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Cybex’s car seat can rotate 360 degrees, track the temperature, and alert you if you leave your kiddo in the car.

The ARChive of Contemporary Music has one of the largest collections of vinyl records in the world and is in danger of losing its home. Its champions are making a case for the future of physical media.

Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.

Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.

CES kicks off next week with new gadgets galore, but now’s your chance to grab some great discounts on last year’s still-great tech.

Scientists are finding a dynamic story in human physiology linked to frigid temperatures—a story that climate change may rewrite.

It has a lot to do with mystery, defeating AI, and wanting to believe amazing achievements are still possible.

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.

Up and down the Atlantic Coast, the land is steadily sinking, or subsiding. That’s destabilizing levees, roads, and airports, just as sea levels are rising.

Being fully anonymous is next to impossible—but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules.

Ibogaine, a plant-based psychoactive drug, drastically reduced symptoms of depression and PTSD in veterans with traumatic brain injuries.

Ukraine’s top general says his country must innovate on the level of inventing gunpowder to “break military parity” with Russia. If it’s successful, it could change the future of war.

Boston Dynamic's legged robots won the internet by doing parkour and dancing to classic R&B. The company's founder Marc Raibert now leads an institute trying to make the machines more independent.

Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It’s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy.

This pint-size Bluetooth speaker is a solid shower buddy, but you can get better sound for a bit more cash.

This week, we talk about a new study that shows a sharp rise in orders for abortion pills by women who aren’t pregnant yet. This comes at a time when abortion access in the US is under threat.

The city of Austin asked Cruise to idle its robotaxis on Halloween due to safety concerns. The request shows how cities barred by state law from regulating driverless cars must resort to diplomacy.

Forget the crappy caregiver bots and puppy-eyed seals. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.

Don’t drop the ball on your health. There are plenty of discounted fitness trackers, including the latest Apple Watch.