Anker 757 Portable Power Station $979.99 (Was $1,399.99) If your camping trips involve coffee and grilling or you just want to make sure you have backup for your home during the next storm, you can rely on the Anker 757 Portable Power Station. With LiFePO4 batteries that last up to six times longer than the lithium ion batteries, its USB-C port provides 100 watts of power, The Anker 757 comes with six AC ports, four USB-A ports, two USB-C ports, and a car outlet to keep a range of devices topped up....

Why companies continue to pay for using them, you ask? It’s because they’re the most accessible. Most don’t know where to really look, so they end up using images that barely communicate the true essence of their brand. But with how saturated the internet is today, using cheesy stock photos would be doing your organization a disservice. People connect more to diverse and authentic images, which you can get from sites like Scopio....

Until May 27, you can snag a pair of MH40 wired headphones from Master & Dynamic for $199 (they usually go for $249). Just use the code MEMORIAL19 at checkout to get the deal. Their MH40 headphones are stylish, comfortable, and produce top-notch sound. They have 45mm Neodymium drivers, removable lambskin and memory foam ear-pads, and can fold flat so they don’t take up much room in your bag while you travel to and from work....

Exactly what enables the San Francisco Giants phenom to defy logic was the focus of a recent Sports Illustrated article. In short, the Freak relies on a different set of biomechanics. His motion is smooth, without any hitches. His left side remains pointed at the target for as long as possible. His follow-through is long and low. His stride length on the mound is 130 percent of his height, while most pitchers’ are just 72-90 percent....

Published in Science Translational Medicine, the study by a multidisciplinary group of University of Pennsylvania researchers supports a goal that some on the team have been pursuing for over a decade: figuring out how to replace damaged intervertebral discs with ones grown in the laboratory using the patient’s own stem cells. “Every time you take a step or move your neck or lift something, it puts pressure on your discs,” says says study author Robert Mauck, who runs an orthopedic research lab at the University of Pennsylvania....

“Unless an alien civilization is doing experiments like these right now, anytime this experiment is running at Kyoto University it is making the coldest fermions in the universe,” said Rice University professor Kaden Hazzard, corresponding theory author of the study, and member of the Rice Quantum Initiative, in a press release. “Fermions are not rare particles. They include things like electrons and are one of two types of particles that all matter is made of....

The Food & Drug Administration regulates all products defined as food to ensure they’re safe for human consumption. Coffee drinks and soda, for instance, aren’t allowed to be too high in caffeine lest they cause heart problems. But energy drinks are classified as supplements, which means they’re unregulated—and manufacturers are free to shove as much caffeine inside a single can as they please. They can even mix caffeine with other stimulants in such a way that could cause cardiovascular or nervous system problems....

The very bottom layer of this “dip” is unevenly concentrated at one end of the ocean basin, near Antarctica. This layer of water is known, fittingly, as bottom water. It forms near the surface, as Antarctica’s ice shelves freeze in the winter. The water that freezes pushes out many salt particles, shoving them deeper into the ocean, making the water below the ice shelf denser and saltier. This cold, salty water sinks to the bottom of the Southern Ocean, falling into the abyss in underwater waterfalls....

The Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar’s design Accommodating all those speakers (two firing upward and 11 outward), and the 500 watts of power to drive them, requires considerable size and weight. At almost 41 pounds, 50 inches wide, and more than 5 inches tall (including the rubber feet), the AMBEO is considerably larger than the average soundbar. On the same tabletop as the TV, the Sennheiser soundbar may block a portion of your screen, unless the TV is mounted upon a wall or has a height-adjustable stand....

With careful consideration, we must ask ourselves what sort of items we should take that will help us in outdoor adventure. One thing is for certain. Creating adequate shelter is a must-have in austere conditions. There are dozens of items and ways to build a shelter effectively. One thing that makes life much easier is a good tarp setup. Some are simple, and some are more technical. We will break this down, so you know how to be a shelter-building boss....

Overnight on January 4, a powerful bomb cyclone hit the northern California coast with hurricane force winds and a forecasted two to four inches rain, possibly more than six in some spots. This region is still drying out from another storm last week. It’s the latest in a series of storms brought in by an atmospheric river, or dense moisture from over the ocean that’s brought to land an airborne current....

High-profile cases like Seau’s have raised public awareness of CTE in the NFL in recent years. And rather than a rarity, researchers are concerned the disease might be more widespread than previously believed. Boston University’s CTE Center has been analyzing the brains of deceased athletes and veterans since 2008; the condition has shown up in 175 of the 247 brains studied. Among deceased NFL players, it’s 88 of 92. Currently, the disease can’t be treated....

And while being able to capture our own image as we’d like to be seen is a great thing, it sometimes makes a person’s lack of photographic know-how way more evident. Everyone wants to look their best, but not everyone has the skills to make themselves look their best. Don’t worry—we can fix that. The classic modern selfie is most commonly shot with the front-facing camera of a smartphone, so let’s start there....

But an alarming new story in Quanta magazine—forebodingly titled “A World Without Clouds“—suggests we may be taking our fluffy friends for granted. As Natalie Wolchover describes, new climate models, published Monday in the journal Nature Geosciences, indicate stratocumulus clouds (the pretty ones that don’t give way to rain) could go extinct in less than a century. Their demise could, in turn, trigger 14 degrees of atmospheric warming, on top of the 7 degrees already anticipated from carbon emissions directly....

At least, that’s how the argument goes. The truth is, this lawsuit seems to be a stretch, working on the ambiguous nature of how the FDA distinguishes natural chemicals from synthetic ones, and a product of alarmist, chemophobic ideas about what we put in our foods. Beaumont Costales, the law firm that filed the suit against Natural Beverage Corporation (LaCroix’s parent company), released a statement on Monday that said, “testing reveals that LaCroix contains a number of artificial ingredients… LaCroix in fact contains ingredients that have been identified by the Food and Drug Administration as synthetic....

It really only takes one Weather forecasts usually fall back on memorable clichés to drive home a point. “Turn around, don’t drown” is probably the most famous—meteorologists use it almost reflexively when flooding is in the forecast. Another is “it only takes one,” and we sure learned that this year. The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season saw 15 named storms—the average is 12—but can you name more than Hurricanes Florence and Michael?...

While most messaging apps have group chat functions—as do social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter—you’ll find that certain apps are better than others at managing conversations between multiple people. Picking the right app for your next group chat requires you to think about what you need, including the maximum number of participants, what customization options are available, and extras like video calling. Google Chat is free for the web, Android, and iOS....

These headphones might look like they have it all, because they do. They have a noise reduction rating of 24 dB. They also let you stream music, podcasts, or whatever you listen to directly from your phone to your ears. Most intriguingly, they will let you make and take phone calls with an integrated microphone. Want to hear what’s going on, but just not quite so loud? These are a great option....

The Centers for Disease Control defines the flu season as starting when more than 2.4 percent of all outpatient doctor’s visits are for flu-like illnesses, which means we’re above the national baseline. As the season’s peak, flu-like complaints can make up around five percent of our medical visits, or even seven during a bad year. We’re only at 2.5 percent now, but that number generally starts jumping up quickly once we hit the holiday season....

Although the existence of black holes is all but certain, just a half-century ago experts weren’t so sure. Robert Mann, a physicist at the University of Waterloo who studies black holes and quantum information, says when he was a grad student in the 1970s, “professors really doubted it.” The first inklings that black holes exist are older than the American Constitution. Way back in 1783, the Reverend John Michell, a British scientist, conceived of black holes as “dark stars....