If you thought you'd seen all there is to see from the Artemis II mission, you're wrong. This week NASA posted over 800GB worth of science data, images, and videos on the Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science site. The archive includes over 11,000 photos and…
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time …
An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time a…
President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that Elon Musk's SpaceX shares for children will be given through Trump Accounts. Musk said earlier today that he would give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" sometime next year. Musk had thanke…
Elon Musk says he plans to give one of his SpaceX shares to every child in the US starting next year. With around 72 million children in the US as of July 2025, Musk would be giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares, according to a report from CNBC. Mu…
After months sitting on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has finally launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model, claiming it can compete with the best the industry has to offer. Google says Argon delivers "frontier reasoning and improved perf…
SpaceX is planning to access at least 80,000 cell sites as part of efforts to compete directly with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the publication that SpaceX is in talks with Crown Castle Inc., one of the nati…
Ukrainian officials claim the Elon Musk-owned Starlink put new limits on its service in the area without warning, disrupting the country's drone operations and missions, according to reports from Reuters and the Financial Times. The move comes just days after…
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom companies say they woul…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company would attempt to catch Starship and its booster next month, with the goal of recovering the entire orbital launch system for the first time. If successful, Musk said, the attempt would mark the first time in history an or…
The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it "among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration." It's a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have req…
Wyze announced a new version of its Ultra BodyScan smart scale that debuted nearly a year ago with additional electrodes on a retractable handle, allowing it to provide a breakdown of various health metrics across your arms, legs, and torso. With the new Ultr…
SpaceX announced revenues of $14.6 billion in its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, which it says was a growth of 161 percent year-over-year "fueled by our Super Intelligence (SI) segment and accelerated growth in Connectivity." While its Space division posted a $7 mil…
Oura is introducing two new cardiovascular-focused health tracking features to its smart rings designed to help users better understand the effect regular workouts and exercise are having on their long-term health, and whether they need to ramp it up or dial …
In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it pl…
Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya …
"What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA's Artemis II mission?" asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video: Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotation…
SpaceX is gearing up for a monumental flight today that's sure to be closely watched by Amazon. If successful, SpaceX will deploy its first Starlink V3 satellites, which tout meaningful upgrades to the ever-expanding Starlink constellation. The 26 satellites …
In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that's up to 80 times as potent as ca…
Which CEO has sunk the furthest into the putrid muck of Donald Trump’s decaying brain?
Drugs that can reverse multiple sclerosis in mice and a new species of penguin are just the beginning.
Honor's Magic 9 Pro Max is a beast of a phone for videographers and photographers, thanks to ARRI's continued presence for cinematic refinements.
President Donald Trump has offered the job of White House press secretary to Katie Zacharia. Here's what to know about her.
At least 20 U.S. military sites have been damaged since President Trump started the war.
Unlike Earth’s multi-plate surface, the Moon is a single chunk—an “unbroken shell” where over 10,000 young faults can erupt into moonquakes at any time.
Stanford researchers confirmed that contact with healthy coral can revive bleached coral in as little as eight weeks.
John Cena shares the "just renting" outlook that helps him keep life's frustrations in perspective.
A stretch of water in the west of the continent is now called the Amos Channel after the ex-BBC journalist.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their efforts to resolve mysterious mirror images in chemical molecules. Many molecules of life come in versions that look alike but aren’t exactly identical, like …
Republican U.S. Rep. David Valadao is fighting for reelection in central California. 6 in 10 residents of his district are covered by Medicaid, which he voted to cut last year.
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When Apple revealed the HomeView to the world, it did so with an unusual ad for the company: Instead of pristine, polished tech in immaculate rooms, it's a three-minute look at the messy, frantic morning routine of a family of five. Apple's new smart display …
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Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took place …
Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported for Tec…
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the op…
US President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk (Kent NISHIMURA) Donald Trump presented Elon Musk with the top US science medal on Thursday, as the rocket tycoon fully returned to the president's orbit after an explosive bust-up…
Colin Pillinger died believing that Beagle 2 had not landed, and now his work is being celebrated around the UK.
Americans are mostly negative on AI and oppose new data centers near them, another poll shows.
Thomas Jefferson has long been rumored to have fathered children with Sally Hemings. New genetic evidence strengthens that connection. (Photo by Burstein Collection/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) - Burstein Collection/Corbis/Getty Images Opening a Bible that …
New research reveals how bee stingers work, why microplastics may be harmful and what postmenopausal ovaries are doing decades later
President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Stone, James O'Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear
Sometimes you need a good old fashioned fail in your life in order to put things in perspective. These images are here to provide. Failure can make us all feel a little better about ourselves. There's nothing wrong with a little bit of schadenfreude every no…
Anthropic's announcement generated enthusiasm, skepticism, and lots of questions.
Breaking down this year’s Nobel Prize–winning science, from switching brain cells on and off with light to catching cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules. Plus, a 194-year-old tortoise’s DNA might hold the key to a longer life.
We asked experts to reassure us about the loyalties of the internet's favorite animal.
