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The future might already be written. Cheer, shudder, or eye-roll in disgust, but history shows that what awaits us is often spelled out in the pages...
The Popular Science “Noise” issue features hundreds of sounds. What follows are some of the weirdest facts from the magazine, plus the croaks, beeps, echoes, and...
We all know the is-a-tomato-a-fruit debate (the answer is yes, but you still shouldn’t put it in a fruit salad). Now we’d like to bring you...
“If the sun is hot how is outer space cold ?” Excellent question, Jacoby Brissett, current quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts. It turns out that outer...
TWO MOLES. One is a unit in chemistry used to count really really tiny stuff like atoms and molecules. The other is a naked mole rat...
Dinosaurs thrived in the warm temperatures and mild weather of what we call the Mesozoic Era. But 66 million years ago, the world’s climate drastically changed....
In the 2015 sci-fi film The Martian, a marooned astronaut survives on the red planet eating nothing but potatoes. But since there are no real humans...
Death might be life’s natural and unavoidable conclusion, but humans have ensured that what happens to our bodies afterward is anything but. For more than a...
Everybody poops—around a pound a day, in fact—and everybody wants a clean butt. Good old TP has come a long way since the first commercial toilet...
PopSci’s Rob Verger recently flew in an F-16 fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite demonstration team, the Thunderbirds. And though he was grateful for the...
