One librarian estimated as much as 15 percent of their reference requests are AI-generated. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Generative artificial intelligence continues to have a problem with hallucinations. Although many responses to user queries are largely accurate,Continue Reading
The US raised over 200 million farm turkeys in 2024. Credit: Deposit Photos / Eliza Viktoria Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Tracking turkeys is tough work. More specifically, it’s difficult to maintain a watchful eye on the farming industry’s millions ofContinue Reading
Eastern hellbenders live under freshwater river rocks. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis) isn’t nearly as fearsome as its name implies. They’re actually somewhat cute, if you can get past the salamander’s slimy,Continue Reading
The Battle of Culloden effectively ended the Jacobite rising of 1745. Credit: Andy Jepson / University of Glasgow Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from oneContinue Reading
Rogue planets may have more in common with stars like our sun than astronomers realized. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dustContinue Reading
The final LTV design may—or may not—look like the current batch of terrestrial candidates. Credit: Felix and Paul Studios Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. With about two-and-a-half years to go until a planned crewed-mission to the moon, NASA is still decidingContinue Reading
Researchers have found the first genetic marker for HCM in a dog. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. “Man’s best friend” is proving to be helpful for studying a deadly heart mutation. A team at North Carolina State UniversityContinue Reading
A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material. Credit: NASA / Zia Rahman Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Asteroids may be wondrous windows into the history of the cosmos, but the unfortunateContinue Reading
Linalool is often found in perfumes and cleaning products. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Corn really likes its space–so much so that it has a unique way of letting its fellow crops know if the field is gettingContinue Reading
Researchers found nine superbug variants present in many of the 44 flights they analyzed. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Airplane bathrooms aren’t exactly the most pleasant, comfortable, or even hygienic experiences. But their sheer number of daily occupantsContinue Reading
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