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• Everything Apple just announced at its fall 2026 event: The folding iPhone Duo, iPhone 18, Apple Watch Series 12, and new AirPods

  09-09-2026 22:38 via popsci.com
  
  Apple’s first folding phone is real. The iPhone Duo opens from a 5.4-inch outer screen into a 7.6-inch inner one, and it starts at $1,999. It runs the same A20 Pro chip as the new iPhone 18 Pro inside a grade 5 titanium enclosure, and it goes on sale October 23 with preorders opening October 16 at 5 a.m. PT. And there’s a lot more to cover.The rest of the hardware arrives together on Friday, September 18: the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at $1,199 and $1,299, Apple Watch Series 12 from
  
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• NASA’s Swift Observatory Resumed Science Observations, At Least For Now

  09-09-2026 22:07 via popsci.com
  
  NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is back to business after months flying in a stripped-down mode while it waited for a rescue mission that ultimately failed. On August 26, the agency switched Swift’s Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope and X-ray Telescope back on. A third instrument, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT), remains offline while a team works to return it to data collection in the coming weeks. Earlier this month, Link, the Katalyst Space spacecraft that was originally se
  
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• Apple Launches Its First Foldable iPhone

  09-09-2026 21:20 via nytimes.com
  Apple introduced the iPhone Duo, the company’s first device that opens and closes like a book, at the company’s annual product event on Wednesday.
  
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• Smart elephants can look before they leap

  09-09-2026 20:00 via popsci.com
  
  Like humans, elephants are famously social creatures. But unlike teenage humans, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) can think before they act.Scientists in Thailand discovered this after 16 Asian elephants at the country’s National Elephant Institute successfully participated in a detour test. In this sort of challenge, the animal has to resist an obvious but ineffective strategy (an impulse) to get a treat and follow an effective but indirect alternative—an ability called inhibitory
  
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• Canada and the Bully to Its South

  09-09-2026 18:31 via nytimes.com
  Readers discuss the contrasts between the United States and Canada, and the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America. Also: Conquering “digital territory.”
  
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• Paleontologists discover first adult ‘T. rex’ footpath

  09-09-2026 18:01 via popsci.com
  
  Tyrannosaurus rex fossils are relatively common finds, with dozens of variously complete examples on display in museums around the world. But T. rex tracks? That’s an entirely different story. Even when stomped into the mud by a 17,500-pound apex predator, dinosaur footprints rarely last long enough to fossilize over millions of years.That’s what makes a recent discovery in southwestern North Dakota so remarkable. Paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Liv
  
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• Say What? Greenland’s Icecap GREW This Year

  09-09-2026 17:28 via technocracy.news
  
  Man-made climate change was the con job of the ages. Remember when Vice President Al Gore was braying in 2009 that the polar ice caps would be ice-free in 5 to 7 years? Organizations like the Club of Rome picked up and pushed that trope as far back as 1972, just as the Trilateral Commission was being conceived by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They fed it to the United Nations in 1974, where it became a mainstay of Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda, and Sustainable Development. All bunk. ⁃
  
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• ‘Birds Supporting Birds’ connects the Philadelphia Eagles with migrating seabirds

  09-09-2026 17:00 via popsci.com
  
  As the 2026-2027 NFL season kicks off, the Philadelphia Eagles are giving new meaning to their signature “Fly, Eagles, Fly” fight song. The football team is partnering with the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for Birds Supporting Birds, an initiative to support seabirds off the coast of Massachusetts (and in New England Patriots’ territory) this fall. The team is supporting NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Shearwater Tagging Project, an ongoing i
  
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• Classic sitcom ‘Friends’ helps grad student endure 104 brain scans

  09-09-2026 16:08 via popsci.com
  
  The science of getting Z’s has progressed rapidly in recent years. A growing body of research links poor sleep to increased risk of cognitive decline, a higher likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease, and even greater chances of developing heart problems. At the same time, wearables, like smart rings and watches, are transforming the way everyday people view sleep, turning their resting hours into rich datasets to pore over, sometimes to unhealthy obsessive levels. What’s still
  
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• Yes, scientists really built a “tickle robot.” Here’s why.

  09-09-2026 15:00 via popsci.com
  
  What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Spotify, YouTube, Apple, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this
  
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• The Marantz MCR 60n streaming amplifier invites you to experience more, sacrifice space less

  09-09-2026 09:00 via popsci.com
  
  Earlier this year, we were fortunate enough to visit Shirakawa Audio Works, where Denon and Marantz assemble components tuned to be masterfully musical. We also spent time at the brands’ shared Tokyo headquarters, where we previewed various audio gear, much of which has already been revealed. However, one item in particular caught our attention, and it was still under wraps … until now. The Marantz MCR 60n network audio player (shown above) stood out by being able to fit in.&nb
  
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• New data flips the narrative on how lions and hyenas interact in the wild

  09-09-2026 06:00 via popsci.com
  
  In The Lion King, the hyenas Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed were at the evil lion Scar’s every beck and call. And while the Disney team probably didn’t spend an extensive amount of time observing lions and hyenas interacting in the wild while making the beloved movie, a zoologist and her colleagues just did—and they found something unexpected.The long-standing assumption about the relationship between the carnivores involves hyenas following lions for their food scraps. However, male A
  
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