Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages. If you were to design the strangest diet possible, eating nothing but ants and termites would probably make the shortlist. Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but…
“This is a strategy to keep the US from intervening… that’s what their space architecture is designed to do.” US defense officials have long worried that China’s Guowang satellite network might give the Chinese military access to the kind of ubiquitous connectivity US forces now enjoy with SpaceX’s Starlink…
Price hikes go into effect August 21; standard PS5 will now start at $550. Sony will join Microsoft and Nintendo in raising US prices across its entire game console lineup, the company announced today. Pricing for all current versions of the PlayStation 5 console will increase by $50 starting…
The Pixel 10 series arrives with a power upgrade but no SIM card slot. Google has shifted its product timeline in 2025. Android 16 dropped in May, an earlier release aimed at better lining up with smartphone launches. Google’s annual hardware refresh is also happening a bit ahead of…
ROG Xbox Ally runs a stripped-down Windows that isn’t publicly available (yet). Asus and Microsoft will be launching their ROG Xbox Ally series of handheld gaming PCs starting October 16, according to an Asus announcement that went out today. An Xbox-branded extension of Asus’ existing ROG Ally handheld line,…
Claude support in Xcode heralds bigger moves across the ecosystem. The latest Xcode beta contains clear signs that Apple plans to bring Anthropic’s Claude and Opus large language models into the integrated development environment (IDE), expanding on features already available using Apple’s own models or OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Apple enthusiast…
Ancient teeth reveal that a stimulant has been used since the Bronze Age. Ancient rituals and customs often leave behind obvious archaeological evidence. From the impeccably preserved mummies of Egypt to psychoactive substance residue that remained at the bottom of a clay vessel for thousands of years, it seems…
The Senate is restoring science funding to normal levels; that may not be enough. It’s pretty obvious at this point that the Trump administration is waging a full-scale assault on US science. It has proposed budgets that would be catastrophic, stopped the flow of research funds to a number…
Adding a pre-spin affects shuttlecock’s oscillating behavior, depending on direction of rotation. Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before…
The new Leaf will be the cheapest EV you can buy when it goes on sale this fall. There’s a new Nissan Leaf coming later this year. The third of its kind to bear the name, it sounds like an appealing upgrade. Smaller than the current model on the…
