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Photo: Getty Girl Scouts can start earning cybersecurity badges next year, thanks to an effort by the Girl Scouts of America and cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks. The youth organization came up with the idea simply by asking Scouts what they want. And the girls want to hack. “We surveyed a lot of girls,” Girl…

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Uranus is the loneliest thing in the solar system. It hasn’t had contact with anyone in over 30 years, since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft whizzed by it on January 24th, 1986. Thankfully, some good folks at NASA and elsewhere are advocating for missions to Uranus and its Ice Giant companion, Neptune, which could…

Artist rendering of LISA (Image: ESA-C Carreau) It took around a hundred years between Albert Einstein crafting his theory of general relativity and the confirmation of one of its wildest predictions, gravitational waves. So naturally, folks have been especially skeptical about funding expensive projects to look harder for them. But now that experiments are actually…

The BeatsX earbud, no weird attachments required. The units we ended up testing needed strong marks in three categories: sound quality, comfort, and convenience. Because our main goal was to find the best wireless earbuds for an active lifestyle, we ruled out almost all of the neckband contenders as well as the completely wireless earbuds…

Image: PAP/ Wojciech Pacewicz Late last month, an excavator operator was working at a peat bog in the Polish municipality of Mircze when he accidentally stumbled upon this glorious specimen of 14th century craftsmanship. The remarkably well-preserved longsword is a unique find for the area, and its discovery has prompted an archaeological expedition. The discoverer…

Image Courtesy of Rob Zugaro Octopuses are up to something. Cephalopods—the class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong—are some of the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and they know it. These squishy geniuses are masterful escape artists and like to mess with humans by shooting water at aquarium light switches and…

LONDON – Survivors of the deadly fire in the Grenfell tower in London to get new homes assigned. The government made Wednesday follow the BBC known 68 apartments have been purchased in a complex with luxewoningen. According to the British broadcasting costs the cheapest property for sale in the complex of 1.5 million pounds (about…

JERUSALEM – The son-in-law of the American president Donald Trump on Wednesday in Israel met with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jared Kushner brings in the evening in Ramallah to visit the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. The visit is intended to discuss the peace process. The 36-year-old Kushner, a real estate developer with little diplomatic experience,…

BRUSSELS – Almost four in ten Belgian doctors have in recent years become a victim of aggression and violence by patients. Viewed over their entire career at nearly 85 percent. Female and young physicians are relatively more often the target. Research of the Free University of Brussels has shown. In most cases, the verbal and…