Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planetsâMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsâand the distant ice giants of Neptune and Uranus, sit two gas giants: Saturn and Jupiter. These planets are mostlyContinue Reading
Image: https://majinbuofficial.com/phone-17-new-purple-and-green-colors-in-testing-for-base-models/ Would you rather have a purple iPhone 17 or a green one? According to prominent leaker Majin Bu, Apple is currently testing both colors for the base iPhone 17 (the Pro models get different colors). The leaker says Apple is unlikely to choose both colors for the iPhoneContinue Reading
Steve Bannon is a talker. All you have to do is tee up an issue he wants to discuss, and the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump will talk your ear off. Mr. Bannon â a big-time MAGA influencer and podcaster â was the featured guest at a MonitorContinue Reading
There is a famous European folk story about a young chicken who somehow gets it into his head that the sky is falling and therefore the world is about to end. It is a tale of hysteria and paranoia. But the idea of bizarre things falling from the heavens isContinue Reading
The paint relies on passive cooling through water evaporation. Credit: Deposit Photos / Kevin Brine Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Buildings coated in a cement-based paint that âsweatsâ could help keep communities cool during the hottest days of the year. TheContinue Reading
Othmane Benafan is a NASA engineer whose work is literally reshaping how we use aerospace materials â he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASAâs Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, creates metals called shape memory alloys that are custom-made to solve some of theContinue Reading
For a nation on edge, a weekend of patriotic celebration and widespread free-speech participation brought new signs of democracyâs strength â as well as its vulnerability. The organizers of Saturdayâs coast-to-coast âNo Kingsâ demonstrations had sought to counter President Donald Trumpâs military parade in Washington, and serve up a splitContinue Reading
Captured and jailed in 2011, Joaquin GuzmĂĄn, aka âEl Chapo,â escaped in a laundry basket, only to be arrested and returned to custody three years later, when he disappeared again, this time through a tunnel. Captured yet again in 2016, he was extradited to the United States in 2017. ConvictedContinue Reading
Big and Small Underwater Faces â 3rd Place. Trips to the Antarctic Peninsula always yield amazing encounters with leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx). Boldly approaching me and baring his teeth, this individual was keen to point out that this part of Antarctica was his territory. This picture was shot at dusk,Continue Reading
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks. Nearly 1 million books published as early as the 15th century â and in 254 languages â are part ofContinue Reading
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