All posts tagged: Volume

6 Best Hair Powder for Men to Add Texture and Volume in 2026

6 Best Hair Powder for Men to Add Texture and Volume in 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Best Strong Hold Hair Powder: American Crew Men’s Hair Boost Powder American Crew Men’s Hair Boost Powder About as classic a texturizing powder as can be, American Crew’s Boost will give you the lift you need to get through the day, confident that your hair won’t flop and fail you. Unscented, paraben-free and with a matte finish, it’s practically invisible in your hair without being sticky. Pro Tip: It sets quickly, so you might struggle to restyle later in the day. What Is Hair Powder? Welcome to the new world of men’s hair styling; part dry shampoo and part powdered gel, hair powder is a daily hair styling tool that’s non-stick, natural-looking and capable of supporting even the wackiest styles throughout the day. They add volume and texture to flat or thin hair while deeply nourishing the roots, making them an essential part of your styling routine. Simply scatter a small amount over your hair while wet or just blow-dried and gently coax your hair into a style you love. Of course, there are different …

This Mediterranean‑style diet is linked to a slower loss of brain volume as we age

This Mediterranean‑style diet is linked to a slower loss of brain volume as we age

Published by José Betancourt

The Mediterranean diet – rich in olive oil, fish, vegetables and legumes – has long been linked to better heart health. Growing evidence suggests it may also help support brain health as we age, with a brain-focused variation of the diet drawing increasing scientific attention. It is called the Mind diet. The name stands for Mediterranean-Dash Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay – though what matters more than the acronym is what it actually involves: plenty of green vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts, berries, poultry and fish, with olive oil as the main cooking fat, and limited amounts of red meat, butter, cheese, fried food and sweets. It combines the most brain-friendly elements of two well-studied eating patterns: the traditional Mediterranean diet and the Dash diet, which was originally developed to lower blood pressure. A recent analysis from the long-running Framingham heart study examined the diets of adults aged 60 and over and assessed how these dietary patterns were associated with brain scan data collected later in the study. Those who followed the Mind diet most closely …

Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Sports arenas across  the United States could soon have a new, jiggly way to measure the excitement of a game. Jell-O, the company most known for its physics-defying gelatin dessert, is introducing a device it says can calculate fan intensity in a stadium and then visually represent that data in real time as a jiggling mass of Jell-O. The rowdier the crowd gets, the more the Jell-O jiggles. The company is calling its bizarre invention the JELL-OMETER. It’s already been used at a professional hockey game in New York and is expected to be on its way to other stadiums soon. Anyone who has been to a sporting event has likely seen messages on the jumbotron urging fans to “Get Loud” and cheer. Those systems typically use decibel readers to measure sound. The JELL-OMETER takes a different approach and tries to measure fan energy instead. The company claims the device uses “proprietary plate-sensing” technology to capture sound pressure from the …

Contributor: Unspoken cost of U.S. military is a stunning volume of pollution

Contributor: Unspoken cost of U.S. military is a stunning volume of pollution

Published by Sam Flores

What are we not talking about after a month of war in Iran? The news will continue to question the strategy or lack thereof. It will count casualties, rising prices, the remaining days until November — but what it will not tally is the egregious cost to the planet. The numbers are dumbfounding. An F-16 in combat consumes as much fuel in one hour as the average American driver uses in three years. Forty-two F-117 fighter jets flying 1,300 combat sorties — the figure for the first month of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 — produce 52 billion pounds of carbon pollution. To match that output, a Boeing 747 would need to make more than 100,000 round trips between LAX and JFK. At 40 commercial flights a day, that’s almost seven years’ worth of aviation — for a few weeks of one war. A pair of Apache helicopter battalions burns 60,000 gallons of jet fuel in a single raid. A B-52 Stratofortress gulps 55 gallons of fuel every minute it is airborne, or 3,300 gallons …

A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University

Published by José Betancourt

From Yale pro­fes­sor Paul North comes a chap­ter-by-chap­ter study of Karl Marx’s Cap­i­tal: Cri­tique of Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my, Vol­ume 1. Accord­ing to the descrip­tion that accom­pa­nies the course on YouTube, this “book from 1872 is still the best guide to the preda­to­ry eco­nom­ic and social sys­tem with­in which we live. The book solves five basic mys­ter­ies in our social world. The mys­ter­ies are: why social class­es strug­gle against one anoth­er, why human beings are in the thrall of things, how a quan­ti­ty of mon­ey turns into more mon­ey with­out seem­ing to add any­thing, why some peo­ple are forced to work and the more they work the less they make pro­por­tion­al to their effort, and final­ly, and why it is so hard to trans­form the sys­tem for the bet­ter.” You can watch the 19 lec­tures from the course in the playlist above. Prof. North is the co-edi­tor of the new Eng­lish trans­la­tion and crit­i­cal edi­tion of Cap­i­tal Vol­ume 1, and it’s the text used in the course. If you’re inter­est­ed in delv­ing deep­er into Marx’s Cap­i­tal, see …

