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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…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A standard ballpoint pen will not write in space. Without gravity, the ink refuses to flow. This simple failure illustrates a profound headache in space exploration: tools designed for terrestrial use often become useless in a microgravity environment. Robots, for all their technological sophistication, are no exception. Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating errors, causing the machines to drift. Until recently, astronauts sometimes had to intervene…
Just about any monitor can work with a Mac Mini. It doesn’t need to be made by Apple or have any official certification. There’s a case to be made for using a cheap 1080p monitor with the Mac Mini, but most Mac users will want something a bit more premium. As you can see by options like the Dell 27 Plus 4K, that doesn’t have to mean overly expensive. Either way, here are the four elements to consider when shopping for a good monitor to go with your Mac Mini.Size and resolution: 27-inch and 32-inch monitors are the most common…
Apple just came out with these M5 MacBook Pro models a few weeks ago and they’re still full price on Apple’s website, but Amazon decided to spread some holiday cheer by lowering the prices on all models to all-time lows. The 24GB/1TB model now costs $1,799 instead of $1,999, and the 16GB/512GB model now costs $1,349 instead of $1,599. This means that these M5 machines are actually cheaper than the M4 generation was when it first came out. You get here Apple’s new M5 chip, a stunning 14.2-inch Liquid display that can reach 1600 nits of brightness and a battery…