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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Oyster larvae that grow in water with traces of common drugs such as cocaine, ketamine, and fentanyl are slower swimmers that appear more stressed. This new research indicates that the common drugs do have an effect on oyster larvae that are found in contaminated water. The results were presented this week at the Society for Risk Analysis’ annual conference and published in the journal Scientific Reports. All sorts of pharmaceuticals, from pain relievers to illegal drugs, can make it into the water supply via human excretion,…
Two people allegedly linked to China’s infamous Salt Typhoon espionage hacking group seem to have previously received training through Cisco’s prominent, long-running networking academy. Meanwhile, warnings are increasingly emerging from United States lawmakers in Congress that safeguards on expanded US wiretap powers have been failing, allowing US intelligence agencies to access more of Americans’ data without adequate constraints.If you’ve been having trouble keeping track of all of the news and data coming out about infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, WIRED published a guide this week to who’s releasing Epstein documents and what those troves contain, as well as which documents…
Today GameSpot interviews the Nioh 3 developers and asks them our burning questions at the 2025 Game Awards.
Around 6,200 years ago, a teenage boy survived a brutal lion attack in what is now Bulgaria — although deep holes in the youngster’s skull suggest his brain was badly damaged, a new study finds.The 16- to-18-year-old may have been hunting when he encountered the lion (Panthera leo), according to the study, which was published Nov. 30 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Lions roamed what is now Eastern Europe in the Copper Age (4500 to 3500 B.C.), and cut marks on lion bones from prehistoric settlements on the Black Sea coast suggest humans occasionally ate them.An analysis of…
“This was one of the most significant safety events in US nuclear history and yet it was not significantly dangerous to the public,” said Stein. “That speaks to the robustness of these plants.”NRC licensing requires reactor buildings to be built to withstand “tornado missiles,” or large objects colliding at high speeds, Stein added. “They are literally designed to withstand these kinds of events safely,” he said.Still, NextEra plans to increase weather-related safety measures at the reopened Duane Arnold plant.“We do look at those events and try to garner lessons learned and ask, what could make the plant even safer than…
The cult-favorite survival horror series Fatal Frame returns next year when Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake launches for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on March 12, 2026. As the name implies, this is a remake of the original PS2 game with upgraded visuals, quality-of-life adjustments, and other tweaks one would expect from this era of remakes. Preorders for the game are now live, and grabbing the game early gets you a few in-game bonuses. Physical edition preorders are available for $50 from Amazon, GameStop, Target, and Walmart. Digital preorders are also available with the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. 3D printing is long past the days of simple plastic models. Today, the technology is used to manufacture everything from entire homes and rocket parts, to microscopes and even food. After more than six years of experimentation and refining, a former Yale University student recently showcased yet another application: concert-worthy cellos and other stringed orchestral instruments 3D-printed using carbon fiber. The cello, which dates back to the 16th century, is an engineering marvel. Its instantly recognizable, sonorous melodies are only possible through a complex interplay of…
Forget just calling 911; if you have an Android phone, you can now share live video directly with the dispatcher. It’s a new feature Google announced this week called Android Emergency Live Video, and it’s rolling out to folks in the US, along with select regions in Germany and Mexico, for phones running Android 8 and newer with Google Play Services.This capability becomes available during an emergency call or text, as a dispatcher can send a request to your phone to share live video. You need to tap to accept the request, and your phone’s camera will start streaming footage,…
Amazon’s weekly catalog of movie and TV deals features a wide selection of contemporary and classic horror, including numerous 4K Blu-rays with steelbook cases you can only find on Amazon. The retailer’s new 4K Steelbook Editions of the first three Halloween movies are on sale for their best prices yet. The discounts aren’t massive, but Amazon-exclusive editions aren’t discounted very often. Halloween (1978) Steelbook Edition is on sale for $39.49 (was $45), and Halloween II’s Steelbook Edition is discounted to $37 (was $45). Both of these editions released in September and were followed in late October by Halloween III: Season…
Usually, we get tattoos on purpose. But some injuries leave us with a different type of mark known as a “traumatic tattoo” — and these tattoos have nothing to do with needles or ink. So what exactly are traumatic tattoos?Traumatic tattoos are formed when everyday materials, like graphite, dirt or gravel; or metal pieces, like shrapnel, become lodged beneath our skin, leaving a visible (and often long-lasting) mark.”It’s when foreign particles like dirt, asphalt, metal, sand, etc become embedded into the skin’s … dermis,” Dr. Mara Weinstein Velez, a dermatologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center, told Live Science…