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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Ants are some of nature’s most selfless animals. They practice social distancing when ill, consistently act for the good of the colony, and will die to protect their queen from outsiders. This evolutionary drive is so strong that at least one ant species will even willingly sacrifice themselves before they leave their cocoons. The evidence, documented in a study published on December 2 in the journal Nature Communications, highlights a particular form of ant altruism. While a single ant is a comparatively simple creature, things quickly…
We’ve known there was a film adaptation of Helldivers , but we now have a director and writer. Justin Lin will helm the movie and Gary Dauberman is writing the script, .Justin Lin is a great choice here. He directed many of the more beloved Fast & Furious entries and helmed the . Helldivers is kind of a mix of both. It has outer space stuff, but also stylish action that occasionally borders on satire. Lin hasn’t made that many movies in recent years, but did the Keanu Reeves comic BRZRKR for Netflix.However, he’s been all over TV screens. Lin…
The top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, Richard Pazdur, has decided to retire from the agency just three weeks after taking the leading position, according to multiple media outlets. Pazdur, an oncologist who has worked at the FDA since 1999, was seen as a stabilizing force for an agency that has been mired in turmoil during the second Trump administration. He took over the role of leading the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on November 11, after the previous leader, George Tidmarsh, left the agency amid an investigation and a lawsuit regarding allegations that he…
Mad Men is probably one of the best 10 television shows ever made. It’s certainly one of the most important. It came to define a late aughts “golden age” of TV when the internet was full of show recaps and essays and aspiring networks were racing to land prestige TV hits that would win awards and convince critics that movies were no longer the most important medium for visual storytelling. So it’s equally fitting, in a way, that the 4K re-release of Mad Men on HBO includes sloppy oversights that make it emblematic of media’s current enshitification in the streaming…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If the thought of going to the dentist makes your teeth chatter with fear, you’re not alone. At least 15 to 20 percent of adults are believed to have odontophobia—aka dental anxiety—which prevents them from maintaining regular cleanings and dental check-ups. One of the biggest sources of this anxiety comes from the high-pitched, eardrum-piercing sound of a dental drill used to cut into the teeth. “I repeatedly saw patients—including my own child—become anxious or uncomfortable with the sound of the dental drill,” Dr. Tomomi Yamada, a…
Were you a Lego set kid or a giant-bucket-of-Legos kid? I was a sets kid all the way — I loved, and still love, the zen feeling of building something incredible a little bit at a time. Also, every time I tried to build something from the giant bucket, it fell apart immediately, but let’s not dwell on that. We’ve just finished trawling the net for the best Cyber Monday deals on Lego sets. While the day is over, the Lego sales aren’t; some sets are still up to 50% off. We’ve gathered them all on the list below, so…
My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its parent, embryonic programmers form ineradicable attachments to the patterns and quiddities of their first formative language.For many people, that language is Ruby. It’s often credited with making programming “click”; imprintees speak of it with a certain indebtedness and affection. I get that. I wrote my first “Hello world” in an awful thing called Java, but programming only began to feel intuitive when I learned JavaScript (I…
There’s a very complicated drama happening around the Pokémon Go community right now, and at the center is an accusation that someone at Niantic is allegedly helping a group of resellers trading rare monsters for real money. When fans tried to bring light to this situation, they say they were met with a wave of harassment and doxxing. It all started with a post on the CasualPokemonTrades subreddit by user Glitch-keeper, which outlines a series of allegedly illegitimate rare monsters for sale through community groups. These monsters have some details that seem inconsistent with what is possible in-game, including that…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks to relativity, time actually moves faster on the Red Planet than it does here on Earth. For years, scientists have wondered about the exact temporal difference between planets, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) finally have an answer. Their calculations published on December 1 in The Astronomical Journal not only answer a longtime question, but help advance humanity’s…
Google has announced a slew of new accessibility features coming to Android ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday. Advanced voice dictation, expanded support for an external mouse and improved expressive captions are just some of the features aiming to make Android a more accessible mobile experience.A more advanced dark theme is now available for devices running Android 16 that will automatically darken most apps even when those apps lack their own native dark modes. Exclusive to Android 16, users can now select between “Standard” and “Expanded” when setting up Dark theme.For those using a connected mouse…