YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app. Step, which raised half a billion in funding and has grown to over 7 million users, offers financial services geared toward Gen…
While testing printers usually isn’t that exciting, sometimes I find an offering that’s almost too good to be true. You can scoop up our favorite printer, the Epson ET-2980, from Best Buy for just $220, a $100 markdown from the…
Cognitive training could arm the brain against the effects of dementia Gary Burchell/Getty Images Cognitive “speed training” can reduce the risk of a dementia diagnosis by 25 per cent – that’s according to results from the world’s first randomised controlled…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Archaeologists have spent years puzzling over evidence of severed head rituals among Iron Age communities in the northeast Iberian Peninsula. Multiple groups of the…
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, working with international collaborators, have identified a crucial process that shapes how DNA behaves as it moves through nanoscale pores. This process is fundamental to many biological activities and to fast-growing DNA sensing technologies….
At this point, you can find discounts on AirTags fairly often but if you want to spend as little as possible, it’s worth waiting for a discount like this. A four-pack of the first-gen Bluetooth trackers is on sale for…
Live Nation executives have reportedly sidestepped the Justice Department’s antitrust division to negotiate directly with more sympathetic senior officials in the hopes of avoiding a monopoly trial. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Semafor reports that some talks have excluded…
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an…
Jim Lockhart, from Boston: Did you travel to get here today? Yeah, we came in early on Friday morning. Planes, trains, and automobiles from Logan Airport. And where are you staying? The Intercontinental, right in San Fran, downtown. Beautiful. I’m…
A site on Isbjørne Island where Palaeo-Inuit people erected a circular tent Matthew Walls, Mari Kleist, Pauline Knudsen Humans were voyaging to remote islands off the north-west coast of Greenland 4500 years ago. This required them to cross over 50…
The U.S. Energy Department has unveiled plans to loan as much as 10 million barrels of crude oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) located in Bryan Mound. The department is set to accept proposals from interested companies until 11 a.m. Central Time on…
Image Credit: A24 Leave it to A24 to roll out another star-studded release. The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is now in theaters, blending romance, dark comedy and psychological tension. Despite its title, the film leans into both humor…
President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon had been…
