• There will be more use of light and transparency.


• There will be redesigned app icons, but he does not expect them to be round.


• Toolbars and tabs will be redesigned, with a focus on pop-out menus.


• Home Screen widgets have been redesigned to match the new "digital glass" look.


• Safari will feature a more transparent, glassy address bar.


• The glass-like design changes should extend to the Camera app, which will be revamped with a focus on simplicity.

Last month, a replica World War One plane finally took to the skies above a Royal Air Force station in Scotland. It’s been a long time coming—volunteers at the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland have been working on the project for 25 years, as originally reported by the BBC. 

“Every single nut and bolt has been checked, every single bracket has been checked, every single piece of wire has been checked. You don’t cobble these things together. When you’re going to fly it, it has to be done right,” chairman Mike Harper told the BBC. “If it was for a museum, if it was just going on display we would probably have finished it within a few years. But the meticulous attention to detail to get this thing in the air is what’s taken the length of time.”

The plane is a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, a biplane (a type of aircraft with two stacked wings) fighter aircraft the British designed in 1914, built in 1915, and tested in 1916 in response to Germany’s monoplane aircraft, the Fokker Eindecker. Though the planes were “modestly successful,” they quickly became obsolete in the face of Germany’s new Albatros aircrafts. The name Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter comes from the unique arrangement of its struts (the thin beams that support the top wings), though the society’s volunteers have more sensibly nicknamed their replica “Sophie.” 

For now, Sophie is undergoing test flights. Once it completes the test phase and accomplishes five flight hours, it’ll be allowed to carry an additional person in the passenger seat behind the pilot, per the BBC.

“I’m used to flying modern aeroplanes from the 50s and 60s—the classics—and they’re very different from this aeroplane to fly. This is very much more of a challenge,” aircraft inspector Tim Rayner, who pilots the test flights, told the BBC after May’s 15-minute flight. “The controls are nowhere near as responsive as they became as we developed better technologies. This is 1915 and it’s not that many years since the first flight so you’ve got to look at it as flying as you would expect for an aircraft of that era.”

Talk about an ambitious hobby.

The post Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight. appeared first on Popular Science.

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1. Open the TV app on your chosen device.


2. Scroll down the Watch Now category and select WWDC 2025. Alternatively, type "WWDC" into the Search field and select WWDC 2025 from the results.


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Renters outnumber homeowners in over 200 U.S. suburbs, according to a new report that reveals a shift in the suburban housing market. Andra Hopulele outlines the findings for Point2Home, noting that the number of renters in suburbs has not taken a linear path: “Case in point, the number of renter-dominated suburbs has fallen compared to 2018, when a total of 233 suburbs were renter-majority. But, it remains high given that, traditionally, the suburbs were oases of homeownership away from the renter-majority urban spaces.” In sheer numbers, there are roughly 231,000 more renter households in the suburbs now than in 2018.

According to the report, “Between 2018 and 2023, the number of renter households increased faster in the suburbs than the main city in five of the 20 largest U.S. metros. Dallas was chief among them, with one more metro (Miami) seeing its share of renter households expand at quite similar rates in both the city and its suburbs.” Four of the top five suburbs with the most renter households added were in Texas.

The change is driven by shifts in work patterns, housing affordability (or lack thereof), and a greater availability of rental options in suburban areas. According to Hopulele, “The rise of the renter suburb is not a blip. It’s a fundamental shift in how Americans live and think about housing.”

