SpaceX is gearing up for Starship’s 13th test flight later this week
The next test flight of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster could take off as soon as Thursday, and much of the hour-long mission will look a lot like…
July 2026
Beluga whale live cam goes launches. YAY!
There’s no denying that it’s been a brutally hot summer in North America and Europe. So if you need a new way to cool off as another heat dome settles…
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions…
Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”
Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating…
New paint-on health sensors are as fun as face paint
Picture it. A colorful tattoo tiger, shark, or rainbow that can read your brain waves, power robotic prosthetics, and even spot heart attacks earlier. Engineers at Penn State University filed…
Why researchers gave pigeons tiny backpacks
You might assume that pigeons keep their eyes still as they fly. New research, however, shows that pigeons engage in slow, subtle eye movements. This behavior might help the birds…
The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?
The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin settling islands thousands of kilometers…
Every cool thing you can do with Apple’s new Siri AI app
With the launch of Apple Intelligence in 2024, Apple first started to get serious about AI. But it’s taken the company another two years to finally get its Siri assistant…
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death
WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case of a planet that survived the death of a Sun-like star. It’s a Jupiter-size world orbiting a white dwarf—the burned-out remnant of…
Overhaul of public lands grazing regulations seeks to cut public involvement
The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep, and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West,…