Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is hitting the road—or tracks. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is heading out on its first coast-to-coast steam tour to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary. The first leg begins on March…
The upcoming Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix tournaments, which were due to take place in April, are set to be cancelled, according to media reports. A question mark has been hanging over both races ever since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation against Iran was launched on February 28. The conflict has brought…
Olympic snowboarder Kaillie Humphries gifted President Donald Trump her Order of Ikkos medal during a White House Women’s History Month event March 12. Humphries cried as she said the reason behind her decision to honor the president in that manner was to recognize his work to protect women’s sports for biological females. Trump issued an…
Jamison HensleyMar 13, 2026, 12:36 PM ET Close Jamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018, and he authored…
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Astronomers have spotted a colossal explosion coming from a pair of merging neutron stars lurking within the remnants of an ancient galaxy pileup. The unexpected “collision within a collision” could help answer “not one, but two” major astrophysics questions, the researchers claim. In a new study, published March 10 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an…
LONDON — Over six decades of “Doctor Who,” the intergalactic adventurer’s adversaries have included evil robots, rampaging Yeti — and the BBC, which erased many early episodes of the now-iconic sci-fi TV series. A film charity announced Friday that it has found two previously lost 1960s episodes in film cans wrapped in plastic bags among…
Yesterday, Senate Democrats, with the exception of John Fetterman, again voted to block full funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Right around that same time there were two terrorist attacks, and one of them was at a synagogue in the state of Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin (of “Seditious Six” notoriety), who is now…
Gonzalo Quesada says Wales “must win” when they face his Italy side in the Six Nations finale in Cardiff on Saturday. Wales have lost their past 15 matches in the tournament since beating the Azzurri in March 2023 in Rome and have not won a Six Nations home fixture in more than four years. Advertisement…
Stentor coeruleus is a single-celled organism with unexpected abilities MELBA PHOTO AGENCY / Alamy A simple unicellular organism with no brain or neurons seems capable of an advanced form of learning. The simplest form of learning, known as habituation, is gradually reducing how much you respond to a repeated, harmless stimulus, like a smell or…