• Suburbs
• Population Growth
• Renters
• Tenants
• Housing Costs
• Housing Supply

• The thinnest iPhone ever, measuring just 5.5mm at its thinnest point, but possibly up to 9.5mm with the rear camera bump included


• 6.6-inch OLED display with Face ID and a potentially smaller Dynamic Island


• ProMotion support for up to a 120Hz refresh rate (disputed by one source)


• A19 chip instead of A19 Pro chip


• A single 48-megapixel rear camera on an all-new elongated camera bar


• A 24-megapixel front camera


• A single speaker in the earpiece, no bottom speaker


• Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip


• Apple-designed C1 modem for cellular connectivity


• eSIM only, no physical SIM card slot worldwide


• USB-C port


• High-density battery


• Camera Control button


• Action button


• MagSafe


• 12GB of RAM, exceeding the 8GB minimum for Apple Intelligence


• Apple reportedly plans to release an iPhone 17 Air battery case

While it may look like a blazing red ruby, the 2.33-carat Winston Red Diamond is just that—a diamond. One of the rarest diamonds in the world, the Winston Red Diamond is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC–right near the more famous Hope Diamond. 

To learn more about this exceedingly rare Fancy Red diamond, Smithsonian gem and mineral curator Gabriela Farfan and colleagues spent two years researching its history and tracing its geological past. The team officially categorized the diamond and also narrowed down its potential country of origin as Venezuela or Brazil. The findings are detailed in a study published June 6 in the journal Gems & Gemology.

Ronald Winston, son of famed American jeweler Harry Winston, donated the roughly 8 millimeter in diameter diamond to the Smithsonian in 2023. It is the fifth-largest confirmed red diamond in the world. Based on its old mine brilliant cut, gemologists believe that it was likely mined before the middle of the 20th century. This older style of cutting diamonds predates the more modern brilliant cuts seen today. 

Gemologists estimate that one in every 25 million diamonds is fancy red. According to the Smithsonian, this specific red diamond’s documented history begins in 1938, when it belonged to the Cartier Family. The Cartiers then sold it to the Maharaja of Jamnagar India sometime before the 1980s. Winston purchased the stone from the Maharaja in the late 1980s and the diamond once adorned a ring worn by actress Brooke Shields in 1989.

At 2.23 carats, it is smaller than the largest confirmed fancy red diamond. The Moussaieff Red clocks in at 5.11 carats and has been displayed in museums around the world. On April 1,the Winston Red Diamond officially went on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. 

Scientifically describing and detailing the Winston Red’s color and history was one of the major goals of this new study. Red diamonds are exceedingly rare, which makes studying them equally difficult. 

A diamond’s color is largely determined by its chemical make-up. For example, a traditional white diamond is mostly composed of carbon. Small amounts of nitrogen will give a diamond a more yellow hue. If those nitrogen atoms have enough time–several millions of years–to aggregate in groups, the diamond will appear more brown. After even more years, if the nitrogen atoms form in groups of three surrounding a missing carbon atom, it will turn a yellow color. If the element boron replaces carbon, it produces a blue hue. 

Red and pink diamonds don’t owe their color to chemistry. The extreme pressures and temperatures deep within the Earth can lead to plastic deformation within the rock. During plastic deformation, the atomic bonds in the diamond break and re-form along imperfections called dislocations. These deformations will change the diamond’s atomic structure and affect how the light interacts with the stone. It’s this deflection that gives it its rosy hue. Pink diamonds get their color in a similar way, since the color red is a more saturated pink.

The Winston Red is also considered a Fancy Red diamond, meaning its color is pure red. It does not have any other modifying hues like purple, brown, or orange. Only 0.04 percent of fancy colored diamonds have this Fancy red color grade. The chances of finding a Fancy red diamond like the Winston Red is about one in 25 million diamonds.

[ Related: The mystery behind pink diamonds just got some more clarity. ]

To learn more, the team used several techniques including photoluminescence, spectroscopy, and cathodoluminescence to study the precious stone. These analyses confirmed the presence of plastic deformation bands and a pattern that officially classifies it as a type IaAB (A<B) Group 1 “pink” diamond. The diamond underwent significant pressure and temperature conditions when it was forming. They also found that the Winston Red gets its pure crimson color because it had a careful balance of the right pressure and temperature during its formation.

Based on its mineralogical characteristics and mid-20th century cut, the team believes that it likely originated in Venezuela or Brazil. However, its precise place of origin is still unknown.  

The post That’s no ruby. It’s an extremely rare red diamond. appeared first on Popular Science.

