Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A pair of brothers in the U.K. have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest time solving a four-by-four Rubik’s Cube with a robot. Their DIY machine, which the brothers call The Revenger, completed the puzzle in…
Researchers have developed a technology to invisibly transmit information disguised as background thermal radiation. Using a phenomenon called “negative light,” they transferred 100 kilobits of data per second in a way that was completely undetectable to outside observers. Most methods for concealing data during transfer involve hiding it among other data or encrypting it in…
Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument collects the mid-infrared light emitted by the warm dust speckled through the galaxy’s clouds, tracing the clumps and strands of dusty gas….
Several states in the Great Lakes region—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania—border the five Great Lakes and contain many inland lakes. The eight Great Lake states (the aforementioned, plus Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York) collectively share the largest freshwater system in the world. The Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) hold about 20…
Today, Google Maps announced several upgrades that will fundamentally change how we use maps. And while some of that revolves around AI, what caught my attention is the biggest visual update “in over a decade.” It’s called Immersive Navigation, and the 3D effects look pretty amazing. We’ve all had frustrating moments when we miss a…
March 12, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm ‘Like knives inside my body’: How a new ultrasound simulator could help doctors better diagnose endometriosis A company that makes surgical simulators released a tool to train clinicians to diagnose a deep form of endometriosis By Tanya Lewis edited by Claire Cameron “To me…
The Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample, talks to Madeleine Finlay about three eye-catching science stories from the week, including a study that explores the link between exercise and brain health. Also on the agenda: the discovery that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound and what this could mean for their conservation, and new research examining how…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA The first mission of Northrop Grumman’s big new cargo spacecraft is nearly over. That freighter, known as Cygnus XL, left the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 12), ending a nearly six-month orbital stay…
A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery—how “selfish chromosomes” cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that rogue chromosomes hijack the Overdrive (Ovd) gene to destroy rival sperm. Source: Read Full Article
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 10, March 2026. <br/>SignificancePointed objects such as stingers, horns, and teeth have been observed to exhibit a paraboloid geometry at the tip. Interestingly, this tip geometry is not exclusive to biological structures; it is also found in abiotic forms as disparate as … Source: Read…
