Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The tech giant says it designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to…
It’s May, but California is already getting a taste of what peak fire season could look like, as out-of-control blazes pose a danger to infrastructure and some of the most threatened trees on the planet. A combination of high winds…
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The happy-face spider (Theridion grallator) is famous for the particularly cheery looking patterns on top of its abdomen. Ecologists in Hawaii first described the…
Seattle is best known for the earthquake danger posed by the massive Cascadia subduction zone offshore. But researchers say another threat lies much closer to the city itself. A new study published in GSA Bulletin examines a complicated system of…
The free-to-download Pictonico! turns photos into minigames. Nintendo just announced an upcoming mobile game that should please fans of stuff like WarioWare. Pictonico! is a free-to-download title that’ll be available for both iOS and Android on May 28. It looks…
Anker’s Solix S2000 solves two major pain points with power stations: idle power draw that can leave a battery unexpectedly dead, and the large footprint required to hold so much energy. Impressively, it achieves this at an incredibly low introductory…
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I’ve always been drawn to solving difficult data problems,” he…
“Coils by nature solve a problem, which is how do you keep a space clean and tidy, that has a variable length between two things,” says Steven Harton, senior product manager at Herman Miller. He says the design choice was…
The plain of jars in Laos Alvov/Shutterstock The remains of at least 37 people have been found interred in a giant stone jar in Laos, reshaping our understanding of one of South-East Asia’s most puzzling ancient landscapes. Around the remote…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities. Brockovich — who was famously played by Julia Roberts in a film dramatizing her legal…
May 31, 2026; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; United States forward Christian Pulisic (10) reacts after scoring in the first half at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images The first of two friendlies for the U.S. men’s national…
Authorities have brought criminal charges against the naturalized U.S. citizen accused of causing a deadly crash early Friday that killed five people, including two children, on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia. Virginia State Police said Jing S. Dong, 48,…
