Keeping you sharp may be an unexpected, but welcome, side effect of vaccines Jozef Polc / Alamy There is growing evidence that ongoing inflammation in various parts of the body might trigger Alzheimer’s disease. It will take many years for…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. States have a surprising number of official symbols. While most people would expect them to have an official motto, seal, and flag, there can…
For many years, nuclear physicists believed that “Islands of Inversion” were found mainly in isotopes packed with extra neutrons. These unusual regions of the nuclear chart are places where the normal structure of atomic nuclei suddenly stops following the expected…
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects’ orbit around the sun, according to new research. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said…
The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn’t do much — couldn’t do anything, really — but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed uncannily aware…
While Washington’s breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan coalition of thinkers has assembled something the government has so far declined to produce: a framework for what responsible AI development should…
The very existence of left-handedness seems to defy Darwin. According to the theory of evolution by natural selection (in very simplified terms), a species should retain the characteristics necessary for survival and reproduction and discard those that are not very…
NASA gave the Didymos system a nudge Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In February, Tracie Young, director of the Raven Ridge Wildlife Center in Pennsylvania, received an unforgettable phone call. A game warden asked if the…
People who reported using a smartphone while sitting on the toilet were more likely to have hemorrhoids than those who did not use their phones in the bathroom. The finding comes from a new study led by Chethan Ramprasad of…
The Colorado Avalanche have a chance to lock up home-ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Tuesday. Per the NHL, the Avalanche have two chances to clinch the 2025-26 Presidents’ Trophy when they take on the St. Louis Blues….
But another fan, Courtney, said: “I bought my ticket in the PayPal pre-sale three or four days ago. I had looked at flights and accommodation, but my friend, she’s been a big Kanye West fan since she was about 13,…
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…
