Here's All the Gear You Need to Start Climbing

You don't need a lot, nor do you need to spend a ton. From harnesses to carabiners, here are our favorites.

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How Far Away From Perseverance Did the Descent Stage Land?

The rocket lowered the rover onto the surface of Mars before it shot away from the landing site. So where did it end up?

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The Pandemic Nearly Shuttered My Church. Technology Saved It

From engaging audiences to building bridges, tech has helped my small, rural faith community weather the storm. Here's how it might help yours too.

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TikTok Played a Key Role in MAGA Radicalization

The platform's absorbing endless scroll and karaoke features have built an overlooked disinformation machine.

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Help! I’m Sneaking Into My Office. Is This So Wrong?

In this week’s Out of Office column, Megan tackles guilt, bad policies, and the rules of zoomfood.

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If You Transplant a Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow?

In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon’s mission to preserve the soul.

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Soak in Your Own Sweat Inside a Heated Sauna Blanket

MiHigh's portable infrared sauna is warm, wet, and weird.

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Who Is R. A. Lafferty? And Is He the Best Sci-Fi Writer Ever?

You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.

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Fake News Gets More Engagement on Facebook—If It’s Right-Wing

Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interactions by far compared to other news sources, new research shows.

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Anthony Fauci Pleads: Don’t Declare Victory

The Covidologist-in-chief says we can’t relax on masks and social distancing yet. Hear that, Texas?

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Should Anyone Actually Care About Ray Tracing?

What was supposed to be all the rage in graphics quickly turned into a meme. But will it actually improve your gaming experience?

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Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written By You

Here's this month's prompt, how to submit, and an illustrated archive of past favorites.

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Twitch's First Transparency Report Is Here—and Long Overdue

The decade-old streaming platform has for the first time detailed its efforts to safeguard its user base in one place.

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Strap on a HoloLens and Step Into the AR Conference Room

Microsoft’s new Mesh software platform helps faraway coworkers meet up and interact in mixed reality. The results are, well, still mixed.

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Sleuths Read Old Booby-Trapped Letters Without Opening Them

People once folded their correspondence in intricate ways, known as “letterlocking,” to keep out snoops. A fancy new imaging technique sees right through it.

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The ‘Girl Games’ of the ’90s Were Fun and Feminist

Here’s a look back at some of the earliest games for girls—and the role women played in the game industry’s early days.

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Microsoft's Dream of Decentralized IDs Enters the Real World

The company will launch a public preview of its identification platform this spring—and has already tested it at the UK's National Health Service.

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Vaccine Passports Can Help the US Reopen—or Further Divide Us

Overly restrictive “yellow cards” could end up disproportionately excluding Black and Latinx citizens from jobs, schools, or even the neighborhood market.

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What Do TV’s Race Fantasies Actually Want to Say?

Shows like Bridgerton and Hollywood alter the past in the name of inclusion. It would benefit us more to write the world as it was, as it is.

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How #BringBackOurGirls Became an International Rallying Cry

In 2014, more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped. It hardly made global headlines—until a Twitter hashtag took off.

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