Brain volume in bipolar disorder increases during depression and shrinks during remission

Brain volume in bipolar disorder increases during depression and shrinks during remission

Published by José Betancourt

A longitudinal neuroimaging study comparing individuals with bipolar disorder and healthy participants found that bipolar disorder patients with a higher number of depressive episodes tended to show increases in gray matter volume of the right exterior cerebellum. The paper was published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition characterized by extreme shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels. People with bipolar disorder experience episodes of mania or hypomania, which involve elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, and reduced need for sleep. These episodes alternate with depressive episodes, marked by sadness, loss of interest, fatigue, and feelings of hopelessness. Research suggests that differences in brain structure, neurotransmitter systems, and emotional regulation networks may play a role in the development of bipolar disorder. This disorder typically begins in late adolescence or early adulthood, although it can appear earlier or later in life. Study author Florian Thomas-Odenthal and his colleagues wanted to explore changes in gray matter volume of the brain in individuals suffering from bipolar disorder with and without recurring depressive or manic …

Bring the Volume Bar Back to Your iPhone’s Lock Screen in 4 Easy Steps

Bring the Volume Bar Back to Your iPhone’s Lock Screen in 4 Easy Steps

Published by skeptic

The volume buttons on the side of your iPhone can change the volume of whatever music or podcast you’re listening to without unlocking your device. Those buttons make it easy to increase or decrease your volume a set amount, but they could leave you choosing between a volume that is slightly too loud or a bit too quiet. Thankfully, you can bring the volume bar back to your device’s lock screen, giving you more precise control over your iPhone’s volume without unlocking your device. Apple removed the volume bar from your lock screen when the company released iOS 16 in 2022. But when the company released iOS 18.2 in 2024, that update gave you the option to bring the volume bar back to your iPhone’s lock screen.  If you like using the volume bar, you can bring it back to your lock screen. Here’s how to do it in a few easy steps. How to get the volume bar on your iPhone 1. Open Settings.2. Tap Accessibility.3. Tap Audio & Visual under Hearing.4. Tap the toggle next to …

I didn’t realize Android’s volume controls could look this good

I didn’t realize Android’s volume controls could look this good

Published by skeptic

Your phone’s volume overlay — the user interface that allows you to manage your volume and alerts settings — probably isn’t something you think about often. Each operating system has its own style of overlay, whether we’re talking about iOS 26’s Liquid Glass or Android 16’s Material 3 Expressive. In fact, each subset of Android features a different volume interface design, which is why the overlay style differs between Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, OnePlus, and other Android brands. I thought I was stuck with the volume overlay that came with my Android phone, but it turns out that isn’t the case. There’s a handy customization app called Volume Styles on the Google Play Store, and it makes it possible to select a custom volume overlay for your Android phone. You can make your Android volume interface look like a Windows PC, or like an iPhone, or almost anything else. Beyond that, Volume Styles can add extra shortcuts and toggles to the stock Android volume overlay, bringing functionality alongside the stylish designs. It’s one of the …

HBO Max on Last Mover Advantage, Quality Over Volume, UK Launch Date

HBO Max on Last Mover Advantage, Quality Over Volume, UK Launch Date

Published by Daniella Wilson

HBO Max, the streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), will continue its international expansion with launches in the U.K. and Ireland on March 26, top executives unveiled in London on Monday. The streamer will be available directly via hbomax.com, as well as via launch partners Sky, which was previously announced, and the newly unveiled Prime Video. JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming & games at WBD, and Andrew Georgiou, president and managing director for U.K. and Ireland and of WBD Sports Europe, touted the opportunity in the new markets, suggesting that the streaming age had turned the traditional benefits of the first mover advantage on their head. “Some may think we’re late to the streaming party, but our focus has been on harnessing the benefits of what we call the last mover advantage,” Perrette said. “We are likely the last scaled global streamer to come to market. We’ve tried to learn from the rest, and on this journey of strategic iteration and refinement that we’ve been on over these last several years, it’s led us to …

Sex differences in brain volume emerge before birth, groundbreaking research suggests

Sex differences in brain volume emerge before birth, groundbreaking research suggests

Published by José Betancourt

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides a detailed model of how the human brain develops during the transition from the womb to early infancy. The findings indicate that distinct growth patterns for different brain tissues and sex-based differences in brain volume are established between mid-pregnancy and the first weeks of life. This research offers a continuous view of how the brain expands during a foundational period that was previously difficult to map. The perinatal period involves rapid biological changes that establish the core architecture of the human brain. This phase includes the processes where cells proliferate, migrate to their correct locations, and begin forming complex connections. Scientists have often studied prenatal development and postnatal development separately because of the technical challenges involved in imaging fetuses compared to newborns. This separation has historically made it difficult to understand exactly how growth trajectories evolve as a fetus becomes an infant. To bridge this gap, a research team led by the University of Cambridge aimed to create a unified model of early brain growth. Yumnah T. …