A recent Expedia travel trends report shows that, remarkably, 63 percent of travelers plan to include lesser-known spots in their travels this year, with destinations that offer locally rich experiences. A detour destination doesn’t mean completely avoiding a popular destination. It can also involve a night or two in thatContinue Reading
The world is burning again. There seems to be conflict and war everywhere, and many people on social media are actually wishing for WWIII so that they can “experience what it’s like to live in wartime.” At the same time, those living in war zones would give anything not to.Continue Reading
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and 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 – a big-time MAGA influencer and podcaster – 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 newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Buildings coated in a cement-based paint that “sweats” 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 — he creates metals that can shape shift. Benafan, a materials research engineer at NASA’s 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 democracy’s strength – as well as its vulnerability. The organizers of Saturday’s coast-to-coast “No Kings” demonstrations had sought to counter President Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, and serve up a splitContinue Reading
Captured and jailed in 2011, Joaquin Guzmán, aka “El Chapo,” 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
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