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These Sonos Over-Ear Headphones Are $100 Off

If your house is already lined with Sonos products, you may want a pair of over-ear headphones that know how to play nice with your other speakers. As it turns out, Sonos actually makes a pair of over-ear headphones, the…

Your partner may wake you up six times a night – but does it matter?

Duvet hogging can take its toll on a relationship – and your night’s sleep, but you may not be aware of it come morning Shutterstock/Vasylchenko Nikita Sleeping with a partner leads to more overnight wake-ups than sleeping alone. Often, these…

Ireland’s 250-million-year-old gray spot | Popular Science

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Happy St. Patrick’s Day—from space. While Ireland’s natural landscape is known for every shade of green imaginable, a different color dominates one part of…

Scientists finally reveal how this Alzheimer’s drug really works

Lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, is a monoclonal antibody treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that targets and removes harmful amyloid plaques while slowing cognitive decline. Scientists from VIB and KU Leuven have now uncovered exactly how it works. Their research shows that…

Senators tell ByteDance to shut down Seedance 2.0 AI video app ‘immediately’

After ByteDance suspended the global rollout of its new Seedance 2.0 AI video generator on the weekend, US senators have now told the company to “immediately shut down” the app. “Seedance 2.0 poses a direct threat to the American intellectual…

Hands on with Aqara’s new Matter-compatible camera

The first Matter camera is here — sort of. Camera support came to the smart home standard last year, and Aqara’s Camera Hub G350 is the first to support it. The G350, which was announced at CES, launched this week…

Picsart now allows creators to ‘hire’ AI assistants through agent marketplace

The AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching an AI agent marketplace, allowing creators to “hire” AI assistants to help them with specific tasks, like resizing and remixing social content, or editing product photos on Shopify. With over 130 million worldwide…

H&R Block Coupon: 25% Off DIY + Tax Pro Assist

As they say, the only things you can’t escape in life are death and taxes. Doing your own taxes has only gotten easier over the years but it’s still plenty confusing, especially with both federal and state rules and rates…

Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together

J R Eyerman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock What is now? The nature of the ever-changing present moment has always fascinated me, because there is a paradox at its heart. From a personal perspective, the present is everything: it is the only…

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) have a really bad reputation. The ocean’s bad boys are responsible for at least 100 unprovoked attacks on humans, 27…