In his seven decades traversing our incredible planet–and having species named for him along the way–natural historian Sir David Attenborough has seen more of what Earth has to offer than most. However, even he was in for some surprises while working on the new feature-length documentary Ocean with David Attenborough. From stunning underwater ecosystems teeming with life, to the harmful effects of bottom trawling, the film shows that the mighty ocean still has a lot to teach us–even someone with credentials like Attenborough. 

“After living for nearly 100 years on this planet, I now understand the most important place is not on land, but at sea,” Attenborough states at the start of the film.

To learn more about the making of the film, Popular Science sat down with Toby Nowlan, one of the film’s directors, and marine ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Enric Sala. Answers have been condensed for clarity.

Laura Baisas: What was the most surprising thing you learned about our oceans throughout the course of working on the film?

Toby Nowlan: For me, there were two big take homes that really hit me hard as soon as I started making the film that got me really, really excited. The biggest one was how capable the ocean is of recovery. The process of protecting the ocean is very different from protecting the same area of land. When you protect an area of ocean, that space fills back up with life again, quicker and in a more spectacular fashion than anything anyone had dared to imagine was possible. And not only that, but it floods out, overflows, spills out into surrounding areas of ocean, and revives huge other areas of ocean. That process is a winning process for everyone, for every living thing on earth, for all the fishing communities, for all marine life, for all terrestrial life, for our breathable atmosphere, stable climate. The other thing that hit me was just that understanding that the ocean does not belong to a single person, does not belong to a group of people, group of companies or individuals or governments. It is for everyone on Earth. It’s our greatest shared asset. 

Enric Sala: For me, I’ve been working on ocean science and conservation for more than 35 years, but I had not seen bottom trawling underwater. That was the surprising thing for me. Even though I knew about the impacts of bottom trawling, I had never seen it. Even for a scientist who is used to working with data to understand things, there is nothing like seeing things with your own eyes.

LB: That’s a perfect segue to my next question. Why did you feel that showing bottom trawling was so important?

TN: It’s the story of the generation. We’re talking about something that was invented here off the south coast of the United Kingdom 700 years ago, and we knew it was a bad thing. There were these letters of complaint to the king 700 years ago, but back then it was these small boats with sails on. Fast forward 700 years, and it’s still happening, and not just that, but on a huge scale, thousands of times every day, around the ocean. It’s been happening just below the surface, below the waves, and for that simple reason, it’s been concealed from the world. So it was a really clear mission. We’re literally just showing what is happening around our ocean every single day. 

ES: As Toby said, in the 1300s people started bottom trawling, but we didn’t measure the catch really, until recently, just a few decades ago. But when scientists started looking at historical catches, we realized that today, for every hour spent bottom trawling, we are catching just 6 percent of what we did 120 years ago. Imagine what was there 700 years ago, right? This practice in the North Sea, for example, and English channel has been conducted non stop on a weekly basis, for almost seven centuries. 

[ Related: Humans have only seen 0.001 percent of the ocean floor. ]

TN: It’s just worth adding to that that this film actually isn’t an anti-fishing film. If anything, it’s a pro-fisheries film, it’s a pro ocean abundance film, ocean full of life, pro-thriving planet. And bottom trawling our protected areas is not how we get there.

LB: What was the biggest technical and scientific challenge?

TN: The trawling was technically difficult. You’re dealing with depth, filming in low light, a lot of movement. There’s so much turbulence down there that you’re dealing when. Then you see the violence of the process. These things are just thundering along the seabed, smashing into every rock and boulder and become this sort of self-created bulldozer. It took a lot of finessing to make sure it was at exactly the right depth, exactly the right distance behind the boat, and that it was just completely flat. 

ES: Scientifically, the challenge was to select the minimum number of facts to tell a story. Finding the science to tell a story was the easy part, because we have so many studies telling us what the impacts on the ocean are, and hundreds of scientific and economic studies showing the benefits of protected areas. Every statement in the film is supported by peer reviewed scientific studies.

