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Viruses, including the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can get passed from person to person via contaminated surfaces. But can some surfaces reduce the risk of this type of transmission without the help of household disinfectants? Wood has natural antiviral properties that can reduce the time viruses persist on its surface -- and some species of wood are more effective than others at reducing infectivity.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and... Read more ›
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Refrigerators are a must-have kitchen appliance, we all know that. Some refrigerators say "Garage Ready" on them. What does this actually mean? Read more ›
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Follow our guide to live stream UFC 329 online and watch Conor McGregor vs Max Holloway 2 from anywhere. Read more ›
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It could go on sale in China in H2 2026, and the rest of the world should be annoyed it's not coming here. Read more ›
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Digital Extremes has wrapped up this year's Tennocon Live event with a massive reveal trailer for Warframe's next major update: Warframe: Tau. This update brings players to a Blade Runner and Sopranos-inspired locale, and tackles themes of addiction and its dangers head-on. Read more Read more ›
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Open Tools develops a repairable open source printer using Raspberry Pi hardware, challenging DRM restrictions while facing cartridge and production challenges. Read more ›
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Ключевой компонент игры Getting Over with Bennett Foddy — это молот главного персонажа. Именно с помощью этого приспособления игрок передвигается в окружающем пространстве и пытается взобраться на гору, а затем всё более абстрактную череду нагромождённых объектов. На днях разработчик в общих чертах объяснил принципы работы этой детали игры. Читать далее Read more ›
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Here's how to watch Argentina vs Switzerland for free online and from anywhere as Lionel Messi leads his side in this FIFA World Cup 2026 quarter-final. Read more ›
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The defending champs take on the Swiss in Kansas City for a place in the last four. Read more ›
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Warframe Tau might be Digital Extremes' version of Bungie's Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape. Read more ›
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The rise of AI threatens the arts just as much as any industry – with large language models able to generate all kinds of media Read more ›
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For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back? We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave us material for... Read more ›
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The traditional V6 layout is losing ground to a legendary, ultra-smooth engine configuration. Discover the four major brands leading the comeback. Read more ›
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China became the only other entity to recover an orbital rocket booster, but used a cable net on a ship instead of landing legs. Read more ›
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Digital Extremes has revealed a lenghty new gameplay trailer for its fantasy action game Soulframe. It's next major update - Warsong - adds a new quest. It'll also come with rideable mounts and "vegan" fishing. Read more Read more ›
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At the end of this month, Samsung’s attention will shift towards launching the new Galaxy Z foldables – you can already pre-reserve one here. We know that some of you don’t care for foldables, so let’s have a look at what’s going on with Samsung’s slab flagships. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is under $1,000 yet again. This isn’t the lowest price we’ve seen for the 12/256GB model, but it’s... Read more ›
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China seems to have solved one of the biggest logistics challenges of using larger drones across various environments by using trucks to form a launch system. Read more ›
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The next generation of Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Flip phones is likely just around the corner — here's everything we know about deals and pricing so far. Read more ›
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Some people live past 100 with remarkable health, and researchers may have uncovered one reason why. A new study found that centenarians have a unique chemical "fingerprint" in their blood that sets them apart from normal aging, including unusual patterns of bile acids and steroids linked to longer survival. Read more ›
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Researchers have proposed that black holes stop evaporating at the last moment, leaving behind tiny remnants that preserve all the information they contain. The same seven-dimensional geometry behind this idea could also help explain why elementary particles have mass. Read more ›
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Celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary, NASA released a stunning Hubble portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster with more than 500,000 stars. The remarkable cluster is helping scientists unravel the Milky Way's past thanks to its rare stars and possible origins in a long ago cosmic merger. Read more ›
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Hubble has captured a spectacular view of LH 95, where about 2,500 young stars are still on their journey to becoming full-fledged stars. Scientists discovered these growing stars can keep pulling in gas and dust for millions of years, extending an important stage of stellar development. The region also contains multiple generations of stars living side by side, offering fresh clues about how star formation unfolds over time. Read more ›
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient cluster are clues to how exploding stars helped transform the young universe into one capable of forming planets and, eventually, life. Read more ›
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Researchers have identified the brain circuitry that links deep sleep with the release of growth hormone, revealing how the two regulate each other. The newly discovered feedback loop helps explain why poor sleep can interfere with growth, muscle repair, fat metabolism, and brain function. Understanding this system could pave the way for new therapies for sleep disorders and diseases tied to metabolism and the brain, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Read more ›
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Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies. Now researchers are pushing its boundaries even further, with potential breakthroughs in energy, medicine, computing, and our understanding of the universe. Read more ›
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A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls scattered the bones across a cave floor 20,000 years ago. It's the first known evidence of bees nesting inside animal bones, revealing an astonishingly creative survival strategy. Read more ›
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Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so devastating. By drilling deeper into the seafloor than ever before, researchers discovered a thin, slippery layer of ancient clay that allowed the massive rupture to race all the way to the ocean floor, triggering enormous seafloor movement and a powerful tsunami. Read more ›
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Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of years ago. Evidence indicates the wolves were fed, possibly cared for, and may even have been managed or selectively bred long before modern ideas of domestication. Read more ›
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