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Caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive drug on the planet. Like all good things in this world, it should be consumed in moderation—but PopSci editors...
This week on Test Dummy, Jess attempts to lower her stress and chill out using the meditation app Headspace. Eleanor Cummins, a freelance science and technology...
This week on Test Dummy, Jess takes the Theragun G3PRO for a spin. The percussive therapy device claims to improve muscle strength, flexibility and performance—but does...
Watch a live recording of PopSci’s hit podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week and #stayhome to help stop the spread of COVID-19. After all,...
2019 was a big year for astronomy. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space, a Japanese robot landed on an asteroid, and a Chinese spacecraft became the first-ever...
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...
