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Cyberattacks plague the health industry. Critics call Feds’ response feeble and fractured.

By Darius Tahir / KFF Health News

Lionsgate will let Runway AI train its model on John Wick and thousands of other titles.

What a major movie studio’s AI deal could mean for the future of Hollywood

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of memory crystal disc encoded with human genome

In case of extinction, scientists store human genome on a ‘memory crystal’ that lasts billions of years

Passport close up on top of entry stamps

How to renew your US passport online (finally)

a wave rising up from a flat sea

Extreme 3D ocean waves can reach heights 4x steeper than previously thought

By Laura Baisas

Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque.

How biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms

By Peter A Noble and Alex Pozhitkov / The Conversation

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

Balloon attracting hair with static electricity

After 2,600 years, we finally know how static electricity really works

A possible painting of the dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s.

The perplexing puzzle of a ‘Horned Serpent’ cave painting

The cool ways ISS astronauts conduct experiments using household items

The cool ways ISS astronauts conduct experiments using household items

By Briley Lewis

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed.

Biggest black hole jets ever seen span 140 Milky Way galaxies

Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem, especially in hospitals. Could an old, disused therapy involving viruses offer a way to counter it?

What if a virus could reverse antibiotic resistance?

By Patience Asanga / Knowable Magazine

a Byrde's whale surfaces to breathe in the Pacific Ocean

Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’

By Laura Baisas

18 cool new iOS 18 features to try on your iPhone

a small baby pygmy hippopotamus sits on the ground

Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time

By Laura Baisas

Water anole breathing through air bubble underwater

This lizard’s skin creates an underwater bubble helmet

a cartoon of a young boy named oliver reading Popular Science on a tablet. he said "oh i can be popular by doing science."

Curiosity and fart jokes help explain why ‘Volcanoes are Hot’

By Laura Baisas

FDA approves Apple Watch screening for sleep apnea risk

FDA approves Apple Watch screening for sleep apnea risk

By Mack DeGeurin

Concrete material with hollow tube design

Bone-like, hollow concrete design makes it 5.6 times stronger

a space craft floats in space

Ask Us Anything

What human-made object is the farthest from Earth?

By Alex Hazlett

looking for a mental health provider online

Struggling to find an in-network mental health provider? Here’s what you can do.

By Max Blau / ProPublica

Crystal Palace in 1851 Britain.

How standard screws cracked a 173-year-old architectural mystery

AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation near CDs.

AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation review: Clear sound in an updated package

a red fish with a grumpy expression and large teeth

Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea

By Laura Baisas

Skeletal remains of child buried in vampire grave

Medieval child ‘vampire burial’ exhumed near Polish cathedral

a long bronze sword

Egyptologists find ancient sword possibly wielded against the mysterious ‘Sea Peoples’

By Laura Baisas

a hand using a computer

Use God Mode and Super God Mode to instantly make you a Windows power user

For the first time, part of the ocean has been granted legal personhood

By Isabella Kaminski / Hakai Magazine

3D illustration showing layers of the Earth in space.

Digging to the center of the Earth–or at least enough to bury poop

screenshot of files app

Hate what Microsoft did with File Explorer? Try this alternative.

a black car part with a man holding a heat gun. his reflection is seen in the car

Inside the Texas factory where a gravel-shooting machine pummels self-healing cars

By Kristin Shaw

This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission.

What was the first color in the universe?

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

a reddish moon in the sky

How the blood moon gets its ghoulish hue

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

surprised Jack Russell terrier portrait on yellow background.

Animals only see in black and white and 5 other color myths

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

hand squeezing balloon

Thanks to Reddit, a new diagnosis is bubbling up across the United States

By Rae Ellen Bichell / KFF Health News

toilet paper shaped like sad face

Why you should consider a bidet

By Debbie Wolfe

Lego Full Scale McLaren P1 driving

LEGO built a full-scale, drivable McLaren P1 model

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen.

Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its larvae

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of AST Spacemobile Bluewalker 3 above Earth

Private Space Flight

Five new massive satellites outshine most evening stars

a tv on a dresser

How to use the Matter smart home standard: The best way to get all your devices talking to one another

Woman working at desk with face mask on while sick

The research supports you taking a sick day

This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our Sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.

Searching for the secrets behind the Little Red Dots

By Fabio Pacucci / The Conversation

Conspiracy theories hat

How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind

By Mack DeGeurin

a reservoir in colombia with very low water levels due to drought

Mega El Niños helped kill 90 percent of life on Earth

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of the cases where one impulse Δv = 10−1 m s−1 from a small asteroid impact has been applied to Apophis.

Astrophysicist predicts (slightly) higher chance for major asteroid impact in 2029

Contrail clouds from passing jet planes streak the sky over the Utah desert.

Ask Us Anything

Why airplanes leave white streaks in the sky

By Lauren Leffer

tv remote pointed at tv

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

By Elisabeth Rosenthal/KFF Health News

person in space suit above earth

Polaris Dawn astronauts complete historic first commercial spacewalk

an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat

The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

neanderthal teeth in a cave

Neanderthals’ social isolation may have sped up their extinction

By Laura Baisas

A bullet train passes below Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Japan will test self-driving bullet trains in 2028

NASA astronaut Ed White free floating in space during a spacewalk in 1965.

How does Polaris Dawn fit into the history of spacewalks?

By Briley Lewis

Lasius emarginatus

This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

By Popular Science Team

microbes in the sky

The sky is full of germs

By Lauren Leffer

Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes

Hardt Hyperloop used magnetic levitation to lift a pod up and propel it through a test track at 18 miles per hour.

Hyperloop’s not dead, apparently

By Mack DeGeurin

an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth

‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth

By Laura Baisas

Polaris Dawn Crew Dragon capsule detaching from SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Polaris Dawn is on its way to attempt first-ever commercial spacewalk

child playing with fidget spinner

Ask Us Anything

Does fidgeting really help you focus?

By Lauren Leffer

Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells—as shown here—once fired from German battleships.

The big Baltic bomb cleanup

By Paul Hockenos / Hakai Magazine

a whale surfaces next to a large fishing trawler

Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.

By Laura Baisas

People taking photos of the new iPhone 16 Pro with their iPhones

Hands on: Apple introduces new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches

Mini mum is one of the smallest frogs in the world, described by Mark D. Scherz and his colleagues in 2019. These tiny frogs from southeastern Madagascar live in amongst the leaf litter and feed on tiny mites. They are amongst the target species of the GEMINI project, because their closest relatives are ten times larger.

Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals

Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs

By Mack DeGeurin