Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting enthusiasts in England discovered a rare hoard of early medieval Anglo-Saxon coins in the parish of Bickmarsh, Worcestershire. Members of Go Detecting…
Pixel phones aren’t exactly known for being adventurous. Google mainly sticks with clean designs and simple features—that’s part of the appeal. However, it did once experiment with nifty touch-less gestures. Now you can bring them back to any Android phone. The Pixel 4 launched in 2020, and it was one of the more forgettable phones…
Simultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds. The review of scientific literature considers how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in plastic, coupled with climate change’s effects, such as heat…
Black truffles aren’t native to Australia, but since the first oaks and hazelnuts were planted in the 1990s, the local industry has flourished, becoming the largest producer outside Europe. Now, scientists have identified the environmental factors which appear to have contributed to that success. Many types of fungi produce truffles, a fruiting body that grows…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The first quarter moon shines over the city of Yorba Linda, California in March 2026. | Credit: Zachary Cooper Astrophotographer Zachary Cooper created this magnificent view of March’s first quarter moon, using clever editing to reveal dramatic detail…
A detector buried deep in Antarctic ice has captured the first experimental evidence of a predicted but never-before-seen phenomenon: radio pulses generated when high-energy cosmic rays slam into the ice sheet and trigger particle cascades inside it. Through results published in Physical Review Letters, astronomers of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) Collaboration have validated a…
Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure. You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new hardware. But in the world of robotics, swapping an old robotic arm for a newer model has meant setting everything up from scratch. To fix that, a team…
There’s a good chance that if you own a Raspberry Pi or two, you’re probably also the owner of a 3D printer, or know how to get access to one through a local print farm or a friend. If one of your Pi projects includes a RetroPie (or its alternatives) then you can do something…
More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism — a new survey finds. The results hint that a large, and potentially growing, number of people are questioning scientific evidence. The survey, of more than 16,000 people…
Quartz crystals are difficult to knap due to size, hardness, and crystalline structure, making them a “low-quality” raw material. However, the Clovis people of North America sometimes made points and other tools from this material despite its drawbacks. To determine whether the quartz crystal points of the Clovis were functionally comparable to those made from…
