Author: mehedihasan9992
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show. FACT: Vintage anti-vaxxers…
At the start of this month, Apple announced that it added another iPhone to the list of models that have been branded obsolete by Apple. The latest model to meet the requirements to be called obsolete is the first-generation iPhone SE. Released in 2016 to counter lower priced Android models, the first iPhone SE was based on 2013’s iPhone 5s. That means it was equipped with a 4-inch display. It also featured flat sides, and a physical home button with the first-generation Touch ID.The first iPhone SE was based on the iPhone 5sAt the time that the first iPhone SE…
Private astronaut Jared Isaacman returned to Congress on Wednesday for a second confirmation hearing to become NASA administrator before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in Washington, DC. There appeared to be no showstoppers during the hearing, in which Isaacman reiterated his commitment to the space agency’s Artemis Program and defended his draft plan for NASA, “Project Athena,” which calls for an assessment of how NASA should adapt to meet the modern space age. During his testimony, Isaacman expressed urgency as NASA faces a growing threat from China to its supremacy in spaceflight. “After more than a…
Sony is bringing another of its long-running game franchises to iOS and Android in the shape of MLB The Show Mobile. This is a free-to-play “standalone experience built from the ground up to deliver realistic baseball gameplay on mobile devices.” San Diego Studio, the developer of every MLB The Show game since the series debuted in 2006, is behind this mobile game as well.MLB The Show Mobile, which was spotted by Gematsu, doesn’t feature crossplay with console games. For now, it’s only available in the Philippines and it went live there on Wednesday. Sony says it doesn’t have a timeline…
I’m very annoyed that I have a job, that I have to go to the bathroom, that I have to write this damn blog. All I want to do is play more Sektori, a newly released roguelike twin stick shooter that all fans of Geometry Wars should play ASAP. Out now on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam, Sektori is one of those games that takes less than five minutes to understand and yet will suck up hours of your life in no time. You control a small, colorful shape that must destroy other vibrantly glowing shapes and objects that will damage…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A rhesus macaque who spent a week on the lam in Mississippi in late October is finally settling into a new home over 990 miles from the original site of his escape. Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River, New Jersey, is now caring for Forrest, a young monkey from the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana. “The secret is out!” Popcorn Park posted to social media on December 2. Forrest’s stressful saga began on October 28, 2025, when a transport truck crashed along…
Collectively, the genetic variants in this population are outside the range of previously described human diversity. That’s despite the fact that the present-day southern African hunter-gatherer populations are largely derived from southern African ancestors. What’s distinct? Estimates of the timing of when this ancient south African population branched off from any modern-day populations place the split at over 200,000 years ago, or roughly around the origin of modern humans themselves. But this wasn’t some odd, isolated group; estimates of population size based on the frequency of genetic variation suggest it was substantial. Instead, the researchers suggest that climate and geography…
A new trademark filing hints that Samsung could be preparing a major upgrade to replace its aging ISOCELL sensors.
Indie studio Santa Ragione is facing more strife after claiming its latest game has been blocked on another major storefront. The developer previously said it was at risk of closure after Valve banned Horses from Steam, noting that it would be very difficult to recoup its investment without access to the world’s largest PC gaming storefront. The situation became more dire this week after Epic Games blocked Horses as well.Santa Ragione said Epic notified the studio of its decision just 24 hours before the game was released on Tuesday, despite approving Horses for sale on the Epic Games Store weeks…
Black Friday came and went with some decent Apple deals on Amazon, but the retailer didn’t move all its inventory during the rush. That means the all-time low pricing on the MacBook Air M4 256GB, which launched in March 2025, is still available right now at $749 instead of the usual $999 tag. This matters because Apple rarely sees discounts this deep, especially on hardware that’s less than a year old. See at Amazon The M4 Chip Changes the Way This Machine Works The Apple M4 processor makes things a lot faster and you’ll notice it right away when you…