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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Sleep is mysterious. All of us lay down every night and proceed to be completely unaware of what’s happening in the waking world around us as we snooze. It’s an absurd state of affairs. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that there are all kinds of myths about sleep. We have inaccurate ideas about what prevents us from sleeping, what helps us sleep, and what happens while we’re sleeping. Here are four common sleep myths, refuted by scientific studies.  Exercise before bed is fine, actually Some people…

NewsFeedTwo Kenyan human rights activists have returned home after being secretly detained for 39 days in Uganda where they allege mistreatment. Bob Njagi and Nick Oyoo disappeared while taking part in an event for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine. Uganda’s President Museveni alleges the men ‘planned to train youth to riot’.Published On 9 Nov 20259 Nov 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share

The Sims 4 community is in turmoil. Its biggest stars are distancing themselves from the game with the support of their millions of subscribers. Then there are creators in the middle: those big enough to be known, but not big enough to be insulated. And they are struggling with a difficult choice of whether or not to keep playing the game they love and, in some cases, depend on.Last month, The Sims’ publisher EA announced that it would be acquired for $55 billion dollars by a combination of investors including the Saudi Arabia Private Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, an…

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducting the White Stripes did not result in the reunion of the long-dissolved duo, as many had hoped, with Meg White remaining out of the spotlight, as she has been since they announced their split nearly 15 years ago. But if she was absent from the Hall of Fame proceedings at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre, her presence was very much felt in remarks from Iggy Pop, who formally inducted the pair, and especially from Jack White, who accepted on both their behalfs and even read a fable he wrote down this week about…

Evans held a 13-point lead over both Ogier and Rovanpera going into the Toyota City-based event.However, the Finn’s hopes took an early blow, dropping more than five minutes on Friday after damaging his rear suspension in a collision with a barrier.Evans began slowly, placing sixth on the opening stage, but put together back-to-back stage wins on Friday and a strong Saturday morning sequence to rise up to second just 1.4secs behind leader Ogier.The Frenchman responded with a dominant performance on Saturday afternoon, which continued as he was also the quickest driver across the final day’s six stages – including adding…

The scale of lobbying of ministers by developers on Labour’s landmark planning changes, which seek to rip up environmental rules to boost growth, can be exposed as campaigners make last-ditch attempts to secure protections for nature.The government published its planning and infrastructure bill in March. Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to do so.The government’s planning bill will reach its final stages before it is given royal assent in the…

Being innovative and using knowledge elicitation techniques to infuse best practices and deep domain expertise into generative AI and LLMs.gettyIn today’s column, I address how you can discover hidden best practices that underlie deep expertise and then codify that secret sauce of domain knowledge into modern-day generative AI and large language models (LLMs).The crux of this vexing matter is that we can lean into the precepts of knowledge elicitation that were well-formulated during the rules-based expert systems era. I realize that some who are steeped in LLMs might balk at using the “dated” approaches from an earlier era of AI.…

In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves. As they expected, for disturbances above a certain frequency, the waves persevered.But as the pair continued to dial up the frequency, they suddenly began to see destruction again. At first, Oliveras worried that there was a bug in the computer program. “Part of me was like, this can’t be right,” she said. “But the more I dug, the more it persisted.”In fact, as the frequency of the disturbance increased, an alternating pattern emerged. First there was an interval of…

A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook profile page, but then this is no mundane corner of the internet. The group where Rod and other men advertise themselves is a community where women and couples come, in many cases, to fulfil a lifelong dream: parenthood.There is a growing number of online sperm donor groups on social media. They offer people the chance of parenting children in an unregulated, dangerous but surprisingly straightforward way.Membership of groups such as Sperm Donors UK, Start a Family…

Adam RittenbergNov 8, 2025, 07:37 PM ETCloseCollege football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.IOWA CITY, Iowa — Since entering the Big Ten last year, Oregon has shown it can win in several of the league’s most hostile environments, not losing a single road game. Perhaps more impressive: How the Ducks have won.The latest example came Saturday at Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium as No. 9 Oregon won 18-16 following Atticus Sappington’s 39-yard field goal with three seconds to play. Oregon prevailed without top wide receiver Dakorien Moore and top tight end Kenyon Sadiq. Another starting receiver, Gary Bryant Jr.,…