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It’s proven to boost both size and strength gains. You can buy creatine supplements as powders or pills, but buying one that fits your budget won’t guarantee its quality. Our team has tested a lot of products, and we’ve found which ones are worth your money. Keep reading to learn more about creatine supplements. What Is Creatine? Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps supply energy to all cells in the body....

Hastings is a bioartist who uses living tissues and organisms as her medium. To make the prints, which she calls “plasmatypes” after the plasma in blood, she drained half a pint of her own blood. Periodically, over the course of months at her studio, Hastings wrapped a tourniquet around her arm, drove a needle into her veins, and pumped out five vials at a time. She then mixed the blood serum with other chemicals to produce a homemade light-sensitive fluid she could slather on paper....

Even though scientists have had concerns about our favorite starchy yellow berry for awhile now, the situation recently became far more urgent. The ICA, Colombia’s fish and wildlife conservation office, confirmed that a deadly species of fungus was detected in the northeastern part of the country. This pathogen, called Tropical Race 4 or TR4, causes Panama disease in bananas. The symptoms are severe: The stalk that attaches the leaf to the stem wilts, the vasculature of the plant turns brown, and eventually, the part of the banana tree that looks like a trunk splits and the whole plant collapses....

Whether you’re ready to install a bidet/toilet combo or transform your existing toilet, there’s a model that will do the job. You don’t necessarily need to spend a bundle (though you can). What you do need is a little research (like what we’ve got) to figure out exactly which model you need. Best overall: Toto Washlet S550EBest toilet combo: WOODBRIDGE B-0960S B0960S Smart BidetBest with dryer: Brondell Swash 1400 Luxury Bidet Toilet SeatBest electric: Bio Bidet Bliss Best budget: LUXE Bidet Neo 120 Also consider: Soft Spa Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat...

Best overall: Wacom Cintiq 16 Drawing TabletBest extra-large: XP-PEN Artist24 ProBest for professionals: Wacom Intuos Pro LargeBest for kids: Boogie Board Play and Trace LCD Writing TabletBest for beginners: iPad Air 5Best for sketching and note-taking: Surface Pro 8Best budget : Huion Inspiroy Dial Q620MBest e-paper tablet for drawing: reMarkable 2 How we selected the best drawing tablets As a freelance technology critic for over 10 years, I’ve reviewed technology, including tablets, for publications including Popular Mechanics, Tom’s Guide, The Daily Beast, Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, and Bob Vila....

If you’re one of those people who’s ever found the perfect pair of leather boots, you know how important it can be to enjoy every minute of your time in them. Your favorite shoes are like an old friend—even if you haven’t seen them for a while, you can take up right where you left off comfortably. Take good care of those boots, and they’ll take good care of your feet....

In some parts of the world, this clay pot cooler is called a zeer, and its sustainable, inexpensive design is far from new. People in the Middle East and Africa have long used similar contraptions to keep food from spoiling in hot, dry climates. “It’s just amazing,” says Paul Smith Lomas, CEO of Practical Action, a U.K. charity that helps people in Latin America, East and Southern Africa, and South Asia find solutions to daily challenges, including food preservation....

The European Commission is proposing that all devices sold in the EU come with a USB-C charger. This measure, designed to fight electronic waste and make life easier for consumers, will likely affect Apple, which still uses its proprietary Lightning charging cable, the most. “My guess is that they’re going to be able to successfully implement this,” says Aaron Perzanowski, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, “despite the fact there’s certainly going to be a lot of pushback from electronics companies....

To take the test, a patient blows for ten seconds into a sterilized straw attached to the side of the analyzer, which looks like a black plastic box the size of a suitcase. Inside is a mass spectrometer, which can analyze the specific chemicals in a gas. The device will look for five different volatile organic compounds—the type of chemical that creates smells like pine needles or orange rind—emitted by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID....