The Blake Crouch sci-fi series is nearing the end of its second season on Apple TV+.
From the smallest building blocks of life to prehistoric vomit and a newly discovered amoeba that can really take the heat.
Scientific American spoke to the candidate for Massachusetts’s fourth congressional district about climate change, misinformation and why, when it comes to health care, some socialism may be required
Saphier’s nomination now heads to the full Senate for a vote
The proposed change to how the National Institutes of Health handles grant applications has been criticized by scientists as reducing transparency
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin today announced a historic $3 billion gift to further elevate CMU in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami.
This week in science we check out gymnastic snakes, chatty vultures and missions to faraway moons
NASA’s Swift Observatory orbits above Earth in an artist’s concept. - Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA A celebrated space telescope is rapidly dipping from its once-stable orbit and falling to Earth just shy of the 22nd anniversary of its launch. The Neil G…
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter. The owl’s large facial ruff, formed of dense feathers, helps amplify soun
The new push loosens U.S. regulations for sterilizing spacecraft bound for the Red Planet and calls for modernizing the science of “planetary protection”
If you really want to understand the extent to which everyone thinks Silicon Valley is so uncanny these days, watch "Cupertino."
The newly discovered lizard (Liolaemus archipensis) was found in the high Andean puna (Handout) Scientists have discovered a new species of lizard in the Peruvian Andes, the Natural History Museum of San Marcos University said Saturday.The lizard measures be…
A Japanese spacecraft could become the first ever to bring Martian samples back to Earth.
After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible."It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything," he said.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories fr…
Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has lauded its revamped website America.gov as a way to simplify Americans’ access to information and services scattered across a plethora of agency sites, but President Donald Trump probably won't like some of the a…
US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the hig…
The results resolve major problems in math, physics and computer science. But like other recent AI-generated “slop drops,” the releases are already controversial
Franco Lopez asked Meta's Muse AI agent to help his son prepare for an astronomy quiz. It made him flashcards and a custom podcast.
On "Meet the Press," Bill Gates said humanity is entering the messy first phase of AI, but the second one could bring an "era of abundance."
It’s been a blistering year. A record-hot September doesn’t bode well for the rest of it
Jennifer Shuford, a well-respected infectious disease researcher, cited a desire to spend more time with her family
Can a Democrat flip the Kansas Senate seat for the first time in nearly a century?
Francis Halzen is a leader in the study of neutrinos, ghostly particles from across the universe that hint at exciting new physics
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
Cornstarch to the rescue. The post Monarch butterfly saved after landing in refried beans appeared first on Popular Science.
An El Niño–driven ocean surge threatens coastal flooding, researchers warn that a plan to loosen vaccine requirements will increase measles risks in Florida, and experts debunk a viral TikTok cold remedy
CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby shares his daily routine, emphasizing family time, efficient meetings, and the role of AI in enhancing his work.
Ситуация была настолько опасной, что на разработку плана спасения потребовалось около трёх часов, пишет North Shore News.
Skerritt also starred in 'Top Gun' and 'Steel Magnolias.'
Tech entrepreneurs are bringing an engineer’s eye to research funding. They must be open about their findings to reap maximum benefit.
AI poses a shared risk for the countries, but competition looms, analysts said.
Saber Interactive makes me want to puke, and I'm glad
The midterm elections are upon us, but before you use an AI tool to help you decide on your votes, you need to know these things.
A Nature investigation identified more than 30 requests since 2024 to US universities in a campaign questioning climate attribution science.
The Trump administration has launched a revamped website, America
Isaias just became the latest-forming first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season since reliable records began, meteorologists say
Beyond maths and science scores, the latest PISA data reveal whether students feel they belong at school. The news is mostly good, but not for every student.
Ultra-rich philanthropists are disrupting biomedical science. Plus, why physicists have kept an antimatter particle caged for months and whether it’s really possible to be swallowed by a whale and survive.
The U.S. has no national law for paid parental leave. But in states that do, more dads are using the benefit, sometimes more than moms. The change comes as Americans say having kids is unaffordable.
Anthropic's new rule says you can't be repeatedly "cruel" to Claude. Oops.
Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout
Slime mold aliens explore Pompeii—and humanity—in a new book by Annalee Newitz
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused
Read the short story 'The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana' by Adam-Troy Castro right here on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.
Cartoon cephalopod Miss Abyss is taking a page out of the 'Flat Stanley' playbook to spread the word about ocean conservation The post Pink, pretty, and protective. A dumbo octopus is here with a message from the deep-sea. appeared first on Popular Science.
Jonathan Tison also revealed which 'Friday the 13th' movie proved to be his biggest inspiration.
Researchers created a mini Enceladus in the lab to see how microscopic life would fare in the moon's ocean.
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The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI.Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest accepts photos and video taken using powerful microscop…
Scientists are trying to help coral reefs survive record ocean temperatures. Plus, the aftermath of a deadly attack on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and whether it’s OK to dodge small talk.
Smartphones and artificial intelligence are undermining our ability to follow a complex argument, with grave consequences.