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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When you think of butterflies, chances are you imagine unmistakable insects with bright, bold wings. But it turns out that individual butterfly species are sometimes shockingly difficult to tell apart. Cue museum collections and genetic analysis—a biological dream team. “Thanks to the genetic revolution and the collaboration of researchers and museums in various countries led by London’s Natural History Museum, century-old butterflies are now speaking to us,” Christophe Faynel, an entomologist at the Société entomologique Antilles Guyane, said in a statement. “By comparing modern DNA with…
Several of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of San Francisco streets following a significant power outage that took out the city’s traffic lights. Waymo responded to the power outage by suspending its ride-hailing services in the city, but images and videos on social media showed the self-driving taxis stopped at intersections with hazard lights on.”We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the widespread power outage,” Suzanne Philion, a spokesperson for Waymo, told Engadget in an email. “Our teams are working diligently and in close coordination with city officials,…
GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Between the launch of a new console and multiple first-party releases, 2025 was a pretty big year for Nintendo. The Switch 2 got off to a roaring start, but the original Switch family of consoles wasn’t forgotten about this year, as Nintendo ensured several of its biggest releases were also playable on it. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokemon Legends: Z-A were playable on the older hardware, while other legacy games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears…
Jean-Luc got 5 hours of time with Mewgenics and they can’t stop thinking about it.
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Winter has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. With today’s winter solstice, the days will start to get a little bit longer, but the cold will stick around. We humans typically handle the dipping temperatures by staying inside, sleeping more, and dressing in layers. But what about other members of the animal kingdom? Here are some unique ways that animals survive winter’s deep freeze. Brumation nation To fend off winter’s chill, some reptiles and all amphibians brumate. Brumation is basically a less intense form of hibernation.…
As we come barreling toward the end of the year, you can still find all sorts of great tech deals. Lots of good stuff has been marked down for holiday shopping, but there is no rule against using these hefty discounts to secure a nice new gift for yourself. If you’re been in the marker for a new computer, you can upgrade to the Apple iMac right now while saving yourself 12%. That may not sound like a ton, but it actually cuts the price down by $150. The M4-powered iMac which usually runs for $1,299 is now just $1,149…
There’s a difference, of course, between “putting some music on” and “listening to music.” The first is just a nice way of disturbing the silence while you get on with some task or other, while the second is a way of transporting you into a world of emotion and expression. And so it follows that while the first doesn’t require an exceptional level of quality to be effective, the second benefits no end from sounding as close to the artist’s original intentions as is possible. For digital music, that’s lossless audio.You may have heard more about lossless audio recently, thanks…
Here at Live Science, we have created a guide to 22 gifts for nature lovers to give you some ideas of what to buy other people, but what about you?Items like cameras, binoculars, and telescopes aren’t impulse buys, and certainly not stocking fillers. They are also very personal purchases, and often expensive. Trusting someone else to make the right choice on your behalf is a gamble, and frankly, we wouldn’t always recommend it.If you’re a skywatcher, you’ll have a preference for what you like to look at; some telescopes will be more suitable for deep space explorations, and others will…
If there’s one thing that can transform how your home feels without dropping hundreds on new furniture, it’s the lighting you choose. These Govee smart bulbs now cost just $17 for a two-pack on Amazon, down from the usual $25, and you can stack an extra 10% off with the promo code IZVCRPT14KV7 to hit a record low price that makes upgrading your entire house ridiculously affordable. You get 1000 lumens of brightness per bulb (equivalent to old 75W incandescents), access to 16 million colors, tunable white light from warm 2700K to cool 6500K, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and full…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems off the blackboard, thinking they were a homework assignment. He found the homework “harder to do than usual,” he would later recount, and apologized to the professor for taking some extra days to complete it. A few weeks later, his professor told him that he had solved two famous open problems in statistics. Dantzig’s work would provide the basis for his doctoral dissertation and, decades later, inspiration for the film Good Will…