Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. From butt-loving baboons to peacocking spiders, animals boast an array of flirting techniques. Male frigatebirds attract potential mates by inflating a large, hairless, red…
Cornell University scientists have taken a major step toward developing a safe, reversible, long-acting and 100% effective nonhormonal male contraceptive, considered the holy grail of male contraception. In a proof-of-principle study conducted in mice over six years, the team showed…
Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over its transition to a for-profit company, but today he amended the complaint so that he won’t personally get any of the $150 billion in damages he’s pushing for. The Wall Street…
Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier will “no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content via the Kindle Store,” Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke…
The U.S. government is warning that Iran-backed hackers are escalating their tactics by targeting American critical infrastructure systems with the aim of causing disruption. In a joint advisory published Tuesday, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the U.S. cybersecurity agency…
According to the space agency, the astronauts took turns photographing this region of the moon during the seven-hour approach, working in pairs. At their closest point to the surface, about 6,550 km, the moon looked to the naked eye like…
Novel approaches are edging us closer to relieving the agonising pain of migraines for all affected Sergey Khakimullin/Getty Images One-third of people with migraines don’t respond to current treatments, but harnessing the brain’s cleaning system could open up a new…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 2023, the U.S. government approved the sale of “lab-grown” chicken after it passed food safety tests. Lab-grown meat, also called “cultivated” or “cultured”…
Researchers at the University of California San Diego report that a weeklong program combining meditation and other mind-body techniques can quickly produce measurable changes in both brain activity and blood biology. The study found that these practices activated natural pathways…
Spotify’s Prompted Playlist tool now works for podcasts, after earlier this year. As the name suggests, this is an AI thing. It lets users use natural language, or prompts, to describe what they’re looking for in a playlist and the…
The Open Championship’s final round may be brought forward in an “attempt to avoid a clash” with the World Cup final this summer. Golf’s oldest major, which is being played at Royal Birkdale in Southport, finishes on Sunday, 19 July,…
Fighting resumed in Kidal on Sunday, but shortly afterwards, FLA spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane said an agreement had been reached between them and the Russian Africa Corps with a “a view to ensuring their secure withdrawal from the fighting”. Source…
The Reserve Bank of India has withdrawn the banking permit granted to Paytm Payments Bank, effective 24 April 2026. As a result, Paytm Payments Bank must immediately cease carrying on the business of “banking” as set out in Section 5(b),…
