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An open book becomes a miniature landscape of mountains, a river and a neighborhood beside a camera lens and glass models. — An illustrated landscape of nature, technology and discovery.

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Selected October 12, 2026

Radio

Choose an internet radio and find your stations

Compare home listening setups, check station and service support, and get connected with a practical setup checklist.

A conceptual modular camera robot beside groups of ivory cubes and amber cylinders, with building parts on a workbench.

Toys

Build, train and test a modular AI robot

Explore the Nous AI Set, plan a first model-training project, and learn how to test what the robot recognizes.

A conceptual wheeled camera robot beside a cube, an amber cylinder and a glass panel showing their outlines.

Toys

Explore how a robot uses an AI camera

Prepare mBot2 and AI Camera 2.0, test visual recognition, and understand how model results become programmed actions.

A double-helix teaching model and a symbolic family tree on glass beside an open notebook.

Cancer

Understand inherited cancer risk and genetic testing

Gather family history, understand test results and prepare for genetic counseling with a printable appointment worksheet.

Three stylized launch-vehicle models stand on ivory plinths beside a large cratered Moon globe.

Rockets

Understand the rockets behind NASA’s Moon missions

Understand how SLS, Starship, and New Glenn support Artemis, and follow the tests and mission plans behind the next lunar landings.

A hand checks two documents on a glass panel beside a navy laptop and reference book.

Law

Use AI for legal preparation with care

Organize facts, prepare questions and check AI output while protecting sensitive information and recognizing when to seek legal help.

Tall redwood trunks rise above a fern understory and an imagined boardwalk in a misty coastal forest.

Collection in focus · Environment

Look a little closer
at the natural world.

Read a forest, follow a watershed, or plan a neighborhood project. Explore the expanded Environment collection for explanations, worked examples and useful planning tools.

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