2 ways of knowing if there are PFAS in your drinking water
Ever since the US started churning out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the 1940s, these long-lived toxic chemicals have been accumulating everywhere humans...
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We still don’t know how animals evolved to fly
Dinosaur Mysteries digs into the secretive side of the “terrible lizards” and all the questions that keep paleontologists up at night....
AI companies eye fossil fuels to meet booming energy demand
It takes massive amounts of energy to power the data center brains of popular artificial intelligence models. That demand is...
Boom Supersonic’s prototype jet sets off on first flight
The race to reboot commercial supersonic travel is well underway, and one company just took a major step forward. On...
Fakes, rumors, and scams: PopSci’s fall issue is unreal
THIS IS THE REAL ANNIE COLBERT writing to you, not an AI trained on thousands of random tweets, hours of...
These birds appear to be signaling ‘after you’
Non-verbal gestures are an integral part of how humans and some other organisms communicate, as with various sign languages and...
It’s time to save $200 on Garmin’s best smartwatch at Amazon
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Your ‘healing’ crystals might not even be crystals
NOT LONG AFTER Malika Mathis opened the shipment of clear quartz towers she’d purchased from a dealer in China, she...
Your ‘healing’ crystals might not even be crystals
NOT LONG AFTER Malika Mathis opened the shipment of clear quartz towers she’d purchased from a dealer in China, she...
Why a mysterious ninth planet might be lurking beyond Pluto
Our understanding of the solar system is a work in progress. Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet was just one...
This wormy robot can wriggle its way around a jet engine
A new wormy robot could help with jet engine inspections at GE Aerospace, according to an announcement this week. Sensiworm,...
Drones offer a glimpse inside Fukushima nuclear reactor 13 years after disaster
A team of miniature drones recently entered the radioactive ruins of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors in an attempt to...
