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Whether you’re cooking up chemistry, getting physical with physics or bending your mind over mathematics, one thing that remains constant is, well, constants. Some numbers are so fundamental to the way we conduct science that we’d be lost without them, and their discovery has helped us better understand the world around us.So how many of these key figures do you know? Try our new quiz and find out. We’ll be dropping another number in the mix every day for you to guess, and if you prove yourself to be a numberphile, maybe you’ll make it to the top of our…
Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company’s $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and aims to expand opportunities for people of color in the country’s poorest big city.But Fernandez found the program’s cost-of-living stipend lacking—“A lot of us got on food stamps,” she says—and the coursework insufficient for landing a coding job. “I didn’t have the experience or portfolio,” says the 25-year-old, who is now a flight…
A pro-Russian hacker group has come forward as the perpetrator of a DDoS attack on the French national postal service La Poste that took place on December 22, according to . The distributed denial-of-service attack took central computer systems at La Poste entirely offline and caused major disruptions in package deliveries just days before Christmas. reported that the cyberattack on La Poste was still not fully resolved as of Wednesday morning. While regular letters were not affected, postal workers were unable to track packages and online payments through La Banque Postale, the service’s banking division, were also disrupted.The group, known…
The window to get gifts in time for Christmas is pretty much closed, but there’s nothing wrong with a slightly belated gift. And if the big fella left you some gift cards or green paper in your stocking, a little indulgence for yourself isn’t the worst idea. A great idea for either scenario is Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8, especially since it’s somehow still at its Black Friday pricing of just $250 at Amazon. This deal is for the 40mm Bluetooth model of the Galaxy Watch 8, in graphite or silver color. The steep price drop for a brand-new 2025 Android…
The Smallest Cog Unveils Exciting New Merchandise Range Inspired by Richard Hammond’s iconic restoration workshop, The Smallest Cog’s exclusive new merchandise range celebrates craftsmanship, quality, and humour. About The Smallest Cog Founded by lifelong car enthusiast and TV presenter Richard Hammond, The Smallest Cog is a restoration workshop dedicated to reviving classic vehicles one precisely calibrated part at a time. Based in Herefordshire, the workshop has earned a loyal following through TV appearances, YouTube content, and its unwavering passion for motoring heritage. The Smallest Cog, the celebrated automotive restoration workshop founded by global motoring icon Richard Hammond in Hereford, is…
Santa Claus (NASA engineer Guy Naylor) poses with NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft and SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 11, 2025. The Orion spacecraft was stacked atop the SLS in October 2025. Set to launch in early 2026, the Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew under Artemis. Astronauts on their first flight aboard Orion will confirm all the spacecraft’s systems operate as designed with crew aboard in the actual environment of deep space. Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will send astronauts…
All monitors have HDMI and DisplayPort to connect to a PC (or even VGA if it’s a really old one). Those are the basics. If you want the latest of these port standards in monitors, you’re looking for HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1.More and more monitors nowadays include a built-in USB hub, which can sometimes include USB-A ports, an Ethernet jack, and more. Once you connect over the upstream USB-C (or USB-B if the monitor’s a bit older), you can plug accessories and peripherals directly into the monitor. That’s particularly useful if your laptop doesn’t have many ports, or if…
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to own a plug-in hybrid, and recently, fate handed me that opportunity. On a recent trip to Vancouver, I rented a 2024 Toyota Prius Prime for nearly two months — the ideal scenario to try out North America’s most popular PHEV.My experience with the Prius PrimePreviously, the words “Prius” and “sexy” were rarely used in the same sentence. However, I think the wedge-shaped Prius Prime introduced for 2023 is much sexier than its frumpy predecessors. The sleek shape also pierces the wind better to improve efficiency. It’s lower to the ground than…
While there’s something special about holding a physical book, the benefits of an e-reader are undeniable. The ability to carry thousands of books without the bulk, access to instant downloads, and the convenience of reading anywhere, anytime, make digital readers like the Amazon Kindle an obvious choice for today’s reader. However, a common issue with many digital readers is that staring at a backlit screen for long periods can be uncomfortable, and no amount of backlighting can beat the glare of direct sunlight. The Kindle Paperwhite solves this. Now available at an significantly reduced price of $160 (20% off on…
The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones and analyzed.These advances have revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred — something that wasn’t previously thought to have happened. It has allowed researchers to disentangle the various migrations that shaped modern people. It has also allowed teams to sequence the genomes of extinct animals, such as the mammoth, and extinct agents of disease, such as defunct strains of plague.While much of this work has been carried out…