This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, my esthetician was smearing hot wax on my face. The two caterpillars I call […]
Why does a sneeze take over your whole face? And why can light trigger it in some people? The answers lie in brain evolution and sensory wiring.
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Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless.
Last summer, Peter Degen’s postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unusual about these. Published in 2017, the paper had assessed the accuracy of a particular type of statistical analysis on epidemiological data and […]
Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.
The northern lights may be visible overnight on Friday, May 15, through Saturday, May 16, after a large coronal hole opened up on the sun, super-charging the solar wind.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will fly past Mars on May 15, 2026, using the planet’s gravity to accelerate toward asteroid Psyche.
How did a deepfake indict an innocent person in federal court without anyone catching it? The first federal survey of judges on deepfake challenges just dropped.
Psychological research helps to explain why certain awkward memories feel mentally “sticky.” Here’s how you can weaken their grip on your mind.