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Our Favorite Earbuds for Samsung Owners Are On Sale

While Apple and Pixel owners have their own earbuds with special features, Samsung phone owners have the option of reaching for something like the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 FE. They’re a pair of last-gen Samsung buds that are still great,…

Mystery ‘whippet’ space explosion is the brightest of its kind

“The Whippet”, as imagined by the New Scientist picture desk NASA/muratart/Shutterstock/Adobe Stock A sudden, mysterious burst of bright light in the sky could be from a black hole devouring a vast, unusually bare star. In 2018, astronomers spotted a new…

Why are languages spoken at different speeds?

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Have you ever switched audio language halfway through a movie? Although foreign languages always sound rapid-fire to untrained ears, as you swap between Thai,…

This 2-pound dinosaur is rewriting what scientists know about evolution

Researchers have identified a 90 million year old fossil that helps solve a long standing mystery about a strange group of prehistoric animals. The discovery was led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientist Peter Makovicky along with Argentine paleontologist…

FAA opens up real world testing for air taxi startups

US regulators have approved eight pilot programs across 26 states that will allow Archer, Joby and other eVTOL companies to finally start testing aircraft this summer, according to a US Department of Transportation (DoT) press release. That will allow those…

The lawyers and scientists training AI to steal their careers

heThe LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would…

Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in seven months to $2.3B

Uzbekistan fintech Uzum has reached a $2.3 billion valuation — about 53% higher than just seven months ago — as investors place growing bets on the country’s emerging digital economy. The valuation stems from a $131.5 million investment led by…

Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in…

Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?

Black smoke rises after fires broke out following US-Israel attacks targeting oil storage facilities in Tehran, Iran, on 8 March Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images The skies in northern Iran were dark with smoke on 8 March as the US…

15 enchanting images from the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A pair of hares spar. A sparrow hawk pins down a starling. Nature can be fierce. It can also be serene and beautiful. The…