The supreme court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an ageing pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the…
By Marta Serafinko April 22 (Reuters) – On the tourist-packed Rock of Gibraltar, one of the most common sights is monkeys begging for food – and sometimes stealing sweet and salty snacks from unsuspecting visitors. Scientists now have documented an unusual behaviour among these macaques that may help them ward off a bellyache from all…
One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This “self-coupling” could help explain the evolution of the early universe and the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. To try to shed light on this fundamental interaction, the ATLAS Collaboration has recently studied one of…
Ace in action during a match in December 2025 Sony AI Ace, an autonomous robot powered by AI, cutting-edge sensors and an extremely dexterous arm with eight joints, has played competition-rule table tennis and beaten elite human competitors. The robot is the first machine to excel at the sport. It was the cerebral game of…
A new approach Supercomputer simulations reveal the effect of the strong nuclear force on the muon’s magnetism. Credit: University of Wuppertal Supercomputer simulations reveal the effect of the strong nuclear force on the muon’s magnetism. Credit: University of Wuppertal This latest measurement focuses on strong force effects, specifically the “hadronic vacuum polarization,” which arises as…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages written on it. Amid the ruins of an ancient city roughly 120 miles south of Cairo, archaeologists have identified the first Greco-Roman…
A section of Mars is covered in a surprising number of features that look like clumps of giant, fossilized reptile scales, new photos reveal. But don’t be alarmed — the strange structures did not originate from monstrous aliens. Instead, they may have ties to ancient water. NASA‘s Curiosity rover snapped the photos of the peculiar…
Are you an NFL fan patiently awaiting the start of the new season or getting amped about the NFL draft? Do you also love power tools? If so, you’ll be happy to hear that Lowe’s just dropped some awesome NFL-themed Kobalt Mini Toolboxes, but they’re selling out fast. Lowe’s in-house tool brand, Kobalt, is a…
The paleolake Hula was a popular destination for early humans living in and around northern Israel 800,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. Archeologists believe communities would have assembled near its shores to forge tools and butcher ancient elephants. Now, researchers writing in Quaternary Science Review suggest the availability of driftwood (and reliance on fire)…
More Information The U.S. power grid was not designed for this moment, when large industrial loads, data centers, renewable buildout, and extreme weather are colliding at scale. Incremental transmission upgrades may no longer be enough to maintain reliability, affordability, and flexibility across regions. This white paper invites engineers, planners, utilities, and policymakers to step back and…
