Category: Weird

Human olfactory receptors belong to an enormous family of proteins known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Situated within cell membranes, these proteins contribute to a vast…

Wearable breast pumps are fantastically convenient for any pumping parent, but my biggest problem with them is how expensive they are. The price point can…

Double strollers hold double the children—in other words, these fit two kids. They have a higher weight limit, around 100 pounds, to hold two little…

The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for billions of users, you can…

The first time we speak, Joep Meindertsma is not in a good place. He tears up as he describes a conversation in which he warned…

Trail running has been growing in popularity for years, with a boom during the pandemic seen on trails all over the world. Trail running shoes…

Have you ever swapped out an old iPhone battery for a new one? Probably not, because it’s difficult and frustrating and expensive to do. But…

Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability that enabled malicious code execution…

Sure, you can find more powerful handsets in the rest of the world for the same amount of cash, but we’re not as lucky in…

This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the Fram Strait off Greenland’s west coast, Véronique Merten…