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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting enthusiasts in England discovered a rare hoard of early medieval Anglo-Saxon coins in the parish of Bickmarsh, Worcestershire.  Members of Go Detecting (Midlands) Ltd informed relevant authorities, and Worcestershire Archaeology jumped in following an initial investigation. The team conducted a second metal-detector survey, geophysical survey, and then a more targeted archaeological excavation. The dig revealed two more concentrations of coins, which expanded the excavation area even more. The…

Day two of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 kicked off in Anaheim, California, yesterday, following the announcement on April 24 that a new expansion for the MMORPG, titled Evercold, will be dropping in January 2027. While reactions to the upcoming expansion have been positive, the inclusion of AI-generated art during a panel by Square Enix localizer Christopher Koji Fox struck a discordant note that bummed some fans out. The panel in question, titled “From Tacos to Tenders: Serving up the Lyrics of FFXIV,” has drawn fans’ ire due to Koji Fox’s frequent use of AI-generated images and videos…

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the alleged shooter.Both left and right-wing accounts claimed, without evidence, that the attack was staged.President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and dozens of other high-profile administration officials and journalists were attending the dinner at the Hilton hotel in Washington, DC, when a suspect, later identified by media reports as Cole Tomas Allen from California, allegedly ran past security towards the event.…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. You don’t have to be Martha Stewart to host a successful dinner party. Sure, it helps to know your way around the kitchen—but a great dinner party isn’t just about good recipes. It’s about creating a pleasant sensory experience for your guests. And with a few science-backed strategies, you can do exactly that. Start with the guest list When it comes to the number of guests, the sweet spot is somewhere between five and eight, according to the 2022 Canadian Social Connection Survey.  During…

Big business.2026 kicked off with the next big video game movie–The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and it’s already the No. 3 highest-grossing video game film of all time. It’s surpassed an astonishing $800 million+ worldwide after a few weeks. That makes it Hollywood’s highest-grossing movie of 2026 so far, and on a path toward $1 billion.It was not the first video game adaptation from Hollywood and won’t be the last. But where does A Minecraft Movie rank all-time against biggest video game movies? In this gallery, we’re rounding up the highest-grossing video game films of all time, breaking down box…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. From ROMP!: A Journey Through the Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter by Heide Island, PhD, to be published on 4/28/26 by Avery, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2026 © by Heide Island. From behind a stand of frozen lupine, Patches, Crest, and Slash emerge onto the wetland. Moonshine reflects off the newly fallen snow, illuminating the predawn hour with a supernatural brightness. The three female otters surf the snow, their forward momentum…

Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure. You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new hardware. But in the world of robotics, swapping an old robotic arm for a newer model has meant setting everything up from scratch. To fix that, a team of researchers at the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has developed what they call Kinematic Intelligence, a framework that makes switching robots work more like switching smartphones. They describe their system in a recent Science Robotics paper. Demonstrating skills For years, roboticists have…

Recently, a cheerful 100-year-old message in a bottle was found on the south-west coast of Australia. In it, a world war one soldier proclaimed to be “as happy as Larry.”If you’re a betting person, you probably wouldn’t expect great odds of this happening. A bottle cast into the ocean could end up absolutely anywhere.If it floats to a remote location, there is little chance of somebody stumbling upon it. And if it lands somewhere more favorable where people could potentially find it, there are other issues. The message itself will deteriorate over time as light degrades it. If the bottle…

Kindle HoldersHate holding up your Kindle? Or struggle with chronic pain that makes holding it feel terrible? These holders will literally take the weight out of your hands.LamicallGooseneck iPad HolderThis holder works for Kindles and tablets alike, and even my Nintendo Switch. The clamp base lets you attach it to tables and furniture, and it’s easy to position in front of or even above you if you wanted to lie down and read. LamicallTablet Pillow Stand HolderIf you want something that’s freestanding, this pillow tablet stand holder works great for a Kindle. I use it on the couch, and I…

Astronomers have finally mapped out a mysterious galactic “supercluster” that has been almost completely hidden from Earth since it was discovered 10 years ago. The results reveal that the structure is far larger than we realized, and it now ranks among some of the most massive objects in the known universe.The Vela Supercluster is a collection of at least 20 galaxy clusters, each of which contains hundreds or thousands of galaxies, all gravitationally bound into a single entity. Despite its immense size, the supercluster was just discovered in 2016 because of its location: It lies around 800 million light-years from…