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Thousands evacuated as Hawk fire burns over 10,000 acres near Reno
51+ min ago (354+ words) Fueled by strong winds, the growing Hawk fire spread from the Sierra foothills threatening the northwest flank of Reno on Sunday morning, forcing thousands of evacuations. By 8 a.m., the blaze had covered at least 10,522 acres in the area north of Lake…...
Dangerous and Prolonged Heat Wave to Grip Southern States
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (407+ words) A prolonged and dangerous heat wave is set to grip parts of the Southern United States this week, as forecasters warned that temperatures are expected to soar into triple digits, with daily records at risk of being broken. The most…...
A California house painter taught himself about gibbons 50 years ago — and now his center is a world-leading rescue facility
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (915+ words) In between morning feedings, the gibbons begin to sing — loudly. Ranging from the sound of emergency sirens and birds screeching to low grunts and guttural hoots, their vocalizations reverberate from a sanctuary in the hot, dry hills of the Santa…...
Earth’s forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last climate shock — this one is moving 10 times faster
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (1170+ words) Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin. As global temperatures rose by…...
Amazon Delivery Drone Drops Package Directly Into Customer’s Swimming Pool
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (327+ words) A Texas woman ran outside to witness the future of delivery services. There, hovering above her property, was a large Amazon Prime Air drone that had just descended from the heavens to dispense her package. But in a video she…...
Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (1093+ words) Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing of a transformer and a transistor....
I created a viral AI watermark remover. I wasn’t ready for all the attention.
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (885+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to Anthropic’s AI watermark announcement. His words have been edited for…...
Your Skull Is Hiding a Secret Organ, and Scientists Just Found It
7+ hour, 42+ min ago (195+ words) Our organs are kind of hard to miss. But researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, publishing their findings in Nature, say they’ve found what amounts to a new immune organ inside our skulls. The researchers discovered…...
Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests
7+ hour, 42+ min ago (1219+ words) On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 1,700 acres into brown, bare shrubland. That forest is gone for good,…...
7 Basic iPhone Tricks I Built With iOS 27’s Revamped Shortcuts App
8+ hour, 38+ min ago (264+ words) When iOS 27 lands this fall, Siri AI might be the most tangible change for many users, with its improved capabilities and stand-alone app. Even so, Apple Intelligence integration into the Shortcuts app has me humming “Zero to Hero” from Disney’s…...