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Neutrinos fill the universe, but you wouldn’t know that with your eyes. These subatomic particles are small—so small that physicists once thought they had no mass at all—and they have no electric charge. Even though trillions of neutrinos enter your body every second, the vast majority of them pass through without a trace. Yet astronomers...

Google just unveiled the Pixel Fold, its first-ever foldable smartphone that should give Samsung a run for the money, at least in the markets where the Pixel handset is available. However, the first round of reviews also brought forward an unexpected problem that made me lose interest in the Pixel Fold. It turns out the...

The ambitious infrastructure plan aims to provide over 24 million Americans with reliable, high-speed internet by the decade’s end. By Andrew Paul | Published Jun 27, 2023 12:00 PM EDT Almost $42 billion will be doled out to US states and territories over the next few years. Deposit Photos President Biden announced on Monday apportioning...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station just achieved a milestone in water recycling that could prove crucial to expanding human presence in the solar system—if you can stomach it. According to an announcement from NASA last week, the space station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) has accomplished the “significant goal” of recovering nearly...

Home News Science & Astronomy A vibrant aurora display during a geomagnetic storm. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Earth’s thermosphere recently hit a near 20-year temperature peak after soaking up energy from geomagnetic storms that bashed Earth this year. The temperature in the second-highest layer of the atmosphere will likely continue to climb over the next few years as...

NASA’s most advanced spacecraft for solar exploration just made another close flyby of the sun.  The Parker Solar Probe conducted its 16th perihelion pass on Thursday morning (June 22), cruising through the sun’s superhot outer atmosphere, called the corona.  As the spacecraft flies through the corona’s blazing plasma, where temperatures can climb above 1.8 million...

Andre Rucker for Popular Science Allow us to pump you up with these muscle science stories. By Annie Colbert | Published Jun 22, 2023 9:27 PM EDT “I AM HANS. And I am Franz. And we want to pump you up.”  Yes, that’s a three-decade-old reference to a Saturday Night Live sketch. I process most...

Home News Science & Astronomy An amazing new video demonstrates how Earth’s tilt changes throughout the year, causing days to lengthen and shorten from north to south as the planet orbits the sun. The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing the longest day of the year as our planet reached the moment of the summer solstice today,...

TravelAncient Roman elites marveled at an astronomical alignment from this cavern on Italy’s coast. Now you can too. Published June 20, 2023 8 min read When summer arrives, celebrations of the solstice happen all over the world. In Italy, la dolce vita unfolds in Sperlonga, between Rome and Naples, in the middle of a coastal...

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