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Control D is the simple to use, one-touch program that combines a ton of cybersecurity essentials into one easy-to-use platform that protects you from malicious internet programs and keeps your kids from seeing inappropriate content. Able to cover up to 10 devices including desktops, tablets, and mobile devices, D-Control will make sure that your online browsing stays private, ad-free, and safe. You’ll be able to customize each device’s profile to allow different filters on your kid’s tablet, your smartphone, and the family desktop so that you won’t need to worry about switching profiles every single time....

$10 and Under The adult coloring book trend may be winding down, but that doesn’t make the activity any less therapeutic. Help your peers de-stress and relive their childhood, with the addition of some ahem colorful language. $5. Give your coworker the “just voted” self-satisfaction every day of the year with a sticker set themed around accomplishing the basics of being alive. Sometimes it’s nice to be recognized for your accomplishments, even if they’re as small as paying your bills on time....

Only relatively recently in human history have UFO sightings and alien folklore become more mainstream. Research shows this kind of “pseudoarchaeology” is catching on across the internet—just as modern technology lets more people collect photos, share videos, and share reports of bizarre data, providing more fodder for speculations and even government probes. But for scientists and military professionals who assemble this evidence and throw their hats in with true believers, there’s a huge stigma behind bringing up aliens and UFOs in serious discussions....

Planetary scientists have traditionally viewed Venus’s hellish temperatures, carbon dioxide-saturated atmosphere, and congealed crust as the inevitable outcome of its place in the solar system. Sitting too close to the sun, the hapless planet was doomed from birth to be burnt to a crisp. In recent years, however, an alternative possibility has thrown some shade at this simple story. Given the right starting conditions, cloud cover could have protected Venus from the barrage of sunlight and kept it balmy and wet for billions of years, according to simulations presented this week at a planetary science conference in Switzerland....

The idea, of course, was to question our understanding of what is alive and what our responsibility is “towards the living systems that we engage in manipulating,” says one of the artists, Oron Catts. Catts is the director of a group called SymbioticA, that operates out of the University of Western Australia. They are an interdisciplinary artistic laboratory at the school that aims to present scientific research through artistic inquiry....

The deceptively simple chart progresses from the decidedly not-human (a factory robot, for instance) to something that would be indistinguishable from ourselves (whether it’s a perfect computer graphic or these guys). One might guess that as the objects in questions become more human, they become more familiar to us, and so it goes. Until, that is, we hit the uncanny valley. Once the robot or graphic or toy or not-quite human creature becomes too human like (and yet not human like enough to be indistinguishable), we can’t handle it....

So just how big is big? Growers in various states have set various records—New Jersey was home to a 6-pound, 2.5-ounce tomato, Oklahoma has boasted a 7-pound, 12-ounce one, and Minnesota weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Dan Sutherland of Walla Walla, Washington is the current tomato king, having produced a tomato tipping the scale at 8 pounds, 9 ounces in 2016....

The exercise was a clean execution of technique, the kind of demonstration sailors train for. What set apart this particular demonstration is that every part of it, from the robot ship to the drone flight to the missile’s navigation, was done autonomously. Humans set this in motion, but it was machines that carried it out. The demonstration was part of a NATO exercise called Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmanned Systems, or REPMUS....

Watch the roundtable below: What’s fascinating about the roundtable isn’t so much the reverence for Jobs, but they way these artists and writers see in Jobs’ talent something of themselves. They describe him in painterly terms; it’s no accident that when looking for a similar visionary, Leonardo da Vinci’s name comes up, as do Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. It’s a fascinating moment, not just because of the person of Jobs, but because these people are aware of the myth-making process as they proceed to make a myth themselves....

It was a watery success! In ideal use, the capsule will deploy parachutes and gently land safely on, well, land. But the conditions for returning from space aren’t always ideal, so it’s important to make sure that an oceanic landing works too. The Langley facility is also NASA’s foremost testing ground for hurtling otherwise-fine flying machines at the ground to study how they’ll break. Last summer at Langley, NASA crashed airplanes to see where they should put emergency beacons on them so they’ll be most effective after a wreck....

