Always Play Podcasts And Videos At 2x Speed? There May Be Some Drawbacks To ThatHow do you listen to recorded information? Do you listen at the regular speed, or are you among the many who digest podcasts, audiobooks, or even recorded lectures at increased playback speeds? It might be tempting to think that the faster the playback speed you’re able to follow then the quicker you’ll be able to...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Finds Evidence Of "Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin AtmosphereNASA's Parker Solar Probe Finds Evidence Of "Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin AtmosphereIf it holds up, this could explain an enduring mystery about our host star.The Parker Solar Probe in the Sun's atmosphere (illustration).Image credit: NASAA study looking at data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe...

In New "Game-Changer", Scientists Extract 24-Million-Year-Old Protein Fragments From Extinct Rhino ToothScientists have got their hands on the oldest animal proteins yet, extracted from 18-million-year-old fossilized mammal teeth in East Africa, pushing the record back by an astonishing 14 to 15 million years. Even older partial fragments of proteins were obtained in North America from a rhino...

Elephants Use All Kinds Of Gestures To Communicate – They Just Want ApplesUsing gestures is part of communication and language and can be found across the animal world, from fish to apes and birds. However, having more complex gestures is something that has really only been seen in primates. Researchers took a closer look at gestures in elephants to find out if they can use them to achieve a...

100 Years Since The Scopes (Monkey) Trial: How Much Has Changed Since America's "Trial Of The Century"?Who gets to decide what children are taught in school? This politically charged question may resonate with many public debates today concerning contentious topics such as gender, sexuality, or climate change, but it is far from being a new problem. In fact, this year marks the centenary of...

A 4.9 Million-Year-Old Ecosystem Is Beautifully Preserved In A Tennessee SinkholeThousands upon thousands of prehistoric animals are pristinely preserved at the site of an ancient sinkhole-pond in the US. The mind-blowing site is a snapshot of a beautiful ecosystem that thrived nearly 5 million years ago, a time when rhinos, tapirs, giant salamanders, red pandas, and giant flying squirrels...

Dangerous Radiation Awaits Astronauts On Mars – New Mission Could Work Out Just How MuchElton John was right: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. And not just because it’s cold as hell. The combination of a thin atmosphere and lack of magnetic field means that the planet experiences higher levels of radiation – both energetic particles and energetic light – compared to Earth. But...

What The UFO? Inside The US’s Biggest "Alien" Sighting DatabaseHave you ever seen something strange in the sky? Image credit: Raggedstone/Shutterstock.comOn the internet, there is a particularly fascinating resource – NUFORC (the National UFO Reporting Center). Over the past five decades, it has aimed to receive, record, corroborate, and document reports from individuals who have claimed...

The main quest is something that fuels most games, but it can be a hard thing to get right. From the characters to the plot moving the game forward, everything has to be in synergy to nail a main journey. Sometimes, that just doesn't happen, even for some of the best games out there.

Its almost unheard of to find an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT below MSRP, and yet it has finally happened, but only for UK shoppers. For everyone else, prices seem to be dropping so it could soon make upgrading your rig to this level of performance as affordable as it should always have been.The RX 9070 XT is without doubt one of the best graphics cards you can buy right now. While it might not be as powerful as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, the mid-range AMD graphics card delivered solid performance in our AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review and should be great value for money at the cards MSRP of $599 / 569. The card even performs up to 27% better than at the time of its launch on select games, following the release of the 25.6.3 AMD drivers, but there's always been one small issue: that price tag. Continue reading The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has finally dropped below MSRP, but only for someMORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 9070 XT review