There is a famous European folk story about a young chicken who somehow gets it into his head that the sky is falling and therefore the world is about to end. It is a tale of hysteria and paranoia. But the idea of bizarre things falling from the heavens isContinue Reading
The paint relies on passive cooling through water evaporation. Credit: Deposit Photos / Kevin Brine Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Buildings coated in a cement-based paint that “sweats” could help keep communities cool during the hottest days of the year. TheContinue Reading
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of theContinue Reading
For a nation on edge, a weekend of patriotic celebration and widespread free-speech participation brought new signs of democracy’s strength – as well as its vulnerability. The organizers of Saturday’s coast-to-coast “No Kings” demonstrations had sought to counter President Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, and serve up a splitContinue Reading
Captured and jailed in 2011, Joaquin Guzmán, aka “El Chapo,” escaped in a laundry basket, only to be arrested and returned to custody three years later, when he disappeared again, this time through a tunnel. Captured yet again in 2016, he was extradited to the United States in 2017. ConvictedContinue Reading
Big and Small Underwater Faces — 3rd Place. Trips to the Antarctic Peninsula always yield amazing encounters with leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx). Boldly approaching me and baring his teeth, this individual was keen to point out that this part of Antarctica was his territory. This picture was shot at dusk,Continue Reading
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks. Nearly 1 million books published as early as the 15th century – and in 254 languages – are part ofContinue Reading
Nearly all the members of a board overseeing the prestigious Fulbright scholarships resigned Wednesday in protest of what they call the Trump administration’s meddling with the selection of award recipients for the international exchange program. A statement published online by board members said the administration usurped the board’s authority byContinue Reading
What a year 1965 was. America’s Civil Rights campaigns intensified while the Vietnam War’s escalation accelerated. Notable people, from Sir Winston Churchill to Malcolm X, breathed their last, and a deadly outbreak of tornadoes ravaged the Midwest. However, it wasn’t all doom and gloom that year, which also saw someContinue Reading
The fracture is shown in various views. The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone. Credit: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tipsContinue Reading
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