August 2020 Innovation Articles
- Rest easy smooth handfish, the first fish species in modern history to go extinct
- A piloted flying car just had its first successful test in Japan
- California sues Trump for the 100th time, this time to save an essential environmental regulation
- How to clean your keyboard and mouse
- 17-year-old Hayat Muse is fighting to end education inequality for the next generation
- The government can't stop flooding, so it's just relocating entire neighborhoods inland
- Our massive amounts of data might bring about an "information catastrophe," a new study warns
- Hurricane Laura is coming at the worst possible time
- Senate Democrats' plan to fight climate change is better than nothing, I guess?
- Why this year's wildfire season is particularly catastrophic
- This easy fix could save thousands of birds from bloody wind turbine death each year
- Scientists think they've solved the mystery behind Earth's second major extinction event
- Amsterdam solved its "wild peeing" problem with hemp planters you can (legally) urinate in
- A plane that could get you from New York to Paris in 3.5 hours could soon be a reality
- Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?
- How to create a compost for your home garden
- TikTok goes on the offensive, suing the Trump administration
- The Earth is losing ice at a "mind-blowing" rate, scientists warn
- The asteroid hurtling toward Earth right before Election Day is peak 2020
- Face mask pollution could lead to an environmental disaster
- The 3 best cheap soundbars
- The 5 best tablets under $100
- Greenland's ice sheet lost over a billion tons of ice per day in 2019
- California can't fight the fires ravaging its state because coronavirus is ravaging its prison system
- Data-informed predictive policing was heralded as less biased. Is it?
- California is burning. Here's what you need to know about the wildfires currently raging in the state
- A black hole and a cosmic gas cloud are beating in sync and scientists don't know why
- A new study confirms systemic racism is horrible for the environment, too
- Extreme heat could get 30 times worse by 2100
- Scientists just found a criminally cute elephant shrew that was missing for 50 years
- Against all logic, Trump is opening the biggest patch of wilderness left in the US for oil drilling
- Scientists have developed a way to see how much microplastic is inside of us
- A new study says Facebook "actively promotes" Holocaust denial
- Zipcar keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- Scientists think Death Valley just hit the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth
- Incredibly rare "fire tornadoes" hit California this weekend, because of course they did
- The feds seized $2 million in Bitcoin from al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Hamas
- This weird reptile with a 9-foot neck was "one of the most baffling animals that ever lived"
- Venmo or Zelle? Which money app is right for you?
- 6 former EPA heads laid out a plan to rescue the agency after Trump
- Trump's wall is threatening at least 8 endangered species, according to government emails
- New research shows "terror crocodiles" had teeth the size of bananas
- What ever happened to those coronavirus contact tracing apps?
- Obama required gas companies to fix methane leaks. Trump is set to undo that rule
- Space Force just released a document called "spacepower" that explains what it actually does
- Amazon wants to launch thousands of satellites into space, and astronomers are pissed
- Venmo keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- Uber suggests drivers should have insurance or vacation, but not both
- Meet the guy who built his own personal time machine
- A 99 million-year-old "hell ant" was found in amber murdering its prey
- 9 apps to make going green easier
- The 5 best tablets under $200
- The 5 best cheap printers
- 8 ways you can help save the oceans from home
- Damaged ecosystems allow diseases like coronavirus to thrive
- BP says it will be carbon neutral by 2050
- A new smart mask can translate eight languages and transcribe notes
- If Trump can bully TikTok into selling, which company is next?
- Instagram's TikTok knockoff, Reels, is finally here. Here's how to use it
- We've reached the "zombie cicada" stage of 2020
- Climate change will kill more people than all infectious diseases combined, new study says
- Everything we know about the alleged teen mastermind behind the biggest hack in Twitter history
