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Using sea charts and satellites, the effort will trace how the kelp beds are changing in response to global warming and commercial harvesting.

And what does that mean for making a little wire LED man light up?

Now is a good time to grab some sweet Switch games, Apple’s Magic Keyboard, or an Apple Watch Series 6 at a discounted price.

The denizens of the WallStreetBets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

They're more trusted and better distributed than pharmacies, and they're built for emergencies.

No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs.

The computer ceased production in 1993, but fans are still making games for it.

During her confirmation hearing, the Treasury nominee said that blockchain-based financial networks are “a particular concern.”

Well, that and the fact that @POTUS now follows Chrissy Teigen.

This week, we round up tips for staying organized, energized, and mostly sane as we all ride out the rest of the pandemic.

This is not the solution to our climate problems; it's a sweetheart deal for Big Ag.

The legendary developer’s new memoir brought back poignant memories of one of his most famous games—and of the hours I played with my dad.

With Donald Trump no longer the heart of online discourse, there's room for a powerful shift.

Researchers and airlines that obsessed over efficiency have spent the past year worrying about safety too.

Plus: The moonshot’s launch, health care for the maskless, and a new era’s inaugural meme.

Nick Sawhney's “Bernie Sits" puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View.

Facebook has to decide whether to give the ex-president his bullhorn back. It won’t make that call itself.

The price tag might still make you blink, but Samsung’s new flagship has one of the best cameras in a smartphone.

Scientists say they've got 20-million-year-old evidence of giant worms that hunted in pretty much the most nightmarish way possible.

Using voice-activation tech and nature-inspired soundscapes, these space are designed to give medical workers some respite from the Covid-19 front lines.

Spirituality is only one tool in this community leader's toolkit for bringing people closer together. Character sheets are another.

China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up ground.

Biden’s first-day actions signal that he’s serious about global warming. But he’s got to make up for four years of lost time.

The far-right platform still hasn’t found a US-based home. Where it lands could have serious consequences for its users’ privacy.

Few people could witness Joe Biden and Kamala Harris get sworn in in person. Instead, we watched (and tried to make sense of it all) online.

Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.

Booting Trump didn’t set a precedent. From Yelp to Uber to Airbnb, platforms regularly ban users and content, but too often behind the scenes.

It’s cold and you’re probably still quarantined. Time to get reading. Start with these tales of reimagined histories and cloned partners.

If you're in your home office for the long haul, you can still get the TLC you need for your IT. Here are some options.

It won't prevent teens from later becoming smokers. But some health experts say that focusing on the risk of addicting new smokers cuts off a chance to help adults quit.

It’s not just about the pandemic. How the new administration handles Covid-19 will be a test of every one of its policies—and its values.

The company’s software can sift through enormous amounts of data, and those metrics can be used to make life-or-death decisions.

When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottle. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040.

The supply chain threat was just the beginning.

The two major investigations into the origins of the pandemic are compromised by potential conflicts of interest. Those problems need to be fixed—fast.

Social media gave the Real Dr. 6ix a stage on which to show off liposuctions and breast lifts. But when cosmetic surgery becomes entertainment, who owns the story?

This winter, I’m lighting a new fire in old Hyrule with my five-year-old.

An algorithm discovered dozens of Martian craters. It’s a promising remote method for exploring our solar system and understanding planetary history.

Does the algorithm know you too well? Here’s how to shake up your recommendations for a more varied listening experience.

If you’re thinking, “Oh, I just need to suck it up,” stop. What you’re feeling is real. Here’s how to cope.

In Pixar’s new film, Soul, the protagonist wakes up in the body of a cat. It’s a common enough trope—but it gets messier the more you think about it.

The robo-vessel will map the ocean floor, and its solar-powered sensors will sample fish DNA and collect climate data.

Over the course of his presidency, he managed to be consistently wrong, outrageous, and dangerous in equal measure. We look back at his most notorious remarks.

Reopening in the fall was a massive gamble. At one high-poverty elementary school, navigating the risks paid off.

Elemental reactions, like shooting a dynamite-filled barrel or using an ice spell to cross a stream, are an important way for designers to bring worlds to life.

Launching rockets from planes is a decades-old concept that never really took off. Billionaire Richard Branson thinks its time has come.

Our nation’s failure to invest in information technology has severely limited our Covid response. A federal chief experience officer could change that.

Imagine if we lived on a cube-shaped Earth. How would you find the shortest path around the world?