The animal-like robots are distinguished by their very small size. The smallest ones are as wide as a human hair, and the larger ones are slightly smaller than a flea. They’re also available also as a scrunching inchworm, a spring-coiling cricket, and in other forms too. So why create them? “There’s quite a bit of interest these days in tiny robots—small-scale structures that can be controlled remotely for various purposes....

In the video captured from the deck of the derelict ship Courageous, the bomb hits as a plume of water and smoke, with the camera’s angle jolted skyward as the now-halved vessel splits and sinks. The footage, released September 19, offers a more complete picture of an Air Force Research Lab weapons test, which originally took place on April 28. Previous footage showed the ship sinking, from the sky. Now, with the footage from the onboard camera recovered, it is possible to see what would be a sailor’s eye view of the destruction, before the falling bomb permanently condemns them to what would be a long stay in Davy Jone’s locker....

As we reported earlier, Horie aimed to make the 4,350-mile cross-Pacific trip in 60 days, about 50 days longer than it would take him in a diesel-powered craft—but infinitely more eco friendly. Instead, the [ 111 days, owing to an unusually long stretch of good weather and flat seas. Traveling an average of 1.5 knots, 69-year-old Horie certainly didn’t set any speed records but he did set one for the longest ocean voyage made in a wave-powered craft, proving along the way that a fossil-fuel-free propulsion system can work, albeit leisurely, under real-world maritime conditions....

We were at the end of an almost two-month expedition to conduct a hugely ambitious scientific survey of the 29,000 foot Mount Everest. I am a climate scientist who specializes in extreme environments, and together with Baker Perry (a geographer at Appalachian State University), I was trying to install the highest weather station in the world. Weeks of sickness had plagued the expedition (from diarrhea to full-on Influenza-A), but we had so far succeeded....

Break the ice with a science joke Maybe you don’t need an evasive conversational maneuver—maybe you just need help getting comfortable with relatives you haven’t seen since last holiday season. Even the most elemental of science jokes will surely garner a few laughs. HeHe. Why do we cringe when other people do embarrassing things? If it doesn’t feel too close to home after watching your cousin put his foot in his mouth at the dinner table, our recent story on secondhand humiliation explains why feeling embarrassment on someone else’s behalf—even if they don’t feel awkward themselves—is actually a sign of empathy....

“This year we saw surprising results, and they’re really exciting, ” says Isis Howard, an endangered species conservation biologist with the Xerces Society, which helps to lead the count. “Everyone is feeling hopeful, but what we’re trying to convey is cautious optimism.” But as these orange, black, and white patterned butterflies show hints of recovery out West, entomologists raise questions about the ever-worsening fate of the species’ Eastern counterparts. Since 1997, Western monarchs have declined by more than 95 percent....

“Your average car faces several major problems on the moon,” says Brian Wilcox, who heads the development of NASA’s new manned rover, called Athlete [see NASA’s Gilded Chariot]. Chief among those is the small matter of combustion. There’s no oxygen on the moon, so your engine can’t burn fuel to generate power. In addition, your rubber tires would crack or melt on the surface, where temperatures range from that of liquid nitrogen to boiling water....

Unlike previous doses, the new booster is a bivalent vaccine which includes an updated formula containing the mRNA of the original SARS-CoV-2 strain to broadly protect against COVID-19 infection, as well as the mRNA of the more recent Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants. As of September, the BA.5 variant is currently the dominant variant circulating in the United States, making up 88.6 percent of cases. Infectious disease experts are bracing for another surge of cases in the fall and winter, but they are cautiously optimistic that the new COVID-19 boosters will provide immunity against severe disease and illness....

This monthly calendar has plenty of space under each day for daily tasks and notes. It’s magnetic, making it easy to stick to and remove from your fridge or wall, and includes six markers with magnetic caps. This set comes with a bonus grocery list. It measures 17 inches x 13 inches and comes in either a horizontal or vertical format. This monthly whiteboard calendar is ideal to hang in a hallway or above your desk....

Her gardening technique, she says, dispels the myth that healthy food requires prodigious sunshine and acres of land. Anker grows her greens in purple light that plants absorb more efficiently than sunlight. “You, in your small dark apartment, can grow fresh vegetables,” says Anker. All her setup requires are crates and plant dishes from a plant nursery, red and blue LED strips, seed packets, and soil. The 31 crates in the installation cost less than $100 each....