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Space Force schedules the next mission for its secret robot plane

It’s unclear how long OTV-8 will last, but if past missions are any indication, the unpiloted plane will remain above the ...

How Audi tweaked its turbo geometry

Vented turbo technology has been around in different forms for a long time, but Audi just upped the ante. Audi’s A5 sedan and ...

The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers

After NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift Observatory spotted the BOAT, , an international team of astronomers ...

Research on Dungeons and Dragons is booming—and it seems like it’s great for your brain

On this week’s episode of The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, I covered a couple mini-facts—one of which is that tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons seem to be really good for ...

I made my inner child proud in the coolest way possible

These night-vision binoculars lead a double life as a video recorder, so if you catch sight of anything interesting, snap a ...

Your iPhone just became a scanner, editor, and document wizard for life

It handles everything from digitizing contracts and receipts to scanning IDs and solving math problems—all from your phone or ...