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In the summer of 1977, New York City was burning. A 25-hour blackout, triggered by lightning striking key transmission lines, led to widespread looting, riots, and more than a thousand fires. That night alone, the fire department battled blazes across Harlem, Brooklyn, and the South Bronx, a shocking surge in a city already averaging four...

(Image credit: BBC) If you’d seen the “Doctor Who” season 2 trailers, you already knew that cartoon character Mr Ring-a-Ding would climb out of a cinema screen like some kind of malevolent Roger Rabbit. As well as being a great visual, it’s a handy metaphor for the show’s newfound disregard for the so-called fourth wall...

A Mars vista captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS) While most people searching for signs of alien life these days might have their eyes on the exoplanet K2-18b, one team of researchers is keeping their sights a little closer to home. Texas A&M researcher Michael Tice and a team of international scientists have...

The next time you remember a chocolate bar in a desk drawer, your brain might not just be recalling it—it could be actively pushing you to seek it out. A recent study published in Nature Metabolism suggests that specific neurons in the hippocampus log the sensory and emotional details of calorie-rich food. In mice, these...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s the middle of dinner service at Bo.lan restaurant in Bangkok and our table for two is packed with all the dishes that make up a traditional Thai meal: salad, a laab of minced grey mullet that smells like nutty, toasted rice kernels; curry, a Southern-style...

It all started with a bang. Well, more precisely, it was a shot—the “shot heard round the world” that began the Revolutionary War. On the night of April 18, 1775—into the early hours of the 19th—Paul Revere rode directly past the site where I stand, looking up at the Minuteman Statue illuminated by spotlights at...

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NASA is signing more countries to its efforts for internationally cooperative exploration of the moon and beyond. Bangladesh is the 54th nation to join the Artemis Accords, and perhaps the first brought into the fold through the efforts of President Trump’s transition team at NASA. Finland, the Accords’ 53rd signatory, joined just one day after...

The smart windows could display flight information and local landmarks. Credit: Zeiss Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 The optical systems company Zeiss has supplied NASA and the ESA with high-grade glass components for years, including lenses for the James Webb Space Telescope and lunar cameras for the Apollo astronauts. For its next generation of...

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the ChatGPT images that have taken over the web for the better part of a week. OpenAI revealed that 130 million ChatGPT users created around 700 million AI images with its new tool. I get it. The service is cool, and the technology is amazing. I...