Best controller: Nintendo Switch Pro ControllerBest stand: Hori Compact PlaystandBest screen protector: amFIlm Tempered GlassBest case: Orlzly Carry Case Compatible with Nintendo SwitchBest memory card: SanDisk microSDXC Card Fortnite EditionBest grip: Satisfye ZenGrip ProBest charging station: PowerA Joy Con & Pro Controller Charging Dock How we select the best Nintendo Switch accessories To deliver a list you can trust, we combined hands-on research with suggestions drawn from in-house reviewers and critical consensus....

Best airtight food storage containers: IRIS USA 3 Piece Airtight Pet-Food Storage Container ComboBest pet-food container and automatic feeder: PETLIBRO Automatic FeederBest pet-food container: Yicostar Pet-Food Storage ContainerBest dog-treat jar: Outshine White Farmhouse Dog and Cat Treat ContainerBest budget dog-treat container: Greenbrier Pet Treat & Food Storage Containers The best pet-food containers will keep your pet happy and healthy First and foremost, the best pet-food storage containers will keep your pet’s food fresh....

How We Selected the Best PS5 headsets As a longtime tech and gaming critic, I have a lot of experience using gaming headsets. I’ve reviewed dozens of them for sites like IGN, PC Gamer and, of course, Popular Science. The majority of my recommendations are based on my own personal testing, playing all kinds of games on PS5. In a couple of cases, I deferred to the accounts of my colleagues past and present, while making sure that the headsets offered high-quality specs and value....

Rice is one of the most widely consumed grains on the planet. More than half of the world’s population eats it as their primary staple in meals spanning from breakfast to dessert. Growing it requires very specific conditions including a delicate balance of flooding and draining (kind of like cooking it). For as popular as rice is, it’s also very easy to screw up. Whether you’ve ended up with overcooked and mushy slop or undercooked and crunchy grains, there seems to be some ineffable art—or science—to getting it just right....

Scientists used emissions reports and epidemiological data to estimate that deaths caused by air pollution from cars, trucks, and other vehicles fell from 27,700 in 2008 to 19,800 in 2017. They calculated that this shift yielded $270 billion of benefits related to reduced mortality (a measure based on mortality risk) and averted greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 alone. However, while emissions from heavy-duty trucks have substantially waned, the picture was less rosy for smaller vehicles, particularly in urban areas....

That recently revived rule is one of several recent White House policies to address climate change by pressing federal and corporate decisionmakers to fully reckon with the costs of an overheated planet. The price of climate change is hard to fathom—financial consulting firm Deloitte predicts that the US stands to lose $14.5 trillion over 50 years if the planet warms by 3°C degrees Celsius—but policymakers have been slow to simply incorporate any of those risks into cost-benefit analyses....

In Ware’s own words: Zappos is a 24/7 company, and we wanted employees to feel like they have normal lifestyles. There are a number of 24/7 cities, but none more so than Las Vegas. You can go grocery shopping at 3 a.m., and the stores are busy. Our original focus was to create our campus so the majority of the services were a part of the city’s fabric. In the process, we realized there was an opportunity to do a lot more....

The NORUSCA II Hyperspectral camera switches among 41 spectral bands in just microseconds, and researchers can combine specific bands into one image. In the one above, there are three bands–one red, one blue, and one green. This makes it easier for scientists to research, but it’s also pretty cool to look at.

A pair of new studies, published together in the journal Current Biology, found that by simply filtering air around zoos, researchers could recover genetic material from surrounding animals. They didn’t just detect the captive animals, though—the teams captured environmental DNA‚ or eDNA, from chicken and fish fed to those animals, and from wild and domestic creatures living nearby. The technique has the potential to revolutionize environmental monitoring. Traditionally, biologists resort to direct observation: standing around looking for animals, or waiting for them to step in front of wildlife cameras....

This story originally featured on Undark. Across the US, people are pushing for the removal of Confederate officers’ names from buildings, schools, and army bases, as protests against racial injustice continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police in May. Something much smaller has also elicited debate over its Confederate name: McCown’s longspur, a bird that lives in the Great Plains and looks a bit like a sparrow....

