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Today, YouTube announced YouTube Red, a subscription plan that eliminates advertisements and offers additional premium content from the site’s biggest stars, like PewDiePie. Since ads were previously the main way YouTube made any revenue, this is a huge shift in business models. YouTube Red will cost $9.99 per month on desktop, mobile web and Android, but users on iOS will have to fork over an additional $3 per month, with a $12....

It appears on some levels that big corporations are getting their act together, making net-zero promises and other sustainability pledges. But when held up to the light, these claims appear to be falling quite short. Twenty-five of the world’s largest companies are in reality committing to reducing their carbon footprint by an average of 40 percent, not 100 percent or going completely “carbon neutral” as they may imply according to new analysis by NewClimate Institute, in collaboration with Carbon Market Watch....

In this article, we review some of today’s top CBD oil brands. We look for quality, consistency, and organically-grown hemp to bring you only the best oils on the market. Here are today’s top 10 CBD oils. Verma Farms is one of the nation’s top providers of all-natural, high-quality hemp oil. Both Forbes and Entrpreneur.com rate Verma Farms’ CBD oils as their number one choices. With only premium ingredients, you can’t beat the taste, quality, and potency of Verma’s signature CBD oil....

1. Procreate We could do a whole feature just on digital art apps for the iPad Pro. Out of all of these options, Procreate wins for its breadth of features and intuitive interface. The app offers a wealth of advanced tools—well over 100 different brush and pen types, with more than 50 different customizations available on each one. These help you create some seriously brilliant results, from basic digital sketches to advanced computer-generated artwork....

Fortunately, you don’t need a big telescope to find these celestial objects—the eerily beautiful galaxies, mysterious nebulae, and brilliant star clusters that Messier, and other astronomers, made note of. Pack up your binoculars, or a telescope such as the Celestron Popular Science Travel Scope 70, seek out a patch of dark sky, and take your hunt of the heavens to the next level spotting these celestial wonders. Albireo To the naked eye, Albireo looks like a single star, but high-powered binoculars or a small telescope, such as the Celestron Popular Science StarSense Explorer DX 100AZ, will reveal that it’s a colorful pair....

We know how long it takes you to poop Okay, so we don’t know exactly how long a bowel movement takes you. But there’s less variation in this than you might think—even between different species. An elephant’s rectum is about 10 times longer than a cat’s, yet they poop in the same amount of time. Learn how much your bathroom habits have in common with the rest of the mammalian world....

We’re big fans of the all-grilled meal, charring everything from steaks to desserts to even cocktails. Once you have those coals going, why not take full advantage of them? To that end, meet the grilled salad, the best way to add a smoky, savory edge to summer side dishes. These easy salad recipes will keep you going all summer long, but for further reading, be sure to check out all our essential grilling recipes....

In some cases, though, words do exist to describe those nameless emotions–they’re just not English words. Which is a shame, because–as today’s infographic by design student Pei-Ying Lin demonstrates, they often define a feeling entirely familiar to us. Lin solicited the list of “unspeakable” words from colleagues at London’s Royal College of Art, and found that their definitions in English usually came down to something like, “it is a kind of (emotion A), close to (emotion B), and somehow between (emotion C) and (emotion D)....

Here’s how it works. The replacement tooth is designed to match the gap in the person’s mouth. A resin, made of safe materials combined with a special salt, is then printed into the shape of the tooth and then placed like a normal replacement into the person’s mouth. The positive charge in the salts in the resin bursts negatively-charged bacterial membranes, leaving only dead colonies where once were festering feeding frenzies of microbial intruders....

While coffee pods may have that nifty recycling symbol on them, in reality, breaking them down to a recyclable state takes a lot more effort than it seems. First, you’ve got to let the pod cool down, then peel the tricky foil on top and scoop the grounds into the trash or compost. The next step requires digging beneath any remaining grounds to remove a paper filter attached to the pod before you rinse out the plastic....

2. COUCH PILOTS In Mars Rover Landing, a free downloadable game for the Xbox 360, Curiosity‘s fate rests in the hands of players. Wannabe pilots control the craft’s speed and angle of descent by moving their bodies in front of Kinect’s motion sensor. Guiding the rover through its “seven minutes of terror” landing sequence is fun and, not surprisingly, tricky. 3. TIMEKEEPER Oliver Blake, a flight operations engineer for the British-led Beagle 2 Mars probe, wanted to watch the sun rise over Mars right along with the Curiosity rover....

If you still feel nervous about aging, know that prevention is key, and the decisions you make today can help you stay wrinkle-free for longer. Why we get wrinkles As we age, two major things happen to our skin. First, it gradually loses its ability to retain moisture, making it drier than it was in your teens. But that’s not all—older people just can’t produce the same amount of collagen as youngsters....

Map apps have so thoroughly transformed the way we travel that it’s hard to imagine getting around without the assistance of our smartphones. With more than a billion people worldwide using Google Maps every month, the mapping app has become, by far, the most popular, both in its desktop and mobile versions. But as simple as it may be, Google Maps packs plenty of hidden features you can play around with....

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Jump ropes are more complex than you may realize. They range from the classic, nostalgia-inducing beaded ropes of playgrounds, to speed ropes equipped with a light, thin metal wire that can cost north of $100. The pandemic has forced so many people to revaluate how they work out, but a good rope will allow you to exercise within whatever space you have available. All you need is a park or backyard where you can fling one around, sweat buckets, and gasp for breath like a champion....

In a research article published this week in the Journal for the History of Astronomy, astronomy historian James Evans calls the discovery of the possible map on a preserved piece of medieval parchment that was originally housed at a Greek Orthodox monastery “rare” and “remarkable”. Hipparchus lived from 190 to 120 BCE and is considered to be the father of trigonometry. He also discovered the precession of the equinoxes, or when the Earth wobbles on axis of rotation due to the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun on Earth’s equatorial bulge....

With this method, the object prints while floating in midair thanks to magnets or acoustic waves. A “nugget” or base gets printed first out into space, and then a cadre of 3D printers add more and more of the printing material. But why? Levitation is cool, yes, but it turns out there is also a practical purpose for a floating 3D printed object, at least according to Boeing’s patent. The levitating object can be manipulated and turned more so than an object stuck to a platform can be, and using many printheads at the same time would ostensibly speed up the process....

Astronomers have been interested in GRBs since the first one was spotted in 1967. But there’s still much to understand about exactly what goes on when two neutron stars collide. New research, recently published in the journal Nature, reveals helpful signals known as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in old observations of GRBs. QPOs provide a window for scientists to explore the brief time after the neutron stars collide but before they’ve collapsed into a black hole....

Mercedes-Benz has developed the world’s first production car with what’s called SAE Level 3 driver assistance, and will deliver these vehicles to US customers later this year. Popular Science had the chance to ride along in a Mercedes EQS EV equipped with what the company calls Drive Pilot as it slogged through Los Angeles freeway traffic. The car’s ability to negotiate its way between trucks, give space to merging traffic ahead, and tolerate lane-splitting motorcycles that zoomed past was a marvel....

The precise observations of ACT and Planck come after more than a millennium of humans watching the sky and pondering where it all could have come from. Somehow, primates with lifespans of less than a century got a handle on events that took place eons before their planet—and even the atoms that would form their planet—existed. Here’s a brief account of how humanity came around to figure out how old the universe is....