The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an interview in March. Her complaints have gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms. “It’s aContinue 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
When the sinking of the White Ship decimated England’s line of succession and threw the kingdom into chaos in 1120, one teenage girl was the only heir to the British throne left standing. Even with the—at first reluctant—endorsement of her father King Henry I, 25-year-old Matilda couldn’t achieve that historical first: ruling asContinue Reading
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A time traveler visiting from an earlier era might reasonably conclude that humanity has entered the age of cyborgs and cybernetics. Pedestrians regularly walk down city streets with tiny computers in their hands and even smallerContinue Reading
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In 2025, NASA and its international partners celebrate 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station. Since November 2, 2000, more than 290 people from 26 countries have lived and worked aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting thousands of experiments that have advanced science and technology on EarthContinue Reading
Arduino boards are a popular choice for DIY electronics, but it’s not always clear how to get started with building projects and programming. There’s now one more solution to that problem: a new starter kit built around the UNO R4 Wi-Fi board. Arduino just announced the Arduino Starter Kit R4,Continue Reading
When a government attorney for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration went to work after the 43-day government shutdown ended, a banner outside the building read: “Welcome back NOAA!” Someone had managed to put it up before employees arrived, despite the back-to-work notice arriving after 11 p.m. the night before.Continue Reading
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