When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the TESS exoplanet hunter detecting close-in planets around a distant star. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have discovered over 100 new worlds beyond the solar system hiding in data collected by NASA’s…
Scientists at McMaster University have uncovered new evidence that the fungus causing white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease affecting bats, may be more widespread in Western Canada than existing testing methods reveal. In their paper published in the Journal of Fungi, the researchers call for improved ways to detect the fungus, known as Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd),…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A new optical illusion excellently illustrates just how finicky our eyes are when it comes to perceiving colors. Unfortunately, staring at it too long with a friend may kick off an argument much like The Dress did in 2015….
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to interview local subject matter experts on Friday, March 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ahead of the agency sending astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years with the Artemis II flight test. NASA teams are gearing up for…
The generative AI models powering ChatGPT, Copilot Gemini, and other assistants were created with mountains of training data. Now, Microsoft will start using interactions with GitHub Copilot as another source of that information, unless you specifically opt out of the collection. GitHub, the popular coding platform owned by Microsoft, announced today that interactions with GitHub…
Early humans in Europe weren’t the only ones moving across the landscape. Dogs were traveling with them. In the largest study of its kind, published in Nature, researchers found that dogs were present in Europe more than 14,000 years ago, well before farming began. Instead of being replaced by new human populations, these early dogs…
March 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA releases stunning new Saturn images—and the gas giant has never looked so good New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Side-by-side views of…
Stumpy lives again. Clones of the scraggly, beloved cherry blossom tree felled two years ago in the nation’s capital have flowered for the first time this spring, reaching what federal officials described Wednesday as a “pinnacle achievement.” The National Arboretum said in a statement that the plant material used to propagate the Yoshino cherry clones…
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Stumpy lives again. Clones of the scraggly, beloved cherry blossom tree felled two years ago in the nation’s capital have flowered for the first time this spring, reaching what federal officials described Wednesday as a “pinnacle achievement.” The U.S. National Arboretum said in a statement that the plant material used to propagate the Yoshino cherry…
