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Technology for seeing around corners would be of use to the military Matthew Horwood/Getty Images An ordinary camera could soon take photos of things that are out of sight, thanks to algorithms that interpret how light bounces off a wall. “Normally, when light bounces off rough surfaces, like walls, it scrambles the scene into a…
Good things don’t come in threes. Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react. “Twenty co-orbital asteroids [space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies] of Venus are currently known,” the authors warned in the arockcalyptic…
When we hear the word “friendless,” it’s hard not to imagine a person consumed by loneliness—isolated, and lacking something essential in their lives. But does being without friends really mean being lonely? New research suggests otherwise. A recent study published in the Canadian Review of Sociology by Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory, and Morgan Herbert complicates…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The infamous Tyrannosaurus rex is not the only dinosaur species that North America is famous for. The continent can now boast about a “very odd” genus of elasmosaur. Elasmosaurs themselves were some of the some of the largest plesiosaurs–or a group…
US President Donald Trump (left), accompanied by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (right), announces the Golden Dome missile defense shield CHRIS KLEPONIS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock US President Donald Trump has proposed a defence project, called the Golden Dome, to intercept any incoming hypersonic, ballistic and advanced cruise missiles that threaten the country. “Once fully constructed, the Golden…
Not to be knit-picky, but laundry is a major contributor to microplastic pollution. Synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon shed tiny fibers during the wash cycle that can pass through standard wastewater treatment and end up in waterways. Now, three Case Western Reserve University engineering alumni have fabricated a special washing machine filtration system to…
A junior analyst at a hedge fund opens her compliance dashboard and sees nothing amiss. Yesterday, she ran every trade through the firm’s new “autonomous advisor,” which peppered its reports with phrases like “your keen market instincts are impressive—here’s how I can help.” She felt flattered, clicked accept, and went home. What she never learns…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Contrary to conspiracy theories, the Earth’s core isn’t hollow. The dense, hot ball instead contains a stew of precious metals including platinum, ruthenium, and pretty much all of the planet’s gold. As lucrative as that sounds, there’s essentially no way humanity…
Fragments of the virus have been found in Aedes vexans mosquitoes in Nottinghamshire, UK imv/iStockphoto/Getty Images West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne infection that can be fatal to humans, has been detected in the UK for the first time. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said today that a research project it runs with the Animal…
