A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255...
Archaeologists in Chelm, Poland have unearthed the remains of a 13th century child who was suspected of becoming a vampire after burial — including a torso...
Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It’s been used for food and cosmetics for generations… but it turns...
For the first time, geologists have taken a sample of Earth’s mantle rock — and it not only contains some surprises, but may offer a glimpse...
Imagine a Slim Jim that’s 20 feet long and weighs 200 pounds — that’s basically a python. And in Thailand and Vietnam, python farming is yielding...
The Space Race, the Cold War, and the Moon Landing all have an origin story connected to a small, obscure silver iron mining operation in the...
The $15,000 A.I. from 1983: Scraping, grinding, or drilling a hole through the thick, hard skull that evolution developed to protect our most sensitive contents might...
The $15,000 A.I. From 1983: Why Do We Put Holes In Our Head?: Edward Youmans founded The Popular Science Monthly in 1872, and the first issue...