LB: What do you hope people take away from the film and learn about our oceans in general?

TN: The take away is hope, and this is real. The process of recovery in the ocean is quicker and bigger and really works more than we’d ever thought possible. It’s already happening at every scale around the world. Wherever we’ve protected the ocean, it’s recovering faster on a greater scale than we’d ever imagined possible. 

ES: Protecting the land is very different from protecting the sea. If you create a national park on land, you protect mostly what lives within the boundaries of the protected area, so things can’t get out. But in the ocean, because of the water, many fish and lobster and scallops, they produce all these eggs. They release eggs into the water that can be dispersed for hundreds to 1,000s of miles, and that power of regeneration beyond the boundaries of the protected area, that’s the biggest difference between protecting a place.

LB: Finally, if you could be one sea creature for a day, what would it be and why?

ES: I wouldn’t like to be one of those mackerel on a bait ball, for sure! I’d like to be one of the curious dolphins, because they seem to have this permanent smile.

TN: I’m an absolute bird geek and mine would be the nice and albatross that you see from the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. These are the longest lived birds in the world, and when they feed their chicks, they can disappear for weeks at a time and cover hundreds of 1,000s of miles. They probably see more of the ocean than any other living thing, these birds, and I love that. So, they’re the ultimate ocean travelers.

Ocean with David Attenborough will debut on June 7 and stream globally the next day on Disney+ and Hulu on World’ Oceans Day. 

The post Q&A with the team behind ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’ appeared first on Popular Science.

A tiny, single-seat electric car is taking Japan by storm. The mibot, built by KG Motors, has pre-sold 3,300 units before it has even hit the streets — more than all of the Toyota EVs sold in 2024.

As Emily Forlini notes in an article in PC Mag, the mini-car is ideal for short trips, with a 62-mile range and 37 mph top speed. “The tiny EV gets over-the-air tech updates, has air conditioning and a small trunk. It charges up in five hours on a standard 100V household outlet; no need for "special charging equipment." At $7,000, the mibot is about half the price of Japan’s most popular EV, the Nissan Sakura.”

The design could become hugely popular in dense cities with narrow streets and low speed limits. According to Forlini, “Japan has been slow to embrace EVs, but it has more hybrids than traditional gas-powered cars on the road.” Although 55 percent of new cars sold in Japan are hybrids, just 2 percent are fully electric. “Perhaps a cheap, small EV can carve out a unique place in the Japanese market.”

• Japan
• Electric Cars
• Tiny Cars
• Small Cars
• Electric Vehicles

Does anybody actually like software subscriptions? Sure, it’s cheaper in the moment, but you’re literally never done paying for things you used to be able to own. If you want to go back to that golden era of software ownership, check this out. Instead of paying $99.99 every year for Microsoft 365, you can get a Microsoft Office Pro lifetime license for only $49.97 (usually $219.99).

This version of Office comes with lifetime licenses for:

• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• OneNote
• Publisher
• Access
• Teams (free version)

So you’ll have everything you need to do business, all in one suite. From working with documents to wrangling data and creating powerful presentations, you’ll find plenty of new features to help you be more productive at all stages.

Many of the tools within the suite were redesigned to be equally useful for data analysts mining enormous sets of data for company reports, designers seeking inspiration on how to present their work, and more. These applications haven’t left anything out.

The familiar ribbon-based user interface offers quick access to its available tools, features, and customizations. Details such as the indentation size of type in documents, layout, fonts, and much more can be easily customized by users. You no longer need to sacrifice work-related functionality to create more aesthetically pleasing documents, even when creating presentations, formatting emails, and more.

Now you can say goodbye to monthly or annual software fees. All languages are supported; naturally, only the best support is provided, such as free customer support. Updates are included, too.

This is a one-time purchase for a license that can be installed on one Windows PC for use at work or home. It will be associated with the actual device, rather than your Microsoft account. Your download links will be delivered instantly after purchase.

It’s only $49.97 to get a Microsoft Office Pro lifetime license, but it’s not going to stay that way.

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