Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

Charles Mitchell

iPhone 17 Series Redefines Design, Cameras, and Performance

Apple's September 2025 "Awe Dropping" release was one of the most technically ambitious reworks of its flagship smartphone lineup in years. Four phones the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max come with sweeping changes in materials, display technology, camera systems, and silicon...
James Thompson

NASA’s Perseverance Detects Potential Biosignature in Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel Rocks

It started as a routine inspection of a light-colored outcrop in Mars' Jezero Crater. But when Perseverance's instruments imaged the Bright Angel formation's fine-grained mudstones, the information uncovered something much more tantalizing: a suite of minerals and organic markers that, on Earth, typically lead back to microbial life. The...
Charles Mitchell

Ukraine’s September Strikes Cripple Russian Refineries, Strain Power Grids

During the last month, Ukraine's strategy in the war has shifted into a precision infrastructure warfare phase, as deep-strike drone campaigns against Russian refineries have been followed by frantic attempts to reinforce its own damaged energy network. The fruits of the effort are seen on the battlefield and in...