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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

In our hit podcast, PopSci editors share the strangest facts they can find from the history of science, health, and technology.

Latest The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week Stories

Martian beavers, intentional explosions, and other weird facts from 150 years of PopSci

By PopSci Staff

/ Published May 18, 2022

Nuclear war inspired peacetime ‘gamma gardens’ for growing mutant plants

By PopSci Staff

/ Published March 9, 2022

The inside scoop on Apollo 10’s infamous floating turd

By PopSci Staff

/ Published February 23, 2022

Why young orphans were once used as human refrigerators

By PopSci Staff

/ Published February 9, 2022

Why some tiny frogs have tarantulas as bodyguards

By PopSci Staff

/ Published January 19, 2022

This noxious island is so full of snakes, people can’t even visit

By PopSci Staff

/ Published January 5, 2022

Our favorite science podcast episodes of 2021

By PopSci Editors

/ Published December 26, 2021

Spotted lanternfly goo is surprisingly tasty

By PopSci Staff

/ Published December 22, 2021

Inside the cutthroat world of competitive meat judging

By PopSci Staff

/ Published December 8, 2021

Death ‘by planet’ was surprisingly common in the 1600s

By PopSci Staff

/ Published November 24, 2021

How sexy Victorian mediums tricked scientists into believing in ectoplasm

By PopSci Staff

/ Published October 27, 2021

What scientists learned when they tried to raise a chimp with a human baby

By PopSci Staff

/ Published September 21, 2021

Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.

By PopSci Staff

/ Published July 18, 2021

Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays

By PopSci Staff

/ Published July 14, 2021

How Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon without shoes

By PopSci Staff

/ Published June 23, 2021

Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps

By PopSci Staff

/ Published June 9, 2021