Researchers have developed a method to break down PET, one of the world’s most widely used plastics, for sustainable recycling using mechanical forces instead of heat or harsh chemicals. The high ...

Placing unripe avocados in a paper bag with fruit that gives off ethylene gas ripens them the fastest. Using a ripe banana edged out an apple by two days, but either method works. Heating avocados ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

A Texas father’s approach to teaching his identical quadruplet girls their names is going viral on the internet. Jonathan Sandhu, 38, posted a reel on Instagram (@thesandhucrew) where his ...

LOS ANGELES — Victor Wembanyama is doing something wrong. The 7-foot-4 unicorn, still in the early stages of rewriting how basketball is played, just made a move few in the world can. But it’s the ...

Alzheimer's disease is marked by the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, but most ways of studying these deposits in mouse models require sacrificing the animals. That limits researchers' ability ...

Speed demons know pulling out as a merging strategy, while politicians use it synonymously with dropping out. But in the sexicon—yes, that’s sex lexicon—pulling out refers to an 'effective' birth ...

Baking potatoes directly on a sheet pan in a 425°F oven produced the test kitchen’s favorite results, with light and fluffy interiors and perfectly crisp, flavorful skin. Unlike foil-wrapped potatoes, ...

University of Maine researchers developed a new process to make HBL, a key ingredient in many medicines, from renewable glucose instead of petroleum. The approach not only lowers drug production costs ...

There’s a new buzzy fashion startup in town. Meet Phia, the shopping app founded by Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates and her Stanford roommate-slash-co-founder, Sophia Kianni. Phia searches the web ...

Did you know you can customize Google to filter out garbage? Take these steps for better search results, including adding Lifehacker as a preferred source for tech news. You may have heard of the ...