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Megan and Stephen Alger, photographed at home with their children in Augusta, Georgia. They have eight children and are expecting their ninth in December. Kendrick Brinson/for NPR hide caption toggle caption Kendrick Brinson/for NPR With eight kids and another one on the way, Megan Alger can seem more like the CEO of a small company than a typical American mom. In their family’s suburban home in Augusta, Ga., kids are taught to be self-sufficient from a young age. Megan regularly deputizes her older children to care for the younger ones. “I just gave my 2-year-old to my 8-year-old and said,…

With everyday vehicles becoming more and more equipped, you don’t expect motorcycles, let alone superbikes, to fall behind, do you? Ask and you shall receive, says Italian bikemaker Aprilia with the introduction of its latest rider aids.And it’s rather groundbreaking, considering we’re talking about predictive electronics that transform regular superbikes from reactive machines into proactive riding partners. The electronic aids in question anticipate loss of control before it occurs with the help of onboard sensors and predictive software algorithms. This helps apply pre-set engine braking, traction control, and wheelie control to enhance safety, performance, and rider confidence on both road…

Under pressure from the federal government to increase organ transplants, hospitals and organ procurement organizations across the country are rushing people toward donation, and some patients have been harmed. Brian M. Rosenthal explains how and where this is happening.

China controls about 90% of the entire global supply of rare earth magnets, including their mining and refining. That means that most of the neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium that end up in EV motors, drones, wind turbines and even smartphones … well, depending on supply and demand or even geopolitical landscape, China basically makes the rules.California-based Conifer Motors is trying to break that stranglehold by simply cutting rare earth materials out of the equation and making EV motors from one of the most abundant materials on Earth: iron.Yes, it’s been tried before. Iron-based magnets have historically been considered too weak…

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has been up and running for three years. The day after its third anniversary, the Trump administration shut down a specialized option for gay and trans young people. Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images The nation’s Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 988, shuttered the specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth this week. The move came a day after the Lifeline marked three years since its launch. During this period, it has fielded more than 16 million calls, texts and chats. Nearly 10% of those contacts have been from…

When you think of ceiling cranes, you’d generally think of large steel I-beam girder systems that weigh a million pounds and could probably hoist the concrete foundation right out from under the building. CeiliX, however, has invented an elegant omnidirectional system called the InifnityCrane Skyrunner.Rather than a heavy industrial rail, it uses a completely customizable overhead lattice frame that the crane “base” attaches to. It has a series of individual grippers – each equipped with laterally-facing rollers – in a “tank track-like” configuration. As it moves along, the “tank tracks” rotate, opening and closing the grippers, and grabs ahold of…

Valeriya/iStockphoto/Getty Images Health insurance premiums are going way up next year for people who buy their insurance on Healthcare.gov or the state-based marketplaces, according to an analysis out Friday. The average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium, according to the analysis from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. The insurers’ narrative Summer is the time of year when health insurance companies set their rates for the following January and then submit those rates to state regulators. Researchers at KFF then pore over those documents to make sense of what health…

YASA is on a tear to demonstrate its technical prowess in flat, compact axial flux motor technology. As we’ve seen repeatedly in the past, good things happen when the British e-machine specialist sets its sights on the record books. Hot off of showing what its motors can do inside a hunk of exotic Mercedes super-hardware, it’s teasing how its next generation of motors will redefine expectations all over again. One of its prototype motors smashed the unofficial power density world record, pulling supercar levels of output from a flat, 29-pound (13.1-kg) disc package. YASA announced this week that it achieved…

Over the years I’ve gone from using harsh, conventional skincare products to rubbing mud and avocado on my face! My current skincare routine is a little more in the middle of those two extremes. While I still love a good food mask, there are some really good pre-made skincare options now! I still have high standards and don’t want anything going on my skin that has sketchy ingredients. Through trial and error I’ve found some skincare brands with clean ingredients that also perform well.  Here are some of my favorite skincare brands that I use and recommend! The moms behind…

Back in 2020, Google kicked off a project to crowdsource signals from Android phones that an earthquake might be imminent.The system leveraged the accelerometers inside these devices to gather seismic data, combine it to detect patterns consistent with an earthquake, and deliver timely alerts to people who might be affected.Three years on, researchers who worked on the project have published a paper in Science this week that shows their earthquake detection tech worked pretty well – proving its utility in places that don’t have seismic stations that can study and deliver local alerts. Earthquake alerts, now part of Android The…