Innovation

SpaceX has been launching rockets since 2008, regularly setting new milestones for privately funded and developed space travel. On May 27, the company will face its biggest test yet: becoming the first private space transportation service to bring…

Losing your music just straight up sucks. We've all had the experience of jamming out while running errands and then, all of a sudden—boom—your music app crashes and you're left alone, the silence deafening. There's a good chance your music app of…

Animal Crossing might be the quarantine game of choice, but that doesn't mean it's for everyone. Maybe watering the flowers feels too much like daily chores, or maybe the design is too cutesy — whatever the reasons, we're not here to judge. There…

What began as heavy rains earlier this week has turned into a catastrophic scenario for residents of central Michigan. In what the National Weather Service has called a "life-threatening situation," the swelling of rainwater resulted in flooding,…

2020 is still dragging us along by the collar, and with all that's going on a lot of people just want off this trash planet. That's gotta help explain why all the NASA news about the SpaceX astronaut launch and theories about parallel universes is…

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, working from home was viewed as a perk. Now it has become a necessity. And as states begin to reopen and ease back into something resembling normalcy (for better or worse), more companies are considering keeping…

The Supreme Court of Singapore sentenced a man to death via a Zoom call on Friday, the Singapore newspaper the Straits Times reported. The decision was handed down via the video conferencing app as the city-state remains largely in lockdown due to…

The decision by countries around the world to quarantine their citizens in order to slow the spread of coronavirus had an unintended side effect: one of the most significant short-term drop-offs in greenhouse gas emissions on record. According to a…

A researcher from the University of Copenhagen's Natural History Museum of Denmark was checking out extreme close-ups of the North American millipede on Twitter (as one does) when she noticed white spots on its carapace. While the specks might look…

While the response to the coronavirus pandemic has left more than 36 million Americans unemployed, Amazon is one of the few employers that have actively continued to hire people throughout the crisis. The company claims to have brought on 175,000…

Afghanistan has so far reported 2,200 cases and at least 64 deaths from coronavirus, although officials believe the actual numbers are higher. Two weeks ago, a United States Congress watchdog report warned that Afghanistan is headed toward a "health…

Club Penguin is a relic of a bygone era of the internet, back when Flash games ruled the world. It has persisted despite neglect and abandonment from Disney, which acquired the game in 2007 and shut it down in 2017. Fan-run servers have preserved a…

There are approximately 15,000 animal species living in sanctuaries and zoos, many of them endangered or at risk of extinction in the wild. Wildlife photographer Joel Sartore has made it his mission to record all of them before it's too late.…

There is still an incredible amount of uncertainty surrounding coronavirus, which has already infected more than four million people and claimed more than 300,000 lives globally. Even as cases start to slow in some regions, the risk of a second wave…

The pandemic has forced a lot of people to rethink how they do their jobs. From restaurants pivoting to delivery-only and white-collar workers switching to home offices, many are either changing up their workplaces or finding new hobbies that keep…

While campaigning in 2016, Donald Trump promised he would save the coal industry. And since taking office, he’s done everything in his power to deliver on that promise. He's held rallies in coal country, touting his "Trump digs coal" mantra and…

When you've been quarantining for weeks on end and the walls around you start to feel like they're closing in, losing yourself in the dream of getting the hell off this planet is a fantasy worth indulging. Think about it: The vast emptiness of space…

The growth of cities, both in the United States and around the world, has skyrocketed since the 1950s. Millions of people have migrated to metropolitan areas in pursuit of career opportunities, education, and lifestyles. But the shift to…

Facebook has been on the receiving end of unrelenting scrutiny over the last couple of years, particularly from lawmakers and regulators who have started to crack down on some of the company's behavior. In order to get back on their good side,…