Stas Malyarevsky/Shutterstock If you tried to use YouTube early Friday morning, you might have been among the many that found themselves struggling to get videos to load. Reports of YouTube being down flooded Downdetector around that time, with a peak of over 1,300 reports popping up before 9:00 a.m. ET.Continue Reading
The Great Depression was one of the darkest chapters in American history. Millions of people lost jobs, homes, and savings; breadlines and shuttered factories became part of daily life. Yet even in that bleak decade, the human spirit refused to break. Families found creative, inexpensive ways to laugh, play, andContinue Reading
It took well over a century for archaeologists to start taking ancient tattoos seriously, with old colonialist attitudes and more contemporary stigmas steering scholars away. What’s more, ancient tattoos can be difficult to study: Tattooing tools are tricky to identify in the archaeological record, and only rarely is ink wellContinue Reading
Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils. According to new research, they can serve as biological indicators of fossils in western North America and can be identified using remote sensing. Preferential colonization of dinosaur bones by lichens.Continue Reading
“What’s going on here?” asks a New Yorker named Joey, surveying the crowd and cameras stuffed inside McCaffrey Playground in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. Taking in the people climbing children’s play equipment for a better look, he guesses there must be a famous actor doing aContinue Reading
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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). My body is melting into a puddle of gold. In reality, I’m lying on the floor in a timber-clad room suspended over a sparkling Indian Ocean lagoon. Both sound far-fetched, but I’m at a master-led healing retreat in the Maldives, andContinue 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
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Washington D.C. was a sweeping celebration of American innovation and a call to action for America to lead the AI revolution. NVIDIA at the epicenter of this next Apollo moment. The 90-minute talk blended technical deep dives, major announcements, andContinue Reading
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