How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

NASA notes that the event challenge and not a contest. Image: NASA   Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practicesContinue Reading

Companies like SpaceX want electromagnetic catapults on the moon. Could they be used as weapons?

An illustration of a SpaceX and xAI concept for a mass drive on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX/xAI) A new report stresses the strategic and security implications of placing mass drivers on the moon  — essentially electromagnetic catapults   — by arguing that these launchers could serve as valuable first strike weapons systems. According to theContinue Reading

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Is there room in the market for another Class 8 electric truck? Well, legacy OEMs such as Volvo, Daimler Truck and Traton all make electric trucks, but they seem more interested in lobbying and litigating to stall the EV transition than competing in the electric truck market, while upstarts suchContinue Reading

systemrescue-13.00:-release-highlights

SystemRescue 13.00 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Many Useful Improvements. SystemRescue 13.00 is now available. This is a significant update to the popular Arch-based live Linux distribution that many of us use for system repair and data rescue tasks. If you work with broken systems, need to recoverContinue Reading

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Google announced at Google I/O 2026 that Canonical is the new lead maintainer and ‘strategic steward’ of Flutter desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux. The news was shared in the ‘What’s new in Flutter’ presentation “[The Flutter] desktop experience has reached a new level of maturity this year, driven byContinue Reading