SpaceX is about to launch tallest and most powerful rocket in history — A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis programme that aims to put humans back on the moon as soon as 2028
Humans Haven’t Stopped Evolving | Harvard Magazine — Harvard scientists identify hundreds of genes under selective pressure.
My favorite alternative to Google's Pixelsnap Ring Stand is better in every way — Google’s Pixelsnap Ring Stand grabbed attention when the magnetic Pixel 10 series launched last year, but I was never a...
Australia sues US giant 3M for $2bn over 'forever chemicals' in firefighting foam — The case centres on contamination caused by PFAS in the foam at dozens of defence sites.
How the electromagnetic spectrum opened our eyes to the universe — Our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum goes back to Isaac Newton, but astronomers are still finding new ways to employ it. Astrophysicist Emma Chapman explores how much these invisible waves can reveal
The Garmin vívoactive 6 is down to its lowest-ever price at Amazon — save $50 — Score this fitness tracker for under $250 right now.
Why Malaria is Winning (For Now) — Caught malaria? Fast treatment can save your life. Modern drugs kill the parasites attacking your blood, but resistance is growing fast, and without treatment, severe malaria is often deadly. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #le
Tonal's leaderboard finally makes strength workouts as competitive as Peloton's spins. https://www.tonal.com
Scientists Detect an Elusive Giant Squid and Many Other Surprising Marine Animals Near Western Australia Thanks to DNA in the Water — Mucus, feces, skin and other shed tissue allowed researchers to investigate which creatures have been swimming in two deep-sea canyons without hav
The relationship recession is even bigger for Gen Z than we thought — We know that members of Gen Z are less likely to be in a steady relationship than millennials were at their age, but previous research missed out an important factor that actually widens the relationship recess
watched someone deadlift with their eyes closed and it made way more sense why their form was suddenly perfect?
Hello Universe: NASA’s Next-Gen Space Processor Undergoes Testing - NASA — NASA’s High Performance Spaceflight Computing project aims to dramatically improve the computing power of spacecraft. Missions need processors that can
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Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems — AI helping pharmaceutical researchers query decades of information buried in PDF reports
See the Human Body Morph Into Musical Instruments From Around the World at a New Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show
Among All the Great Things Benjamin Franklin Invented or Discovered, His Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom — Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said
FIFA subpoenaed by New York, New Jersey in World Cup ticket investigation — US States react following increasing criticism of football's global governing body for the pricing of 2026 World Cup.
Is the West de-risking from China or containing its economy? — As the US and Europe push to reduce reliance on China, Beijing tightens control over supply chains.
'Not afraid to stay': The Canadians taking fighting wildfires into their own hands — With wildfires now widespread and frequent, some rural residents in Canada are learning how to fight the flames themselves and protect their own homes.
What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter? — The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance. Sponsored by SoFi - Join SoFi Plus today and get more for your money! Visit https://sofi.com/veritasium If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms
Putting CO2 into rocks and getting hydrogen out is climate double win — Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a double win on the climate front, and several groups are trying to make it happen
Someone mapped how breathing tempo shifts your max lift by 3-5% across different exercises... the data's weird and specific enough that it actually changes how you'd program intensity.
watched someone do pull-ups with a backpack full of books and realized i've been doing strength training wrong my entire life, it's just like, load bearing capacity is different than looking swole
watched someone deadlift with perfect form for six months straight and never add weight. turns out they were just solving a puzzle nobody asked them to solve?
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Can Singapore ever build a proper stock market? — The city-state wants to fill a hole in its financial portfolio
Epic dreaming is leaving people exhausted and distressed — Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for this "epic dreaming" to be classed as a sleep disorder
Flood of AI 'garbage' is pushing open-source developers to the limit — The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit
Trust celebrates birth of rare lemur quadruplets — The trust says the quadruplets are incredibly rare, occurring in fewer than 6% of births worldwide.
Brave finally admits its bloat problem—but it could cost you $60 to fix it — Brave Origin is what Brave should have always been.
The best photos of the total solar eclipse — Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, casing a dark shadow over much of the country
Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find — Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute show that resistance training outperforms endurance exercise in improving insulin sensitivity in obesity and Type 2 diabetes models.
An Endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Named Pancake Makes a Triumphant Return to the Ocean After Months of Rehabilitation — The cold-stunned turtle was rescued last fall on Cape Cod and has since made a full recovery. The reptile, whose sex remains unknown, is estimated to be…
Omers Returns 4.8% in First Half, Fueled by Stocks and US Dollar — Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System returned 4.8% in the first half of the year, gaining C$6.9 billion ($5 billion) from a strong US dollar and rising stock market.
Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field — This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic…
Pumas Might Be Making Your Drive Home Safer. When the Predators Are Around, Deer Tend to Avoid Roads, Preventing Some Collisions — In Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the wild cats’ presence corresponded with a 67 percent drop in the likelihood of a deer-vehicle crash and a 76…
Destructive Fires Char Western Europe - NASA Science — Raging wildfires disrupted summer in Spain and France amid sweltering heat waves and prolonged drought.
This guy tracked his lifts for 10 years and made a visualization showing exactly where progress actually stalls — it's not where you'd think.
Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves $\mathsf{NP}$-Complete Problems — Assuming the gravitational field is classical and that it couples to quantum fields via the semiclassical Einstein field equations, we show that the weak-field dynamics of a massive and non-relativistic…
Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe" — Realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games, says Clint Hocking of Splinter Cell and Far Cry fame.
Best Red-Light Therapy Mask: WIRED's Top 5, Ranked (2026) — Your face called, and it’s low-key offended you might trust TikTok more than WIRED.
Pirates are already playing Forza Horizon 6 days before its launch — Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
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Doubling their genomes may have helped plants survive mass extinctions — Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of environmental upheaval
Australia’s Second-Smallest Rock-Wallaby Reappears in a Region Where It Had Not Been Seen for 50 Years — The endangered nabarlek is not easy to find and difficult to distinguish from similar species. But a research team made new detections of the animals that offer “good news…
NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce - NASA — NASA has awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions to help strengthen and streamline state-based pathways for students into skilled technical
Which AI? — Guess the designer — A daily guessing game. Spot whether each landing page was designed by Gemini, Claude, or GPT.
The UK just had its hottest summer ever — The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breaking heat was made 130 times more likely by human-caused climate change
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