Squirrels are all right. They’re better than your average rodent, and they jump around and stuff. But if you have a bird feeder, you might hate them. These animals just don’t get that some food is set aside for birds. They don’t respect boundaries, and they’re not above wrecking your […]
A New, Plastic-Busting Enzyme Can Break Down Water Bottles
Plastics have a lot of properties that have made them fixtures of modern societies. They can be molded into any shape we’d like, they’re tough yet flexible, and they come in enough variations that we can tune the chemistry to suit different needs. The problem is that they’re tough enough […]
Space Photos of the Week: The Super Pink Moon
This past week, much of the world was treated to a Super Pink Moon and if you were one of many who missed out due to clouds or rain, don’t worry! This gallery of other supermoon shots will make up for it. A supermoon is a full moon that happens […]
Farmworkers ‘Can’t Pick Strawberries Over Zoom’
“Right now their situation–their legal status, their access to benefits–creates the conditions in which these workers are going to have to choose between going to work and making a living so that they can pay for a house, food, and childcare for their children, or staying home and taking care […]
Anyone’s a Celebrity Streamer With This Open Source App
Live streaming is booming. People spent 1.2 billion hours watching Twitch in the first quarter of 2020, according to analytics company StreamHatchet and streaming software company Streamlabs. Time spent viewing the live-streaming service, a unit of Amazon, jumped 23 percent from February to March, and the number of unique Twitch […]