The 2023 Ranger Raptor is the second generation of a rowdy mid-size pickup, and will be available in the US for the first time sometime next year. This is the third performance truck sporting a Raptor badge made available in America, slotted below the F-150 Raptor pickup and alongside the Bronco Raptor SUV. When Ford re-launched the Ranger nameplate in 2019, it also built a performance-oriented version called the Ranger Raptor and offered it for sale in Australia, Europe, Mexico, and the Asia-Pacific markets....

The promise of this discovery was huge. After all, imagine being able to store the entirety of the world’s data on one hard drive. Even more incredible, the information could be held for centuries without any concern for decomposition. The sky appeared to be the limit. But realizing the dream may not be easy and could run into some very difficult obstacles. Also, some of the potential applications simply may not be prudent, let alone possible....

Past: In the rearview 1. Rocks and bricks Humans have been clearing trees and burning brush to transport food and attack our enemies for more than 10,000 years, but Mesopotamians invented some of the first paved roads to make more transit-friendly cities around 3000 B.C. Workers molded thousands of identical clay bricks, dried them, then arranged them like tiles. To keep paths from crumbling every time a cow kicked, they glued the blocks together with bitumen, a naturally occurring semisticky petroleum that we still use as a binder in asphalt today....

“As more and more nations are active in space, it’s more important than ever that the United States continues to lead the world in growing international alliances and modeling rules and norms for the peaceful and responsible use of space,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a NASA statement Friday. Funding for the ISS was previously set to expire in 2024, as per an act of Congress in 2014. But NASA anticipates that it will officially fund the ISS through 2030, says Robyn Gatens, director of the ISS for space operations....

4:34 p.m.: Flood inspections still ongoing in New York. Howard Glaser, Director of Operations for the state, is tweeting shots of the damage. 3:38 p.m.: New Jersey’s Oyster Creek nuclear power plant is still under an “alert,” and the Washington Post is reporting that Sandy also shut down three nuclear power reactors–in Scriba, New York; Buchanan, New York; and Hancocks Bridge, New Jersey. 3:18 p.m.: 8.5 million homes are without power....

That’s the vision, at least, behind a new drone program, from NexLog, the Marine Corps next generation logistics team. Last February the team sent corporal Rhet McNeal to a collaborative workspace on a pier in San Francisco to see if modern design tools could build the unmanned scout drone the Corps needs. Except: the Marine Corps already has a hand-tossed drone for scouting missions like this, and it’s had one for years....

While researchers have not quite made it to the edge of the universe, they did just creep one step further with the discovery of a galaxy up to 13.5 billion light-years away, named HD1. In a study published today in The Astrophysical Journal and an accompanying paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, University of Tokyo astronomer Yuichi Harikane and his colleagues outline the methods of discovery and possible implications of HD1’s existence....

Chandrayaan-2 adds to the list of India’s recent accomplishments in space. This probe was sent on a scientific mission, but India’s achievements in space include other military developments, all of which reflect a challenge to China. Though some are warning of a space race between the U.S. and China, I suggest the real space race is happening in Asia. This year alone, both China and India have landed, or attempted to land, probes on the moon....

As a result, some users have been able to use the camera’s IR mode to look through thin layers of plastic or even thin clothing that’s otherwise opaque. That sounds more scandalous than it really is. If you’re expecting to pick one of these up and go around using it like a pair of X-ray specs ordered from the back of a comic book, you’ll be terribly disappointed. What you’ll get from the 8 Pro is a mostly gray-scale look through some thin, dark plastic surfaces or a blurry view at what’s in someone’s pockets....

One of the most common triggers of inflammation is a toxin known as lipopolysaccharide, or LPS. It’s produced by a large number of bacterial species and acts as an outer coating for the organism. However, when the immune system comes into contact with this molecule, the local area goes into an immediate defensive posture. While infection hasn’t initiated, the immune forces ready themselves for an attack. If LPS is sensed for an extended period of time, the effects may become systemic and affect the body as a whole....