Trump's deadline nears – with little indication Iran is on board
The US president is in a delicate political position as the final hours to Tuesday’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz tick down. Source link
You can now buy a DIY quantum computer
Two engineers work on one of Qilimanjaro’s quantum computers Qilimanjaro Quantum computers once seemed like fanciful machines of the future. Now, a DIY kit means that anyone with enough money and engineering skills can have one of their own. Barcelona-based…
Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger
In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call “The Gateway to Hell.” In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. The indigenous Yakut people are…
New pill cuts “bad” cholesterol by 60% in major trial
A new experimental pill called enlicitide dramatically lowered levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often referred to as “bad” cholesterol, by as much as 60%, according to a phase three clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine….
OpenAI reportedly plans to double its workforce to 8,000 employees
While other tech companies have been laying off employees year after year, OpenAI is doing the opposite. According to a report from the Financial Times, the AI giant is looking to expand its workforce to 8,000 employees by the end…
Here are 20 of our favorite outdoor deals from REI’s Member Days Sale
REI’s latest sale is in full swing. The outdoor retailer’s exclusive shopping event runs through Monday, March 23rd, bringing with it a batch of discounts on Garmin watches, tents, portable stoves, and a slew of Verge-approved goodies. As expected, most…
Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says
A civil jury in California on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had…
71 Best Podcasts (2026): True Crime, Culture, Science, Fiction
Podcasts are to radio as streaming services are to television, and we’re lucky to be living through a golden age of both. But you need help finding the best podcasts worthy of your ear because, while you can find a…
Inside the world’s first antimatter delivery service
The BASE-STEP transportable trap system Marina Cavazza, Chetna Krishna/CERN Nestled in the heart of CERN’s antimatter factory, surrounded by intensely powerful magnetic fields and within a vacuum sparser than interstellar space, is some of the most sensitive material on Earth….
The biggest medieval march in English history never actually happened
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. One of history’s most famous military marches has been misunderstood for centuries. According to the prevailing English accounts, King Harold made a momentous, 200-mile…
Scientists turn probiotic bacteria into tumor-hunting cancer killers
Cancer affects millions of people worldwide each year, and treating it remains difficult because of how complex the disease can be. New findings published March 17th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Tianyu Jiang of Shandong University in Qingdao,…
Katie Bates, Travis Clark Easter Reunion After Cheating Scandal
“Looking back on my childhood and the way that my parents raised me, I can’t think of anything that was negative,” Erin Bates Pain (who joined the fam on May 2, 1991) told People. “Everything, looking back, is really positive,…
