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to begin.

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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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An architectural model shows a data center, substation, water reservoir and homes separated by a planted buffer and road.

Construction

Weigh a data center in your community

Compare local benefits, power and water demands, neighborhood impacts and commitments before taking a position.

A broad galaxy-field glass panel stands behind three star-field tiles showing a point brightening and fading, beside a teal light-curve sculpture.

Astronomy

Follow and interpret space telescope results

Follow Roman mission updates, understand its surveys and planet detections, and evaluate its results.

A small mountain-forest model shows moss-covered trees in mist above a stream and a cutaway soil edge.

Environment

Follow water through a cloud forest

Explore how fog, rain and the canopy shape a forest’s water supply.

Security

Make a lost-phone plan

Check your backups and prepare a recovery path while your phone is still in your hand.

Navy headphones and a teal speaker on separate ivory pedestals beside a glass phone and amber ribbons.

Bluetooth

Get Bluetooth audio working

Trace connection, microphone and sound-quality problems with a repeatable troubleshooting process.

Two compact cars stand beside a charging post, bicycle and transit shelter in an editorial landscape model.

Environment

Find the right greener ride

Compare vehicle types through your everyday journeys, charging access and energy use.

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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