Boom is a Colorado-based startup with a goal to create a new kind of Concorde—a supersonic aircraft that would bring back faster-than–the-speed-of-sound travel to commercial aviation, and do it in an affordable, sustainable way. In 2020, the company unveiled a 71-foot-long jet called the XB-1, which has yet to fly. That smaller aircraft is meant to be a test vehicle to help pave the way for the Overture jet that doesn’t yet exist, but could someday carry passengers....

Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation built 109 eye-catching and affordable homes in New Orleans for a community where many people were displaced by damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Now this housing development is in disarray. The vast majority of the recently constructed homes are riddled with construction-related problems that have led to mold, termites, rotting wood, flooding, and other woes. At least six are boarded up and abandoned....

The method would involve first breeding 12 million male mosquitoes a week, then sterilizing them by exposing them to gamma radiation using a device called an irradiator, and releasing them into target areas. Once there, the sterile males would mate with wild females, who would then lay dud eggs that don’t produce offspring. The approach has already been used to control fruit flies in Madeira, an island off of Portugal, as well as other agricultural insect pests like screw worms and moths, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)....

Although Moses has successfully raised funds on Kickstarter for his brightly colored cameras in the past, for the Brancopan he wanted to do things a bit differently. Instead of giving his Kickstarter backers a physical product at the end of the campaign he plans to release the STL files that he uses to 3D print the cameras. Campaign backers who donate any amount of money to his campaign will receive these files....

In 1991, when death rates were at their peak, 215.1 people would die of cancer for every 100,000 members of the population. In 2012, the most recent statistics available, that number dropped to 166.4—a 23 percent decrease. That equates to more than 1.7 million deaths from cancer that were avoided, had that rate continued. The numbers peaked in 1991 largely because of better diagnosis and screening, especially for prostate and colorectal cancers, according to the study....

But when the 14.7-megapixel Canon G10 arrived, I was surprised at how sturdy it is (and still slips into my shirt pocket!). Without glancing at the instruction manual, I popped in the battery and a little SD card from my wife’s point-and-shoot and headed out. Right away I was thrown back to being eleven years old again, taking pictures just because I could. It was pure joy. I left the next day for a weeklong assignment in LA and brought the G10 along....

This new system isn’t meant to replace the company’s well-established line of DSLR cameras though, rather the EOS R was built to seamlessly integrate with Canon’s massive selection of EF, EF-S, TS-E and MP-E lenses. This is possible thanks to the introduction of three new mount adapters. Here’s everything you need to know about the system at a glance: Sensor: -The EOS R uses a 30.3 MP CMOS sensor with an ISO range of 100-40,000 (expandable to 102,400)....

A great many of those eye-candy photos were created by one man, Zolt Levay, who joined the then-newly-formed Hubble organization in 1983 and has been there ever since. He’s the guy who takes the data that scientists collect with the telescope and re-mixes it into images made for public consumption. When we decided to honor Hubble’s heritage with a gallery of 26 photos—one for each year of its orbital tenure, plus the official 25th-anniversary image—Levay seemed like the ideal person to curate it....

This means that the Anker Life Q35 wireless headphones—with a juicy frequency range from custom 40mm silk-diaphragm drivers—is less than $100, down considerably from its $129.99 retail price. Multi-mode noise canceling allows you to choose between Transport, Outdoor, and Indoor modes for customized noise canceling, with two microphones on each earcup detecting and filtering out distracting noises around you. High-resolution Bluetooth support means you can pick up details, like a synth line, that you couldn’t hear before, and the aforementioned luscious drivers reproduce extended frequencies (up to 40kHz) so it sounds like you’re in the recording room....

The electronics company announced nine new 4K TVs coming to consumers. To put more stuff on those screens, Sony also announced partnerships with companies like Netflix, which will be producing its original series House of Cards in 4K, and move older shows, like Breaking Bad, into the format. Sony’s also using its feature film arm, Sony Pictures_, _to make sure its cameras are being used and produced in the format....