The latest discovery from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, …
The iconic prop from Steven Spielberg's blockbuster is going up for auction in August.
Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry S…
Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources "close to the program" told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer avail…
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, …
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That rumored foldable iPhone didn’t come from nowhere. Experts from CNET, PCMag, Mashable, Popular Science, ZDNET and Lifehacker examine Apple’s most important tech reveals.
For $3, the Antizuck app claims to sniff out smart glasses while running in the background.
A police sergeant has been arrested following accusations that he lied to victims' families and prematurely closed missing persons cases.
I spoke with one of the creators behind the tool to understand exactly how it works and where it gets its sources.
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"This is a wonderful opportunity for citizen science," noted Gold, as the crash will happen on the side that faces Earth.
NPR's science podcast <em>Short Wave</em> brings us space news
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The black box keeps getting darker.
Iran’s underground construction beneath Pickaxe Mountain is naturally protected by tons of volcanic rock capable of withstanding anywhere from 21,000 to 43,000 pounds per square-inch of pressure.
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Researchers have announced synthetic viruses designed by artificial intelligence.
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The solar eclipse on Wednesday was visible from many parts of Europe and some of North America. The economy in Iceland saw a significant boom.
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The tree is thought to date back to the time of Sir Isaac Newton, who lived nearby.
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Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for underprivileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year. Winfrey opened th...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeking more information about the administration's "calamitous" response to cyclosporiasis.
For years doctors advised women against hormone therapy for women in the menopausal transition. Now everyone's talking about how great it is. Is it really a wonder drug that women should all be on?
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The pilot program will apply only to some first-year students at one college.
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The ranking of the 25 best public schools in the US includes seven in California.
Still skipping your lunch salad over cyclospora fears? Doctors and nutritionists didn't miss their daily dose of leafy greens at a recent conference.
It can take up to four hours. The post How one of the American Museum of Natural History’s most terrifying dioramas get clean appeared first on Popular Science.
It's a great time to go back to theaters! The Odyssey is currently making believers in IMAX. And combined with the power of Spider-Man, it's also breaking box-office records. After Verge senior reviewer David Imel reported back on his latest 70MM IMAX adventu…
Bedbugs are sometimes called the vampires of the insect world — hiding during the day and coming out at night to feast on human blood. Well, bad news: Bedbu...
The Eddington experiment used a solar eclipse to prove Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity
Part of a SpaceX rocket weighing an estimated four tons and traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour unintentionally crashed into the moon early Wednesday...
Honor's new Robot Phone is an intriguing combination of two very different products that somehow works surprisingly well. It's not perfect, but I still really want one!
Trump has long pushed vaccine misinformation.
Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash
There's no single best food to improve your health, but dietitians shared 2 favorite high-fiber foods to boost gut health and help prevent disease.
Scientists analyze an accidental SpaceX impact on the moon as cyberattacks target U.S. water systems and a new mRNA flu vaccine is approved by the FDA
The first two months of summer in western Europe have been the hottest on record, the European Union’s climate monitor said Monday, as the continent grapples...
An outbreak of Cyclospora infections tied to produce spreads across multiple states as new research challenges the protein maxxing craze
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Just like all previous summers since the pandemic began, COVID-19 cases are ticking up again, even while other health threats make more headlines.
Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said that steady improvement and empowering local booksellers has powered the bookstore chain's comeback.
Instead of doomscrolling, I made it a mission to learn something new. My screen time has gone down and I've learned to use my phone more efficiently.
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The surprising science of how drought affects the health of our soils.
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An author's debut novel scored $2.4m in licensing deals after Minotaur/Macmillan acquired it, but they unraveled after "questions were raised" over exactly who, or what, wrote it. Deadline reports "there are apparently fingerprints, or something that raised t…
From ecohorror to science-inspired poetry, discover the books Scientific American staffers are recommending this summer
The Japanese Patent Office has declared one of Red’s key Raw video patents as invalid, following a challenge by Panasonic. The court determined that many of the claims made in the patent, first filed in the US in 2008, would have been obvious to someone skill…
Henry Cavill confirms he has a role in the live-action 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series.
Weir will executive produce Benjamin Percy's 'Exoplanet,' an Audible sci-fi thriller written by Benjamin Percy and starring Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose, and John Leguizamo.
The president called for the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to be split into separate shots, despite decades of research showing that the MMR vaccine is safe and effective
From Texas to New York, local communities are organizing against massive data centers, making their development a new political battleground.
Still skipping your lunch salad over cyclospora fears? Doctors and nutritionists didn't miss their daily dose of leafy greens at a recent conference.
Respondents to a survey also reported willingness to use statistics in decision-making if they understood the topic better
Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing the number of childhood vaccines.
The company paid scientists whose studies largely found that mixing energy drinks and alcohol isn’t harmful, contrary to most research.
Apple a dévoilé au Comic-Con de San Diego la bande-annonce de Neuromancer, une série adaptée d'une saga littéraire où le cyberpunk est roi et dont Matrix s'est grandement inspiré en son temps.
A husband and father describes the moment he was bitten by a Caribbean reef shark while snorkeling in the Bahamas.
Republican voters in South Carolina return to the polls Tuesday for the second time in two months to decide who will take the place of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Funding is being terminated for projects including a future CERN experiment and the iconic Lovell Telescope.
Roo is back with his owner after train operators in San Francisco spotted him hunkered down in a tunnel, where he had apparently been since running away two days earlier.
ABC’s Trevor Ault gets a tour of the famous "Brady Bunch" house now open to fans with recreated scenes from the beloved sitcom.
Former NFL star Tony Romo on leave following his DUI arrest video being released.
The filter-feeding invertebrates thrived and even reproduced in a Spanish port. The post Blobby chicken kidney sponges clean dirty water surprisingly well appeared first on Popular Science.
New research shows the negative effect gas stoves can have on people with respiratory conditions.
The Department of Defense has ordered 30 U.S. universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities and military training institutions as President Donald Trump's administration scrutinizes the country’s growing global influence
Fauci previously served as the chief medical officer to President Joe Biden and led the U.S. COVID pandemic response effort
Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by a question about how the op-ed itself was written. Zvezdelina Stankova, a teachi…
The Trump administration's upending of years of vaccine advice puts many pediatricians in a quandary. Some are steering patients away from the CDC to other authoritative websites, including their own.
In a first, astronomers say they’ve detected a long ribbon of stars outside the Milky Way. The globular cluster stellar stream could reveal clues about dark...
Recent polling shows Democratic candidates closing gaps or pulling ahead in key Texas statewide races this November. Here's what to know.
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The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
The continent’s summer of extraordinary heat and drought has pushed some of its rivers to record lows, revealing long submerged relics from ancient bones to...
By Niket Nishant, Ashitha Shivaprasad and Manya Saini July 27 (Reuters) - For insurers, the periodic El Niño climate phenomenon has traditionally lowered the...
After years of criticism, Republicans are bringing the heat in their longstanding efforts to target former health official Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Relentless heat and a dearth of rain is having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers, which have tumbled to record lows in place, threaten...
There's no single best food to improve your health, but dietitians shared 2 favorite high-fiber foods to boost gut health and help prevent disease.
After being captured, Triton's own gravitational forces stirred up Neptune's original moons and caused most of them to collide with each other.
U.S. President Donald Trump says his country does not need Canada. Canada also supplies aluminum, potash to U.S. farms and parts for an auto industry built...
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