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Did the New Year give you an itch to reimagine your home? Maybe you’ll finally repaint those boring eggshell white walls with a cozy olive green, navy blue, or … it’s so hard to choose, isn’t it? Trying to decide might be what halts your project before it even begins. This new gadget will do […]

Batteries that power electric cars are tested rigorously in the lab and in real-world conditions before the electric vehicle hits the market. At Nissan’s technical center near Detroit, that process includes a steel chamber capable of reaching temperatures ranging from -40 to 176 degrees Fahrenheit.  Ansu Jammeh, an engineer on Nissan’s Zero Emissions team, donned

In an era where data is the backbone of every organization, cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, leaving businesses across Germany—particularly in Frankfurt—vulnerable to attacks. Recent GDPR statistics reveal a troubling surge in data breaches, with nearly 40% of small to medium businesses (SMBs) in Hessen reporting cybersecurity incidents in the past year. Frankfurt, a hub

A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons and roughly 1,100 lbs of narcotics. Those charges alone will get someone locked up for quite a long time—throw in another conviction for trying to offload thousands of pounds of uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, and it’s unlikely Takeshi

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet. You can check out the awe-inspiring images below.  On January 8, the robotic explorer operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Just before Christmas, two backyard birders in Michigan were in for the ultimate surprise–a yellow Northern Cardinal. Arlene and John McDaniel spotted the incredibly rare bird in their backyard in Bath, Michigan near East Lansing. “I really couldn’t believe it,” Arlene tells Popular Science. “We do get a lot of cardinals. There’s always a lot

Popular Science started writing about technology more than 150 years ago. There was no such thing as “gadget writing” when we published our first issue in 1872, but if there was, our mission to demystify the world of innovation for everyday readers means we would have been all over it. Here in the present, PopSci is

I’ve loved Sid Meier’s Civilization games for decades, so I’m really excited about the upcoming Civilization VII. What I’m not excited about is how my current laptop probably won’t be able to handle one turn, let alone … just one more turn. But this wouldn’t be an issue if I had the latest MSI Titan

Tens of thousands of Californians are turning to a crowdsourced, nonprofit app called Watch Duty for critical, up-to-the-moment disaster updates as deadly fires continue to rage through the state. The app, which uses a mixture of official government and volunteer data to track wildfires, surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Threads as the most downloaded app

What’s a 11-letter concept shared by crossword puzzles and avalanches, and starts with the letter “P?” According to one physicist, the answer is simple: Percolation. “When a statistical physicist looks at a partially solved crossword puzzle, she or he sees immediately a percolation problem: Is there a spanning path consisting of fully solved words?” writes