Sleep well—without worrying about all the money you're spending on your hotel room. Philipp Balunovic via Unsplash Travel gets very expensive very fast—and one of the biggest costs is the hotel room. But with all the discounts and deal-hunting sites

Stop kids from viewing inappropriate content. Hal Gatewood via Unsplash Streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu put a vast library of movies and television shows at your fingertips. But the sheer size of the repository makes it easier than

A rare bright spot for coral reefs. DepositPhotos The planet’s coral reefs are in trouble. Thanks to warming and acidifying oceans, the animals that make up coral reefs are dying, turning the reefs themselves into algae-covered ghost towns. This repr

Photo Plus Expo is underway in New York City. Jeanette D. Moses The Photo Plus Expo kicked off yesterday morning in New York City with three days of talks, workshops, portfolio reviews, and, of course, new cameras and accessories. Although a lot of t

So smooth. NASA/Jeremy Harbeck It looks like a quick photoshop job. Or the work of a secret Antarctic civilization that worshipped right angles. But this rectangular iceberg is one hundred percent natural. Okay so it’s not a perfect rectangle, but th

A chrysomya megacephala, commonly known as a blow fly. Muhammad Mahdi Karim Climate change has spurred the spread of invasive insects that devour crops, destroy homes, and spread disease. Now, rising temperatures are driving cadaver-eating blow flies

All my friends are bots. Eleanor Cummins and her incredible screenshotting abilities Twitter is cracking down on bots. A fundamental part of the social media platform’s appeal, these automated accounts provide information—and comedy and artistry—in w

People over age 65 are at higher risk for developing severe flu symptoms that could land them in the hospital Pexels By now you’ve probably heard that last year’s flu season was one of the worst on record. Preliminary estimates suggested new heights

Your credit card information is vulnerable. Depositphotos It’s become a sad reality of the modern world: Someday, your credit card information will fall into the wrong hands. Maybe hackers will compromise the number in a large data breach like the re

A 15,000 year old stemmed point. Texas A&M University History exists in the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s static. New findings, published Wednesday in Science Advances, illustrate the discovery of a dozen projectile points at the Debra L. Friedkin

Don't assume your next bout of the flu will get you a prescription. DepositPhotos Our arsenal in the endless, roving, ever-evolving battle against the influenza virus just got slightly larger. The Food & Drug Administration just announced that they h

On October 10, Hurricane Michael spun Category 4 winds around the upper reaches of the Sunshine State. With sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, the tempest was the strongest to ever hit the Florida Panhandle—and the fourth worst to make landfall i

Black widows spin some of the strongest strands of all the spiders, so researchers zapped its silk fluid with an electron beam to see what it was made of. Depositphotos It appears that spiders beat us to the age of nanomaterials by about 300 million

Lavender Fields You can almost smell the serenity through the computer screen. Pixabay Having a bad day? Light a lavender candle and let all your stress waft away. Immersing yourself in a lavender cloud may actually help reduce anxiety, according to

More space in the spectrum could free up room for additional devices. Pixabay Whether you’re sitting in a crowded Starbucks or in your busy home streaming Netflix, you want the Wi-Fi network to be fast. Earlier this week, the FCC suggested a change t

Adenoviruses are similar, structurally and in the way they affect the body, to the common cold’s rhinovirus. They typically cause mild to severe cases of upper-respiratory illnesses, but occasionally can also cause pneumonia, diarrhea, and pink-eye.

Carolina chickadees depend on the availability of high-calorie, high-protein prey, such as caterpillars, for a healthy breeding season. Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware Like songbirds? Right, many people do. It’s a different story when it comes t

Imagine on that screen there's a never ending parade of internet privacy center sites. Pixabay Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech outlining the need for digital privacy reform, especially here in the United States where we don’t enjoy legal

Super Typhoon Yutu CIRA/RAMMB The core of Super Typhoon Yutu struck Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands today—the strongest storm on record to make landfall in this U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean. The full force of the typ

Warning: This episode will make you want bubblewrap wallpaper. DepositPhotos What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s newest podcast. The Weirdest T

A British Airways Concorde performs a landing approach at Farnborough Airshow in 1978 Serendigity/Flickr Here’s how the typical storyline of technology goes: something new is invented, then it becomes old, and then we replace it with a more advanced

The term "organic" has a health halo, but organic veggies aren't necessarily going to keep you from getting cancer. Pexels There’s a lot we don’t know about organic food. But one thing we do know? That being a person who both can afford to buy organi

Apple records many of your interactions with its devices and services. Pixabay Tired of big tech companies taking data from you? Here’s your chance to get something back from one of them. Even if you’re perfectly comfortable with this type of sharing

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Sometimes you can see one of its spiral arms as a pale, foggy band across the night sky. NASA/JPL-Caltech When you gaze up into the night sky, there are thousands of stars you can see without any help from a telescope.

Bottle caps often can't be recycled, so like most plastic they end up in landfills or washing out to sea. Pexels Humans love plastic. We put it on and in everything from food wraps to face wash, and in doing so we also send it off to distant oceans a

Why is your neighbor typing so loud? Rawpixel via Unsplash Sometimes the place specifically designed for working can dampen your productivity. If you’re in an open office, it’s hard to escape others’ conversations and actually get to, say, writing yo

You can never see it all at once. Pete Sucheski Twelve black dots dance about this grid. They never actually move or vanish, but no matter how fast you twitch your eyes back and forth, you can’t seem to trap them all in your gaze at once. Ninio’s ext

Sometimes it's not about the drug—it's about how you take it. DepositPhotos In case you missed the news, Canada legalized marijuana last week, leaving the country’s 13 provinces and territories to each figure out how it will be sold in their jurisdic

If there's life on Mars, it's pretty salty. NASA/JPL-Caltech Finding liquid water on Mars in 2015 bolstered hopes that signs of life lurk somewhere on the red planet. But in practical terms, scientists have more or less ignored whether those specific