage pile in global waste crisis
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Trucks line up at an incinerator in the US where rubbish burning is often...
Caroline Criado Perez Explains the ‘Gender Data Gap’
Caroline Criado Perez is a social activist and journalist who, in 2017, successfully campaigned for British banknotes to feature the...
How to Take Photos of Fireworks With Your Phone
A thrilling fireworks display can confuse the automated settings on your smartphone. The explosions are fast, dynamic, and bright, and...
Climate change: Antarctic Peninsula ‘can still avoid irreversible change’
Image copyright Maxar DigitalGlobe Image caption The Wilkins Ice Shelf underwent a series of fragmentation events from the late 2000s...
Climate change: Heatwave made ‘at least’ five times more likely by warming
Image copyright NASA Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely...
‘Football pitch’ of Amazon forest lost every minute
An area of Amazon rainforest roughly the size of a football pitch is now being cleared every single minute, according...
Microsoft’s Ebook Apocalypse, Facebook Drug Ads, and More News
It turns out you don't actually own your ebooks; those "Hims" and "Hers" ads you always see are against the...
Why You Still Can’t Buy Fireworks on Amazon
It may be known as the “everything store,” but there are some things, in fact, that Amazon does not sell....
Fujifilm Instax Mini LiPlay Review: A Cam and Printer In One
Despite the naysayers, print film refuses to die. Kodak resurrected one of it's most popular films, Ektachrome, and Fujifilm has...
Night King: Australia bee fly named after Game of Thrones villain
Image copyright Alamy/CSIRO A new species of bee fly in Australia has been named after Game of Thrones villain the...
The Second Coming of the Robot Pet
Mita Yun didn’t get into robotics to save the world. The lunar rovers she built as a student at Carnegie...
Glastonbury: Sir David Attenborough hails plastic ban
Sir David Attenborough has taken to the stage at Glastonbury to thank festival-goers for cutting their plastic use.The naturalist appeared...
From Cameras to Kayaks, All the Stuff We Loved This Month
The bidet has been loved and uncontroversially utilized by much of the world. So why hasn't it been widely adopted...
Microsoft’s Ebook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
Your iTunes movies, your Kindle books—they’re not really yours. You don’t own them. You’ve just bought a license that allows...
