On Thursday, NASA is expected to launch its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a mission to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. It’s the agency’s largest and most autonomous Martian explorer yet. It’s also the first to be powered entirely with American plutonium.At the heart of Perseverance is a small “nuclear…
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more.Whether you love or hate them, Fujifilm’s APS-C-based mirrorless cameras produce images you can’t get anywhere else. More than sensor size, autofocus speed, or any other feature, this is a mark of a great camera. It’s why I’m always excited…
SUPPORT REQUEST :From : [ 508 ] LOOP DETECTEDFor longer than I care to admit, I have opted to delay updating my phone’s OS. This is a daily process in which I’m asked if I want to update now or later, and each day I choose “later,” fully aware that I have no intention of…
Quiet, peaceful, clean, and free of viruses. That’s what home should be. But refuges, especially when you’re spending all your time in them, get dirty, oppressive, and stressful. Working and socializing from home is a lot more enjoyable when the air is pure, the herbs for tomorrow’s dinner are growing in the kitchen, and you…
Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires: The pictures show a jostling crowd of adults and young people, shirtless and in swimsuits, standing on a subtropical beachfront. A thin band of staticky ocean behind them. Most are men and boys. People wince in the hard light. One or two toddlers, lofted onto shoulders, clutch fistfuls of sweat-wetted hair.…
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s new normal is less normal than anyone’s during this year of the coronavirus. As the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—and perhaps the most widely trusted voice on the White House Coronavirus Task Force—he has been revered and reviled, sometimes by his own boss, President Donald Trump, the…
On Monday, a new coronavirus disinformation video exploded across the internet. Created by the right-wing site Breitbart, it was a clip of a press conference from a group calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors containing dangerously false claims about the coronavirus, including that masks are useless and that chloroquine cures the disease. (There is no known…
The Portland, Oregon, protests are a block party at the end of the world. Lownsdale Square Park, a treed, grassy downtown plaza flanked by courthouses, is showing signs of wear after hosting continuous protests for the past two months. The lawn has been tread to dust, and tear gas and pepper spray cling to it.…
This is the strange saga of how scientists went to some of the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, dug 250 feet down into the sediment, collected an ancient community of microbes, brought them back to a lab, and revived them. And you’re going to think: Why, in the already-horrible year of 2020, would they…
Yamaha has finally pulled the veil off its new Yamaha YDX MORO electric mountain bike line. The new models feature Yamaha’s latest mid-drive e-bike motor and a brand new frame design unlike anything we’ve seen before. The Yamaha YDX MORO electric mountain bike line show off Yamaha’s new patent-pending dual-twin frame design that features a…
