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Our extinct Australopithecus relatives may have had difficult births

Illustration of a female Australopithecus sediba carrying an infant JOHN BAVARO FINE ART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Childbirth was difficult and dangerous for our ape-like ancestors, much as it is for women today. A new study of the pelvises of Australopithecus suggests…

How to clean your car like a professional detailer

Sign Up For Goods Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. There’s a gap between cars that have been washed and a ride that’s actually clean. A trip through an automatic car wash removes surface crud but does nothing about brake…

Study finds two types of colon polyps can raise bowel cancer risk fivefold

Researchers from Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre have identified an important connection between two common types of bowel polyps and a greater risk of cancer. Their findings appear in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CGH). Bowel cancer, also…

You’ll now have to fork out for an additional subscription if you want to watch 4K content on Prime Video

Amazon is the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription and locking 4K UHD streaming behind this new tier. Starting April 10 for US customers, a rebranded Prime Video Ultra subscription will cost $5 per month, up from $3 per…

Amazon Prime Video’s ad-free plan is getting a price hike

The price increase comes two years after Amazon switched all users on Prime Video — which comes as a perk with a standard Amazon Prime subscription — to an ad-supported plan and began charging extra for commercial-free streams. Now, the…

The FBI is investigating malware hidden inside games hosted on Steam

The FBI is investigating a hacker suspected of publishing several video games laced with malware on the popular PC games store Steam, the agency said Friday.  In its announcement looking for victims who may have been infected, the FBI listed…

Google’s AI Searches Love to Refer You Back to Google

Google seems to have a Google addiction. If you click on a hyperlink in Google’s chatbot-style search tool, AI Mode, you are likely to be looped into another Google search, according to a new study from SE Ranking, a search…

Why are we so suspicious of do-gooders?

In an episode of Friends, Phoebe (left) and Joey get into a deep philosophical debate Photo 12 / Alamy If you are a person of a certain age, you might remember an episode of Friends in which aspiring actor Joey Tribbiani…

Alpine glacier holds history dating back to the Romans. And it’s melting—fast.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Deep inside the frozen Eastern Alps, the Weißseespitze ice cap (pronounced VICE-zay-shpitt-suh) sits at almost 11,482 feet (3,500 meters) above sea level. Overlooking the…

Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold

Gold cannot form until certain unstable atomic nuclei break apart. Exactly how those nuclear transformations unfold has long been difficult to determine. Now, nuclear physicists at the University of Tennessee (UT) report three discoveries in a single study that clarify…