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How marine mammals stay hydrated in a salty sea 0

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple times. While many of the warm-blooded animals that abandoned dry land for a watery habitat no longer exist, we still

Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries – NASA 0

These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a mystery that baffled NASA for years. When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first approached asteroid Bennu in 2018, scientists expected to see smooth, sandy beach-like surfaces. Instead, they

Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?0
- SCIENCE
- March 16, 2026
A meteorologist in Kolkata, India, highlights the approaching Cyclone Dana in October 2024.Credit: Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Improvements in weather forecasting rank high among science’s success stories of the twentieth century1. Back in the 1970s, there were four tropical cyclones that killed tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, whereas today
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The best eReaders for 2026, tested and reviewed 0
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- March 15, 2026
Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. An eReader is more than a convenient way to carry an entire library on an airplane. Today’s eReader screens are stunning, with sharp text that looks just like real ink and paper. These e-ink displays separate eReaders from tablets, making them the best way
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European retailers yank popular headphones after study reports trace amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals 0
- AI, ai coding assistant, AI regulation, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Gadgets, Headphones, HEALTH, openai, pro-ai pacs, Report, SCIENCE, Tech, Technology
- March 14, 2026
Some European retailers have stopped selling certain headphones after an EU-funded study found that they contained hormone-disrupting chemicals. The study included leading brands such as Apple, Beats, Samsung, Bose, JBL, and Sennheiser. Online stores Bol.com, Coolblue, and Mediamarkt didn’t respond to inquiries from The Verge about which headphones they pulled, but local news outlets report
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