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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Don’t let the appetizing description fool you. When planetary scientists say the interior of Mars resembles a rocky road brownie more than a piece of buttery shortbread, the tasty metaphor masks billions of years of geological violence. In a re-examination of previous observations collected by NASA’s decommissioned InSight probe, researchers have discovered that the Martian mantle is embedded with ancient fragments measuring as much as 2.5 miles wide. The data is detailed in a study published on August 28 in Nature. The solar system’s terrestrial planets…

The passenger demands sensitivity training and $20 million.A passenger plans to sue Delta Air Lines after claiming a flight attendant slapped him mid-flight. The passenger and his attorneys held a press conference to recount the events that took place on July 29, 2025. According to the lawyer, the incident was sparked by a Palestine shirt.Related: Passengers Sue Airlines for Charging for ‘Windowless’ Window SeatsMohammad Shibli was traveling with his wife and two children, ages two and four, on a Delta flight from Atlanta to Fresno, California. The four-hour flight was delayed, and by the time it took off, the two-year-old,…

A portrait of Tyre Nichols is displayed at a memorial service for him on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023 in Memphis, Tenn., after he was fatally beat by Memphis Police during a traffic stop. Adrian Sainz/AP hide caption toggle caption Adrian Sainz/AP MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A judge ordered a new trial Thursday for three former Memphis police officers who were convicted of federal charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, after defense lawyers argued that another judge who presided over their trial was biased in his belief that at least one of the men was in a gang. U.S. District…

Snap is exploring outside investments to help bring its Specs AR glasses to market next year. The company has already invested $3 billion into AR over the past decade, yet its core social media business remains unprofitable, prompting CEO Evan Spiegel to say he’s now “ready to ask for some help.” Snap has even discussed the “nuclear option” of spinning off its AR unit into a separate company, though that presents challenges given the shared tech infrastructure. For now, the company maintains it doesn’t strictly require external funding but is evaluating the most efficient path to capitalize on its long-term AR…

Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter, Querétaro, MexicoArterra/Getty ImagesQuerétaro is known for its impressive stone aqueductLocated in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct.But the city, and state of the same name, is also recognised for a very different reason – as Mexico’s data centre capital.Across the state companies including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and ODATA own these warehouse-like buildings, full of computer servers. No one could supply an exact number, but there are scores of them, with more being built. Ascenty, which claims to be the largest data centre company in…

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the aftermath of a landslide in Wrangell, Alaska in November 2023. U.S. Coast Guard via AP hide caption toggle caption U.S. Coast Guard via AP When a deadly landslide tore through part of Wrangell, Alaska, in 2023, there was only one place people there could go for information. “We’re on an island, and there’s one road, and everybody that lived south of that road lost everything — they lost their electricity, internet, television, phones,” says Cindy Sweat, the general manager of KSTK, the community’s public broadcaster. What was left, Sweat says,…

Authenticity is key for BAFTA-winning director Mark Jenkin, whose “Rose of Nevada” premieres in Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons section Aug. 30, but all is not as it first appears. The ghost story stars George MacKay, Callum Turner and Francis Magee. The film starts with the appearance of an unmanned fishing boat in the harbor of a village in Cornwall, on the West Coast of England. It transpires that the mysterious vessel, the Rose of Nevada, went missing with its crew three decades before. The village has since fallen on hard times, and its resident see the boat’s return as an…

The salary cap for playing staff in SRC, which gets under way on 12 September, has gone up to £160,000 after being £150,000 last season.”At the moment we don’t know what ‘significant investment’ could be but one thing that we are committed to is working with the 10 clubs individually and collectively to get their feedback, thoughts and ideas as part of the consultation process,” said WRU head of player development John Alder.”Whatever the future looks like, SRC has an integral role to play and we have to figure out how we can keep driving standards up.”It will be an…

On the evening of September 7, the second (and final) total lunar eclipse of the year will take place—serving up the striking sight of a red “blood moon” in the sky across much of the world.Total lunar eclipses occur when the Earth is positioned between the full moon and the sun, with the moon falling into the shadow of our planet. However, rather than disappearing into darkness, the shadowed moon instead turns red. This is because of a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering.Visible sunlight, while it appears white, is actually made up of lights of different colors that have different wavelengths,…

Former prime minister and the wife of ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol both indicted on separate charges on the same day.Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025South Korean prosecutors in separate cases have indicted former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo for aiding and abetting former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law last year, and the ex-president’s wife, Kim Keon-hee, for bribery and other charges.The charges were laid against Han, 76, on Friday, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency. Additional charges include perjury and falsifying official documents.Han had been under investigation by a team of special prosecutors for several weeks, according…