Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments...

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Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV

Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV

There’s a lot of goodwill out there for the Chevrolet Bolt. As maybe the first properly affordable longer-range electric car on the market, the Bolt wasn’t perfect. It didn’t charge very fast, and...

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Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

Switch 2 pub backs off Game Key Cards after leaking lower-cost cartridge options

The Switch 2’s data-free, download-enabling Game Key Cards have proved controversial with players who worry about long-term ownership and access issues to their purchases. But they’ve remained...

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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers

The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have...

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How to Use 'Progressive Overload' to Get Stronger

How to Use 'Progressive Overload' to Get Stronger

As you get stronger, you become able to lift heavier and heavier weights. That's the idea at the heart of an often-misunderstood fitness concept: progressive overload. Unfortuantely, there are a lot...

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How a Simple URL Typo Can Make You a Target for Malware

How a Simple URL Typo Can Make You a Target for Malware

Clicking through search results to a website comes with the risk of landing on a spoofed page that is actually a phishing scam, but so does navigating directly by typing a URL into your browser. As...

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