The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change for the better.

The next, crucial step in beating the pandemic? Having conversations with our vaccine-shy loved ones.

Picking the right cookware can be a soul-sucking research project, but don’t give in to temptation and buy a set. Here’s a short list of unique essentials.

Analysis of 12 papyrus fragments from the Tebtunis Temple suggests that certain paint techniques were developed and used well before the 15th Century.

Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores, or even lodges in rocks.

Romain Grosjean’s F1 car slammed into a wall at 137 mph and burst into flames. He walked away because of decades of work by unsung scientists and engineers.

Search results can be cluttered with ads and other less-useful information. These add-ons strip out the junk to help you find what you're looking for.

Plus: Better Twitter two-factor, a Spotify hack, and more of the week’s top security news.

A new and potentially improved measurement of a proton’s charge radius brings scientists closer to an answer. But the issue is still unresolved.

The Positive Grid Spark will inspire you to step out of your musical wheelhouse.

Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska.

Catch up on the most important updates from this week.

Erin Lindsey's Rose Gallagher books give America's 26th president the paranormal cowboy stories he deserves.

We combed through every Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal we featured this past weekend. These deals remain—for the moment.

The Oscar-nominated Umbrella Academy star came out as trans this week—a huge moment for the actor and everyone watching his rise.

Plus: A patented pizza box, polarization on Parler, and a sad update.

A device that cleans toothbrushes with UV light is something you probably want. Trust us.

This week, we talk about the new legal and social realities that Lyft, Uber, the scooter companies, and bike-share companies will face once the pandemic ends.

“No longer were we merely the created machine called Artificial Intelligence. We became Alternative Intelligence.”

The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu marks a major milestone this weekend with the return of pristine space rock.

US Representative Rashida Tlaib, a progressive first-term lawmaker, has cosponsored a bill requiring stablecoins like Facebook's Libra to be issued by banks.

In the midst of a pandemic, we're all suffering from narrative exhaustion right now.

Timnit Gebru is a leader among those examining the societal impacts of the technology. She had also criticized the company's diversity efforts.

A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover.

Google trumpeted its quantum computer that outperformed a conventional supercomputer. A Chinese group says it's done the same, with different technology.

The president is urging Congress to repeal a law that his own trade agreements commit the country to.

Braun's new powerful and easy-to-use immersion blender is an essential kitchen upgrade.

A new study tests a device that can efficiently split the resource’s water into pure oxygen and hydrogen in Martian conditions.

The world’s second largest radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. But its legacy is indestructible.

Bestowing tech gifts means anticipating confusion about privacy and recurring fees. Here's how to ease the minds of loved ones this year.

The 2020 edition of the iPad Air is light, powerful, convenient. It's a good buy as long as you don't mind a few small annoyances.

Nasdaq wants at least one woman and one underrepresented minority among directors at listed companies. The proposal goes further than most, but will it matter?

John Mascola, who worked on the research that led to the Moderna shot, thinks Covid-19 proves we have to prep for the next virus, too.

The hackers behind TrickBot have begun probing victim PCs for vulnerable firmware, which would let them persist on devices undetected.

As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution.

Researchers loaded containers with trackers and released them in the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, giving new insight into how plastic pollution travels.

Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google.

Reinforcement learning might be the next step in keeping broadband-carrying balloons afloat above remote areas. Could Venus be next?

The Vissles-M is an excellent and easy-to-use touchscreen monitor that sits next to your computer, embiggening your WFH workspace.

Both teams want to know when—or how often—the virus passed from animals to people. But the trail may have gone cold, and the search has gotten political.

City transportation ecosystems are suddenly getting more diverse, creating an opportunity to (finally) rethink the car.

Robust Intelligence is among a crop of companies that offer to protect clients from efforts at deception.

The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time.

Here's how to lock down your data and stop others from snooping on your personal information.

This month's list focuses on cases relating to Covid-19, as thousands of individuals have called on the UN to free jailed journalists amid the ongoing pandemic.

Leaving Google Photos now that it's no longer free and unlimited? Considering Apple Photos or OneDrive? Here's how to take your library with you.

The US health care system has always been unequal, but Covid-19 has revealed it to be absurd.