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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming a paleontologist himself. Over six decades later, the prehistoric print is now ready for its close-up. Runnegar gave the fossil to a team at the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur Lab, where they believe that the roughly 7-inch, fossilized footprint was made by a small, two-legged dinosaur, most likely an early sauropodomorph. These primitive relatives…
Oppo has confirmed that two new smartphones, the Oppo A6v and Oppo A6i+, will launch in China on February 2 at 10 AM local time. Pre-orders for both models will open at the same time. The announcement was shared through official Weibo teasers, which also confirmed the color options for each device. The Oppo A6v will be available in Glacier Blue, Titanium Rock Purple, and Wild Green. Oppo positions the A6v as a compact phone with a flat display that is easy to hold and carry. The Glacier Blue finish reflects soft light tones, Titanium Rock Purple has a darker…
When it comes to gaming monitors, you have an overwhelming amount of options to pick from and specs to consider. Not just deciding on a brands, but also size, resolution, refresh rate—all of these factors come into play when finding what’s best for you and your budget. Though there’s one detail that’s more important than the others. How curved is it? If you’ve never worked with a curved monitor, it may just sound like a cheap gimmick, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Asus happens to have one of its curved monitors on sale right now. The 34-inch VG34VQL1B TUF curved…
Crunchyroll is one of the most popular streaming platforms for anime viewers. Over the past six years, the service has raised prices for fans, and today, it announced that it’s increasing monthly subscription prices by up to 20 percent. Sony bought Crunchyroll from AT&T in 2020. At the time, Crunchyroll had 3 million paid subscribers and an additional 197 million users with free accounts, which let people watch a limited number of titles with commercials. At the time, Crunchyroll monthly subscription tiers cost $8, $10, or $15. After its acquisition by Sony, like many large technology companies that buy a…
Buying a good budget phone can be a challenge. High-end handsets continue to get more features, but on the other end of the spectrum, there are only so many things you can skimp on before a device becomes too compromised. With the Galaxy A17, Samsung is trying to balance both sides of that equation with something that sports a solid design, a bright screen, decent cameras and respectable battery life for just $200. And despite some flaws, the company has succeeded at making a capable phone that fits into almost every budget.SamsungEven though its processor is a bit dated, for…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The evidence is clear—and in your hair. Americans were exposed to as much as 100 times more lead in their daily lives than they are today before the Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970. In an effort to examine the dramatic reduction in toxic heavy metal exposure, researchers turned to human hair samples dating back a century. Their findings, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide a startling and dramatic example of the lifesaving benefits of robust, comprehensive,…
IKEA has launched a new portable speaker in Europe called the Grejsimojs Portable Bluetooth speaker. The product is part of the Grejsimojs range, which focuses on playful designs made for kids. The Grejsimojs Portable Bluetooth speaker is built around a single 1.6-inch full-range driver. It delivers a total power output of 2 W and covers a frequency range of 150 to 19,000 Hz. The maximum sound pressure level is rated at 73.8 dB. Audio is streamed over Bluetooth. The Grejsimojs speaker is described as a “musical mouse.” It features a purple ABS plastic body with four legs and two ears.…
Just as the noise from the fan outcry about the disappointing Stranger Things finale was starting to die down, another project from the Netflix sci-fi series is putting the Hawkins kids back in the limelight. Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85 is an animated series that takes place between the main series’ second and third seasons, and all things considered, it looks pretty good in its first trailer. Netflix has pegged the show as a more kid-friendly “Saturday morning cartoon” take on Stranger Things, and it definitely comes off that way based on the clips we’ve seen thus far. It’s colorful,…
No longer keen on more Commander Keen While id’s decision to lean into fast, action-oriented first-person games might seem obvious in retrospect, the video reveals that it was far from an easy decision. Catacomb 3D earned the team just $5,000 (about $11,750 in December 2025 dollars) through a contract to deliver bi-monthly games for Softdisk’s Gamer’s Edge magazine-on-a-disk. Each episode of the Commander Keen series of run-and-gun 2D games, on the other hand, was still earning “10 times that amount” at the time, Romero said. That made sticking with Commander Keen seem like the “obvious business decision,” Romero says in…
Ubisoft continues to raise eyebrows around how it is treating employees as it attempts a business overhaul. David Michaud-Cromp, a level design team lead at Ubisoft Montreal, said last week that he was suspended for three days without pay after voicing opposition to the company’s return to office mandate. Today, Michaud-Cromp posted on LinkedIn that he has been fired. “I was terminated by Ubisoft, effective immediately,” he wrote. “This was not my decision.”A spokesperson for Ubisoft gave Kotaku the following statement regarding Michaud-Cromp’s dismissal: “Sharing feedback or opinions respectfully does not lead to a dismissal. We have a clear Code…