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Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans

Addressing nutritional deficiencies could improve cognition in people with dementia CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images A personalised programme that combines targeted medical interventions with lifestyle changes seems to improve memory and functioning among people with mild cognitive decline or the…

Watch the Artemis II astronauts have fun with bubbles

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While space exploration is serious and sometimes dangerous scientific work, that does not mean that there is no room for fun. Something as mundane…

Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

When very massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they explode as supernovae, scattering elements like carbon and iron across space. Another, rarer type of explosion happens when two neutron stars, the dense remnants of dead stars, collide. This…

XChat, the standalone app for messaging on X, is available on iOS now

XChat, the standalone app for accessing X’s messaging feature, is available to download now for iOS. X first suggested it would be stripping direct messaging from X in 2025, but at least for now, XChat is available in the original…

Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time

Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day. Microsoft is rolling out some long-awaited changes to Windows Update to users on its Dev and Experimental Windows Insider…

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last decade, The Intercept reported. The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use…

Give Mom Warm Coffee All Year Long With This Ember Smart Mug Deal

The Ember Smart Mug 2 is niche, but it has a loyal following. Even though we think there are better mug warmers on the market, Ember is like Apple AirPods or Kleenex. People want what they want. Right now, for…

Gravity’s strength measured more reliably than ever before

Stephan Schlamminger and his colleague, Vincent Lee, examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant R. Eskalis/NIST For centuries, physicists have been trying to measure the strength of gravity, a number called “big G”. The measurements have…

Honeybees understand basic math | Popular Science

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The brain of a honeybee (Apis mellifera) weighs less than one milligram and contains fewer than one million neurons, but that may be more…

NASA scientist says a mysterious “fifth force” may be hiding in our solar system

Science advances by proposing ideas and then trying to prove them wrong. This process becomes especially challenging when dealing with the Universe on its largest scales. Dark energy and dark matter are among the most difficult concepts to test. Observations…