A good power bank is essential. Between my phone, headphones, tablet, and smartwatch, I feel like I always have one device or another begging me to plug it in. I actually carry around a power bank with me everywhere due to my chaotic, spontaneous lifestyle and refusal to charge my devices when they aren’t actively…
Last October, the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said in a speech that his group had arrested what he described as “well trained spy cells operating under a humanitarian cover”, from organisations including the WFP and Unicef, the UN’s childrens agency. The UN has rejected the allegations.
The New Scientist Book Club read Tim Winton’s novel Juice in February The New Scientist Book Club moved from reading about the emancipation of a sex robot in January, with Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot, to a scorching vision of Australia many generations from now in February, with Tim Winton’s Juice. Winton’s story follows an unnamed…
The Google Pixel 10a comes out on March 5, and right now, Amazon and Best Buy are both offering free $100 gift cards when you preorder. The phone’s price is $499, but the gift card sweetens the deal. It’ll be automatically added to your cart. Amazon’s gift card is a physical one that ships with…
Regular engagement in the arts can lead to ‘widespread longer-term physiological changes’ Maskot/Getty Images I can pinpoint the precise comment that made me want to embark on a career researching the health benefits of the arts. I was fresh out of university, working in the NHS, managing the performing arts programme at Chelsea and Westminster…
Taking time to paint in Cornwall, UK Ashley Cooper/Alamy Russell stood with his hand on the door, wondering whether to go in. It just wasn’t his scene. He was only here because his doctor had told him to come. It had started with a stroke. He’d been walking home from work when the blood supply…
Psst! Can you keep a secret? Yana Iskayeva/Getty Images The average person is keeping nine types of secrets, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires. This can be a major burden, because secrets have the troubling habit of flashing into the mind unbidden. Confessing them can sometimes bring relief, but some secrets…
Adam Weiss at SEEQC, a quantum chip foundry, configuring a dilution refrigerator SEEQC There’s a lot I love about the 1980s, from the new wave of British heavy metal to abundant purple blush favoured by the era’s make-up artists. But among all that hair, noise and glam, there were some ignored superstars: superconducting circuits. In…
The San Diego Padres are on the brink of a major transition as reports indicate that at least five groups have submitted bids to purchase the team. According to sources from The Athletic and the San Diego Union-Tribune, these bids were placed on Wednesday during the first round of offers. While the sources remain unnamed…
In an exciting matchup, the New Orleans Pelicans are set to take on the Utah Jazz after a standout performance from Saddiq Bey, who lit up the scoreboard with 42 points in the Pelicans’ recent 129-118 victory over the Jazz. This clash will take place in Salt Lake City at 9:30 p.m. EST, and both…