Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After careful deliberation by a brilliant group of students, Jackie and Shadow’s new eaglets have names. Chick 1 will henceforth be known as Sandy and chick 2 is Luna. According to Friends of Big Bear Valley (FOBBV), Sandy was…
Despite being surrounded by a multitude of people, urban birds may be picky about who can approach them, new research suggests. After surveying over 37 city bird species in five European countries, experts found that the avians fled sooner when approached by women than by men. The findings, published in December 2025 in the journal…
Summer is “Go” for launch, and NASA has a universe of ways to help you to jump in, explore, and create! Whether you prefer to spend this season fueling your creativity, going outdoors into nature, or daydreaming about your future, NASA offers ways to take your interests to the next level. Here are some opportunities…
All ESP32 (and some ESP8266) devices can make use of at least one type of mesh network to communicate, peer-to-peer, without the need for a centralized “router.” Others can be used to interface with existing smart homes, communicate over long distances, or take advantage of low-latency data transfer in useful projects that are fun to…
Wild cockatoos don’t rush into unfamiliar food. Faced with something new, they’re often suspicious. But after watching a few birds try it, others quickly start copying. In a study published in PLOS Biology, researchers at the Australian National University tracked more than 700 wild sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney to see how they respond to new…
FILE – An aerial view of the Xochimilcol canals in Mexico City, Feb. 16, 2022. Marco Ugarte/AP FILE – Pedestrians walk past a slightly tilted historic building in downtown Mexico City, June 15, 2016. The city was built on a drained lake bed and many buildings are noticeably tilted, from sinking unevenly into the soft…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) a year, according to new satellite imagery released this week by NASA, making it one of the world’s fastest-subsiding metropolises. One of the world’s most sprawling and populated urban areas, at 3,000 square miles (about 7,800 square kilometers) and some…
While recreational cannabis laws have significantly reduced arrests for cannabis possession and sales, racial disparities in arrests still exist, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and The University of Texas at Austin. The authors suggest that recreational cannabis laws do not fully resolve underlying systemic inequities. Source:…
In this new picture from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of attention. NGC 3137 is located 53 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia (the Air Pump). As a nearby spiral galaxy, this target offers astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the cycle of stellar birth and death,…
May 1, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm ‘Spectacular’ Viking coin hoard is likely the largest in history Archaeologists have uncovered almost 3,000 silver coins so far—and more could come to light By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner Innlandet County Authority Archaeologists are hailing the discovery of a “spectacular” hoard of…
