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These free, simple tools for phone or web let you visualize urban sprawl or see what your street looked like before the turn of the millennium.

What exactly is a geode and how do crystals form inside of them?

Google appears to be preparing a few additions to the Pixel phone's "At a Glance" widget that will make it easier to track the status of your Uber ride or food delivery.

While bland architecture can symbolize displacement, research shows that they can actually help fight it.

Paleontologists have unearthed a new dinosaur species with tiny arms. The species, newly named Meraxes gigas, is a carnivorous species that would have gone extinct at the start of the Late Cretaceous period, roughly 90 t...

In January 1951, Mt. Hood Oregon unveiled its unique aerial tram, only to shut it down soon after.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of human-made chemicals that can be risk factors for various conditions, including certain types of cancer. As a result, whenever tests show PFAS chemicals in food o...

Species are likely to die long before we have a chance to discover them. How can we ensure they're not lost forever?

Scientists have begun a new search for mysterious dark matter in a former gold mine a mile underground in Lead, South Dakota.      

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.

On Halloween, October 31st, 1985, photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron toted her trusty Hasselblad and tripod and arrived for a portrait session in downtown New York. Her subject was famous photographer and artist Ci...

Your Google account is one of the most important things on your devices, especially if you're a Gmail user. Here's a simple way to secure yours.      

There's far too much dust in the universe, compared with what our calculations predict.

A team from Ohio has found a way to harvest this waste and turn it into paint.

What an amazing find!

Snap has confirmed that outgoing Secret Service chief James Murray will join the company next month as its chief security officer.

Researchers at Penn State University have studied a new technique that could use a star's ability to focus and magnify communications which could be passing through our own solar system, and has been accepted for publica...

Thief Simulator, the beloved stealth sandbox game just came out on Oculus Quest.

This form of therapy can help you heal faster from an injury and get you stronger without the heavy weights.

Image: IO Interactive Hitman 3's new map, Ambrose Island, will arrive as free DLC to all players on July 26th, IO Interactive announced in its July roadmap. This marks the game's first new map since it launched last Janu...

Researchers assess whether using modern technologies such as neuromodulation and gene editing could provide "moral enhancement" and curb aggressive behaviors.

Targeting the GAT3 protein in the thalamus could help block and prevent long-term damage following brain injury.