What to Do (and Not Do) When Your Sunburn Starts Peeling
A sunburn that’s severe enough to peel is a sign that you fucked up—you should have worn sunscreen, or reapplied it after swimming, or made sure somebody helped you get…
Social Media Is Wrong About Microwaves
Photo: goffkein.pro (Shutterstock) Microwaves are convenient. Too convenient, perhaps. So convenient that some of us are suspicious of them. When these common appliances were new on the kitchen scene, there…
How to Protect Your Vehicle From Sun and Heat Damage
Photo: LeManna (Shutterstock) You know you need sunscreen and layers to protect you from the sun, lest you get a bad sunburn. It stands to reason that if UV rays…
Watch: Amateur Photographer Records “Unusual” Solar Storm On Surface of Sun
Why the storm recorded in video is so static is still unclear.A solar storm that reaches as far out from the Sun as four entire Earths was discovered by telescope…
How to Tint the Windows in Your Home (and Why You Might Want To)
Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) When you hear “tinted windows,” you probably think first of cars—and the various degrees to which you can tint their windows within (or outside of) the…
Our Kids Aren’t Wearing Enough Sunscreen
Photo: lazaridi.nata (Shutterstock) The tricky thing about sunscreen is that, if applied properly, it’s invisible. So how can we tell when enough of an invisible thing is enough? In general,…
How to Choose a Sweat-Resistant Sunscreen
Photo: Jacob Lund (Shutterstock) Sunscreen is essential for outdoor summer workouts, but there are few grosser feelings in life than when your sweat turns your forehead into a slip’n’slide and…
Quantum computers may be destroyed by high-energy particles from space
Inside a quantum computer at IBMIBM Research Radiation from space could be a big problem for quantum computers, because cosmic rays can disturb their fragile inner workings and limit the…
Secret to tardigrades’ toughness revealed by supercomputer simulation
By Rowan Hooper Tardigrades are extraordinarily robustSTEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The most resilient animal known to science – the tardigrade – is yielding its secrets, with the first work at…
Fukushima surfers return nearly a decade after the nuclear disaster
While keen surfers take to the waves around Fukushima, plans are under way to dump contaminated water from the damaged nuclear power plant into the sea Humans 19 August 2020…