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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may begin to lead scientists to invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) slithering through the Everglades. More specifically, researchers will home in on signals coming from inside the enormous snakes’ stomachs. Florida’s decades-long python problem remains one of the toughest ecological challenges facing wildlife conservationists in the United States. Despite experts’ best attempts to highlight their nutritional value and even hunt them using robotic rabbits,…
It’s Alien Day, and this year Creative Assembly and Sega have a special present for Xenoheads everywhere: a new teaser for the upcoming Alien: Isolation 2. The brief video, titled “False Sense of Security” on YouTube, offers a fresh glimpse into the ominous world of the game. A dark, creaking room opens up to reveal a dilapidated alien base soaked in rain, followed by a cut to the iconic emergency phone booth that serves as a save station throughout Alien: Isolation. While it isn’t a ton to go off of, it does suggest the sequel might take place in a…
Paramount+ unveiled a new teaser for the upcoming fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at CCXP in Mexico City over the weekend. (Some spoilers for prior seasons below.) The third season of Strange New Worlds was admittedly a bit uneven, with serious plot lines mixed in with some downright silly ones that divided fans. Arguably the most significant moment was bidding farewell to Melanie Scrofano’s Marie Batel, Pike’s (Anson Mount) love interest. Her parting gift to Pike: an illusory alternate life where she and Pike got to grow old together. So expect Pike to be dealing with her loss…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The fashion industry is ecologically tacky, to put it mildly. Textile manufacturers guzzle around 200 million liters of water every year, while animal leather generates its own immense environmental burdens. But out of everything we wear on any given day, shoes are some of the most unsustainable accessories. As much as 95 percent of all footwear ends up in landfills, where all that rubber, plastic, and foam takes generations to decompose. While there is no easy recipe for crafting a greener shoe, researchers at…
No more getting caught by a forced Windows 11 update while you’re in the middle of a meeting or a match. Microsoft announced some major changes coming to Windows Update on its blog, including the ability to indefinitely pause Windows updates, 35 days at a time.To give users more control, Windows Update introduced the option to extend update pauses as much as users want. Once you opted to pause updates for Windows 11, you won’t be disturbed for 35 days at a time, but you can now reset this 35-day limit for as long as you want. You should eventually…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Stories of human-like dolls yearning to become real people turn up everywhere. Pinocchio wants to be a real boy. The robot child in Spielberg’s A.I. wants to be loved like a human son. The story keeps getting retold because people assume the trajectory is obvious. Build something that looks human, keep improving it, and one day the copy becomes indistinguishable from the original. What’s happening on the ground is stranger than that. At CES 2026, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas demonstrated wrists that bent backward and…
License to thrillThe halfway point of the gaming year is fast approaching, but after several months of blockbusters, don’t count on May being a chance to catch your breath just yet. Several big releases are on the horizon, from a new James Bond game to a high-speed tour of Japan in Forza Horizon 6, so buckle up and get ready for a wild ride on PC and console.Mixed between these big releases are also several smaller games, many of which will be entering an early-access part of development. If you’re looking to plan for the month ahead, we’ve gathered up…
Manitoba could be the first province in Canada to establish a social media ban for kids, but the proposal’s details aren’t very clear yet. The province’s premier, Wab Kinew, announced during a fundraiser event on Saturday and on X that Manitoba would put in place a ban for social media and AI chatbots for its youth.”They’re doing these very awful things to kids all in the name of a few likes, all in the name of more engagement, and all in the name of money,” Kinew said at the event. “Our kids will never be for sale and their attention…
Something strange has been swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until a decade ago, the floating sea ice that radiates from the continent had been expanding, even with climate change already in full swing. Then, in 2016, it suddenly and dramatically contracted — and has yet to recover — as rising global temperatures seemed to catch up with the Southern Ocean. Far from being just a local issue, the loss of sea ice has huge implications for Antarctica’s vast ice sheet, which would drive sea levels up 190 feet if it disappeared.Now, scientists say they’ve identified what’s…
If your spider-sense is tingling, perhaps it’s because Prime Video released the official full trailer for its upcoming live action series, Spider-Noir, at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City over the weekend. As it did with the first teaser back in February, the streaming platform released the trailer in two formats: one in black and white (above)—very Raymond Chandler-esque—and another in color (below), which the showrunners are calling “True Hue.” As previously reported, Marvel Comics created its “noir” line in 2009, reinterpreting familiar Marvel characters in an alternate universe, usually set during the Great Depression in the US. A version of the…