Your brain has a neurological trick for drowning out chaos olaser/Getty Images Recently, I was scrolling TikTok when my brain failed me. I watched a video of Donald Trump berating CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins for “not smiling”, after she questioned…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The James Bond films are famous for their very cool—and usually very absurd—spy gadgetry. In reality, however, espionage has always been more about lowkey…
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new way to estimate when a person is likely to start showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease using just one blood test. In a study published Feb. 19…
AirTags are basically an essential accessory for iPhone users who want to keep track of things like their keys, wallet and backpack. While it’s easy enough to replace the battery in both versions of the AirTag, you may not want…
Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around, trying to follow the threads of conversation through garbled email threads and…
AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flow through a dedicated keyboard. On…
NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April. Although March 6 had been tentatively planned as the launch date, the US space agency revealed that a…
An image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope EHT Collaboration At the centre of our galaxy lies a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* – but one group of researchers…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In March 1888, a deadly blizzard clobbered New York City. The snow paralyzed the city—trains stood still for days, telegraph services stopped functioning, and…
As the population grows older and diabetes becomes more common, chronic wounds are affecting more people than ever. These slow healing injuries significantly raise the risk of infection, tissue damage, and amputation. Researchers at UC Riverside have developed a new…
The Angels announced a series of moves before Sunday’s matchup against the Royals, the most notable of which was designating closer Jordan Romano for assignment. The club selected left-hander Joey Lucchesi to take his spot. Right-hander Shaun Anderson was also…
The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting suspect reportedly wrote a chilling anti-Trump manifesto in which he assails the president as a “traitor” and “pedophile” and details his desire to kill administration officials. Alleged gunman Cole Tomas Allen, 31, sent…
Four days ago, Amazon made a move that sent a signal across the AI industry. Now Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) has answered with something even larger. And the company at the center of both bets — Anthropic — is one…
