Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images The first year or so that I had a Chase checking account, I was paying $25 per month because I didn’t maintain their preferred average daily balance. All it took to solve this was a…
Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Lifehacker/GMG, photos via Getty Images So you’re ready to buy some cryptocurrency. Maybe you’ve been reading up on blockchain technology and you’re convinced it really is the future. Or maybe you watched a friend get rich…
Shutterstock / nehophoto Don’t feel like a millennial? The term Gen-X doesn’t apply to you either? You’re not alone. In 2014, Sarah Stankorb in Good Magazine coined a term for the ‘micro generation’ of people born between 1977 and 1985,…
Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute of Science explains why you shouldn’t rely on counting calories. Following is a transcript of the video. Eran Segal: If you take in less energy than you take out, then you will lose weight.…
Shutterstock Africa’s Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world, with size comparable to the area of the United States. Most of the desert experiences bright, hot sunshine 82% of the day and can…
Like a number of coastal areas around the world, the United Arab Emirates is becoming increasingly vulnerable to sea level rise. According to a 2017 study from the Emirates Wildlife Society and World Wildlife Fund, researchers expect ocean levels to rise around…
Ingestible technology — the stalwart theme of medical sci-fi — has been in the works for decades, but now researchers are closer than ever before to taking it mainstream thanks to successful trials of gas-sensing capsules. The swallowable sensors, designed…
A new analysis of 14 studies comprising 50,000 people may provide the best evidence yet that personality is not fixed through life. Subjects in the US and throughout Europe showed considerable changes in their personalities as they aged. Many of…
Designed by Italian architect Renato Vidal, the MADI home can be built in six to seven hours with the help of a crane and a three-person construction crew. The pre-fabricated, earthquake-resistant home could come in handy for disaster situations. Prices range…
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