56+ min ago (306+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 30, 2025 11:00 AM EST Ekaterina Goncharova via Getty Images Two years later, that private gesture blossomed into a public ritual when Rockefeller Center erected its first official Christmas tree, this one adorned with hundreds of electric lights. Over subsequent decades, the tree grew steadily taller, brighter, and more elaborate, until it became as essential to the American Christmas as Santa Claus himself. Homeowners sometimes submit candidates, hoping their tree will achieve brief immortality, but Pauze often discovers promising evergreens himself while roaming backcountry roads, keeping a mental tally of future contenders. Finding the tree is just the beginning. Pauze's crew climbs into its canopy to inspect the structural integrity of each limb, ensuring that the tree can safely support the nine-hundred-pound Swarovski crystal star destined for its spire. For…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (704+ words) Tony Ware is Managing Editor, Gear & Commerce for PopSci.com. He's been writing about how to make and break music since the mid-'90s when his college newspaper said they already had a film critic, but maybe he wanted to look through the free promo CDs. Immediately hooked on outlining intangibles, he's covered everything audio for countless alt. weeklies, international magazines, websites, and heated bar trivia contests ever since. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and an 8-pound Aussie Shepherd-Japanese Chin mix who loves exploring national parks and impressing the thru-hikers. We're big fans of Sony active noise cancellation headphones, declaring the current-gen. WH-1000XM6 a top pick for most people in our best travel headphones roundup. And if you're in the market for headphones (or earbuds) to take on planes, trains, and every terminal in between, it's the best time…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (195+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 30, 2025 3:23 PM EST Prefer more screen real estate? The 15-inch MacBook Air with M4 keeps the same lightweight design but stretches things out to a 15.3-inch panel that's fantastic for split-screen multitasking, editing timelines, or just having Netflix running while you work. You still get long battery life, Apple Intelligence support, and that "throw it in a bag and forget it's there" feeling'just with more pixels. Not everyone needs a workstation. ASUS's Vivobook Go 15.6-inch is a classic "get stuff done" laptop: AMD Ryzen 3 CPU, 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD, and a 15.6-inch full HD display in a slim, lightweight chassis. It's a solid pick for students, basic office work, or a secondary machine for travel'and exactly the kind of everyday laptop you want to grab when Cyber Monday drops the…...

3+ hour, 44+ min ago (249+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 30, 2025 1:12 PM EST One of the world's most famous birds has returned to her nesting site. Wisdom, the 75-year-old albatross is known as the world's oldest breeding bird. Earlier this month, she returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the central Pacific Ocean for the 2025-2026 nesting season. In 1956, wildlife biologist Chandler Robbins first identified and banded Wisdom after she laid one egg. Since then, Wisdom has produced an estimated 50 to 60 eggs and as many as 30 chicks have fledged in her lifetime. Last year, Wisdom became the world's oldest known wild bird to successfully lay an egg at the estimated age of 74." Deep-sea sponges and greenland sharks are also known in the animal kingdom for their advanced reproductive ages. The colonial sponges are believed to possibly reproduce for…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago (104+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 30, 2025 11:05 AM EST Samsung's S90F is the kind of TV that makes you suddenly care about picture quality. The OLED panel serves up inky blacks and punchy highlights, while the 4K AI upscaling and high refresh rate keep movies and games looking sharp and smooth. It's packed with gaming-friendly features, but it's just as good for binging shows with the lights off and a pile of leftovers on the coffee table. The best Black Friday deals for 2025 By Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware...

7+ hour, 1+ min ago (757+ words) This is a great time to stock up on fancy-and-effective skincare products for low prices during Amazon's Cyber Monday sale. The post Amazon is blowing out high-end Elemis skincare products during its Cyber Monday sale appeared first on Popular Science. I've been getting into skincare. It took me a long time to come around on it, but my skin looks and feels a lot better now that I actually take care of it. Elemis makes excellent products that work, smell, and feel very good. They're basically all on sale during Amazon's Cyber Monday sale. Whether you're an experienced skincare expert or just starting out your efforts, now is a great time to stock up on the good stuff. ELEMIS Pro-Collagen Marine Cream (50ml) $101 (was $145) [Elemis hydrating day cream] This is essential skin care for dry winter days. This is the flagship…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago (453+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 30, 2025 9:00 AM EST Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images December brings Moonfest "25 to a close with the last of three consecutive supermoons. As per The" Old Farmer"s Almanac, the aptly named Cold Moon will reach its full size on December 4 at 6:14 p.m. EST.While it won"t be quite as large as November"s most super of supermoons, it will" still be a fittingly impressive moon for a packed month of stargazing. To see the show, look to the constellation Gemini, in the eastern sky and will reach its greatest elevation above the horizon at about 2 a.m. The meteors will appear to originate from near the constellation"s twin stars Castor and Pollux, and will appear to move away from the constellation as they burn up in our atmosphere....

18+ hour, 14+ min ago (253+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 29, 2025 5:42 PM EST Greenworks 40V 20" Brushless Cordless Snow Blower (4.0Ah Battery & Charger) $299 (was $449) A 20-inch clearing width hits the sweet spot for walkways and driveways without being unwieldy. This 40V single-stage blower is much quieter and easier to maintain than gas, and the bundled 4.0Ah battery works with the rest of the 40V lineup. It's a solid way to prep for the first real snowstorm of the season. Greenworks 80V 21" Self-Propelled Cordless Lawn Mower (4.0Ah Battery & Rapid Charger) $399 ($599) If you want a true gas-replacement mower, this 80V self-propelled model is the move. The 21-inch deck is made for typical suburban yards, the brushless motor helps with efficiency and longevity, and the included 4.0Ah battery and rapid charger get you cutting quickly. LED headlights are a nice touch if you're squeezing in a mow at dusk after work....

22+ hour, 56+ min ago (507+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 29, 2025 1:00 PM EST One of the biggest changes introduced with iOS 26 was noticeable as soon as you rebooted your iPhone. The revamped Liquid Glass interface made icons, dialogs, and menus look a lot more rounded and translucent, and the same look expanded across iPadOS and macOS. While Liquid Glass immediately won a lot of fans, not everyone is thrilled'and with the rollout of iOS 26.1, Apple has given users a way to tone down the Liquid Glass effect quite dramatically. There's one main switch for this, which you can find by opening up the main iOS Settings menu, then tapping Display & Brightness, and Liquid Glass. You've then got two options to choose between: Clear (the original Liquid Glass look) and Tinted (which adds more of a solid background to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (367+ words) " The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 29, 2025 10:13 AM EST The human capacity for rational thinking makes us unique among the animal kingdom, according to wise, old Aristotle. However, an ever-growing body of research suggests that rationality might not be quite as distinctive a human quality as we might have thought." In a study recently published in the journal Science, researchers at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda presented chimpanzees with two boxes: one with food and one without a snack. They were initially given a clue as to which one had food. The team then provided the chimps with sequential clues of varying strength about which one contained a snack. "When the initial evidence was strong, the chimpanzees stuck with their original choice; when the new evidence clearly outweighed the first, they switched…...