Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Whether you’re pro-Daylight Savings or pro-Standard Time, the science is clear: Switching between the two every year is terrible for human health. So why haven’t we stuck with one system all year? The answer is both scientific AND political….
There have now been at least a couple of “No Kings” rallies around the country, which is when a bunch of people who likely applauded when Biden announced that he’d decreed a new constitutional amendment out of whole cloth take to the streets to denounce authoritarianism. And of course…
Home Assistant is one of the most powerful smart home platforms around, but even Home Assistant has its limitations. That’s exactly what the Home Assistant Community Store aims to solve, and it does a killer job at making your Home Assistant installation much more capable. Home Assistant doesn’t have all the plugins or add-ons you…
Late night “comedy” hosts have been busy circling the Free Speech wagons around Jimmy Kimmel during his spat with President Trump. They rush to their censorship and First Amendment fainting couches whenever somebody says ABC should hold Kimmel accountable for the assassination “jokes” he makes about Donald and Melania Trump (oh, sorry, we’re supposed…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 25 Starlink satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 26, 2026. It was SpaceX’s 50th launch of the year. | Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will launch 45 satellites to orbit from…
Just a couple of years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was applauding the Biden administration for getting a planned JetBlue and Spirit Air merger blocked. You’ll notice in this March of 2024 post that Warren takes credit for that, and also gives plenty of applause to the Biden DOJ and Pete Buttigieg’s Transportation Department for…
Our president is a genuinely funny man. At a time when late-night comedians have been replaced with political activists, it’s refreshing to see the Comedian-In-Chief often taking the opportunity to ham it up for the camera. His latest thoughts on breaking a decades-long tradition of presidential dog ownership are…
On a fateful day 210 million years ago, two crocodile cousins about the size of jackals stood side-by-side amid the low ferns of a humid riverbank that would one day become northern New Mexico. One of the crocs, Hesperosuchus agilis, had a long snout, large back legs, and smaller, thinner arms. A land dweller, Hesperosuchus…
New video footage released Thursday night by the F.B.I. of the apparent assassination attempt on President Tump at the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner helps clarify how the episode unfolded by more clearly showing the gunman’s actions and the responses of Secret Service officers. A frame-by-frame assessment of the footage — combined with…
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a popular general-purpose microcontroller among hobbyists, but it isn’t the only RP2040 board out there. If you have a specific job in mind, it is worth checking out the alternatives—you may save yourself some work. Here are five options to consider for your next DIY project. The Seed Studio XIAO…
