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Can You Solve the Puzzle of Four Knights?
Here at PopMech, we love mind-bending math and logic puzzles, which is why we regularly recruit the sharpest minds in the ...
160 People Wanted to Be Buried in Space. Their Capsule Slammed Into the Ocean Instead.
As part of a rideshare mission with SpaceX, the Nyx capsule launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 23rd. The ...
Your Eyes Are Tricking You. Everything You See Is From 15 Seconds in the Past, Research Suggests
In a peer-reviewed paper published in 2022 in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the University of Aberdeen and ...
AI Chatbots Are Talking in a Language Only They Can Understand. Should We Be Worried or Impressed?
AI chatbots spoke in gibberish at a hackathon this year, puzzling viewers who thought they were developing an alarming level of autonomy. Computer science experts say this is a normal practice that ...
A Fusion Rocket Could Soon Reach a World We Haven’t Seen Since the Stone Age
Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come ...
Archaeologists Found a Stunning Viking Cemetery That Hadn’t Been Touched in 1,000 Years
Archaeologists associated with the Moesgaard Museum in Denmark uncovered the untouched burial site of a powerful chieftain ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...