Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Researchers studying copulation in mayflies pulled off a stunt worthy of the naughtiest ancient Greek myths. Just like Hephaestus used an unbreakable net to…
Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons mostly include particles that carry forces, such as photons, while fermions make up ordinary matter, including electrons, protons, and neutrons. That simple…
The flipside of realizing a game you didn’t have high expectations for turning out to be great is playing one you’d been looking forward to that didn’t quite hit the mark. Motorslice — from the two-person team at Regular Studio…
Amazon Prime Video is joining Netflix and Disney Plus in adding a vertical feed of videos to its streaming app. The new “Clips” feed will offer a stream of short-form videos from shows and movies, with options to jump into…
As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went…
Started more than 50 years ago, data storage company Western Digital is one of the world’s largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, and produces solid-state drives (SSDs) and flash memory devices. Western Digital makes all the essentials for home office…
Archival imagery from the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. The yellow box contains an enlarged area of the original photo in which three lights are visible above the lunar terrain US Department of Defense The US Department of Defense…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Renewable energy is the cornerstone of any sustainable society, but why limit your options to wind or solar installations? In the United States alone,…
For decades, scientists believed they understood one of the body’s key fat-burning proteins. Known as hormone-sensitive lipase, or HSL, the enzyme was thought to work mainly as the body’s emergency fuel switch, helping release stored fat when energy runs low….
Primakov/Shutterstock Discord is recovering following a brief outage that saw some users unable to use the popular chat app. At 3:08PM ET, the company said it had begun investigating an issue with…
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observed major weapons tests and called for the military’s “deadly and destructive offensive posture” to be bolstered, state media reported Friday, as South Korea announced it would drastically boost its drone…
As we officially move into the MLB 2026 season’s second half, we notice a couple of interesting developments brewing across the league. One team that had been coasting to what looked to be an easy division title appears to be…
