A discarded piece of a SpaceX rocket carelessly left adrift in space will likely crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. The renegade rocket poses no risk to the moon or any working spacecraft, the report stresses. However, the collision — which is predicted to occur Aug. 5 on the border of…
Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: Your browser does not support the audio element. As the four Artemis II astronauts traveled on a 694,481-mile journey around the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft provided them with all the essentials for deep space life, including daily exercise. The crew used an exercise device called the flywheel throughout their mission to maintain their…
Navigation is not the only thing you can do with Google Maps. In fact, you can even travel between different points in time! Maps is known for having hidden gems that you can access daily, but they come in clutch when you need them. Using these features, you can plan upcoming trips and find places…
Salmonella, a bacterium associated with chicken and other food birds, is already a common concern in poultry care, and consumers are generally educated on how to safely handle poultry products at home. Although unpleasant, a Salmonella infection usually passes after a couple of days and only requires managing symptoms, like staying hydrated after bouts of…
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of Oklahoma suggests decaying dark matter could have triggered the rapid collapse of early gas clouds, helping supermassive black holes form far sooner than current theories allow. Aggarwal et al. show that the energy released from dark matter…
April 29, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm A giant hailstorm just killed an emu at a Missouri zoo A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of year, one expert says By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron An example of large…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace-ArianeGroup/Optique Video du CSG-P. Piron Europe’s most powerful rocket will roar into action early Thursday morning (April 30), and you can watch the action live. An Ariane 6 heavy lifter topped with 32 Amazon Leo satellites is…
New research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, published in Nature Microbiology, reveals that when microbes live together, they can sense one another and actively reduce competition by shifting toward different roles instead of all doing the same thing. It shows that microbes do not just respond to their environment, they respond to each other….
Even before the Trump administration went to war against DEI and attempts to address historical discrimination, diversity efforts in the US were controversial. A pivotal moment came in 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that race-based affirmative action programs violated the Constitution. The decision partly rested on universities’ inability to clearly measure the benefits of…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a world drowning in notifications and devices that want to be everything all at once, calculator giant Texas Instruments (TI) is going back to basics. This week, the company unveiled the TI-84 Evo, its most powerful graphing calculator…
