Sam Miller

Green insect turns a puzzling shade of hot pink

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a startling discovery: a hot pink leaf-masquerading katydid (Arota festae), striking a pose in the glow of a…

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Best New Movies and TV (3/20–22)

Want more TV and movie picks? Subscribe to our weekly Streamliner newsletter here. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios, Searchlight), Prime, Erin Simkin/HBO What a week. We went from thinking a new season of The Bachelorette was set to air on Sunday to seeing it unceremoniously yanked from the schedule. Clearly, that’s not…

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‘Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate’

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday defended strikes on Iran’s infrastructure since the U.S. and Israel began their joint war against the country in February, saying “sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.” His comments came just hours after President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he was giving Iranian leadership 48 hours to…

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How to avoid baking dense or dry cakes

How to avoid baking dense or dry cakes

Regardless of whether there’s an actual occasion to mark, a cake is always a cause for celebration. That is, unless something has gone awry in baking it. We’ve all been there, and I can tell you based on personal experience that a botched cake is just as powerfully disappointing as a successful one is thrilling….

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