This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Finnish people living in Helsinki — a capital set at 60 degrees north, on a peninsula surrounded by Baltic waters — don’t simply brave the elements. Instead, they revel in cold plunges, rejoice in the warmth of cedar-lined saunas and takeContinue Reading
October 14, 2025 3 min read A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff is gone after the Trump administration’s latest reductions in force and earlier layoffs By Dan Vergano edited by Tanya Lewis The David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the headquarters of the Centers forContinue Reading
Nick Lewis is an editor at How-To Geek. He has been using computers for 20 years — tinkering with everything from the UI to the Windows registry to device firmware. Before How-To Geek, he used Python and C++ as a freelance programmer. In college, Nick made extensive use of FortranContinue Reading
Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Nvidia has been releasing graphics cards since the GeForce 256 in 1999, which was marketed as the world’s first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a term that is now synonymous with graphics cards today. Since that time, Nvidia has released decades of video cards that have pushed gamingContinue Reading
Release of rabbits in Fort Foster Park in Kittery, Maine. Image: US Fish & Wildlife Service. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The grey-brown New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis)—New England’s only native rabbit—once thrived throughout the northeastern United States. In recent decades,Continue Reading
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October 2025 is a month of meteor showers. In fact, while the Draconids will continue today and tomorrow, the Orionids will shine their strongest in about two weeks or so. Though the first tends to be a little less impressive, the second is often one of the most stunning showersContinue Reading
JRdes/Shutterstock Apple’s ongoing spat with the EU due to violations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) may soon be coming to an end. According to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple may be close to reaching a settlement with EU regulators. If a settlement is ultimately reached, itContinue Reading
The legal system operates on a fundamental principle: a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. For the general public, this can sometimes lead to jarring and controversial outcomes. In certain high-profile cases, the facts of a crime seem clear. Yet, the legal defenses and trialContinue Reading
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