Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Whether youâre pro-Daylight Savings or pro-Standard Time, the science is clear: Switching between the two every year is terrible for human health. So why havenât we stuck with one system all year? The answer is both scientific AND political….
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Heeding legitimate signs is always important, but between May 1st and October 15 at Yellowstone National Park it will be particularly significant. These signs will help visitors avoid encounters with the friend-shaped but not-too-friendly member of the local fauna….
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Something strange is happening underneath Area 51. According to United States Geological Survey data earlier this week, over 100 people have reported at least 17 earthquakes within the span of only 24 hours not far from the infamous, highly…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. After careful deliberation by a brilliant group of students, Jackie and Shadowâs 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…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A YouTuber armed with a 1988 Ford Festiva and a workshop full of lasers may have created the worldâs thinnest street-legal carâ-though it required some serious work to get it there. Tyler Fever, who runs the YouTube channel Prop…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a world first, Appleâs commercially lackluster Vision Pro virtual reality headset was successfully used to help perform a cataract surgery. New England-based surgeon Dr. Eric Rosenberg of SightMD claims he used the $3,499 device alongside a custom-built app…
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Is there any real solution to the nightmare of online password management in an era of increasingly clever hacks, scams, and identity theft? Cybersecurity engineers at Texas A&M University think so, and according to their recent findings published in…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a world drowning in notifications and devices that want to be everything all at once, calculator giant Texas Instruments (TI) is going back to basics. This week, the company unveiled the TI-84 Evo, its most powerful graphing calculator…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Scorpions are optimized hunters, whose skills have been honed through millions of years of evolution. An armored exoskeleton, strong pincers, a poisonous stingerâalmost everything about their anatomy aids in either hunting insects, small mammals, and reptiles, or defending themselves…
