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a black pig is smiling

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Pig sex and celery have a surprising connection

By Popular Science Team

A Rubik's Cube displayed on a stand

The inventor of the Rubik’s cube doesn’t get why it’s so popular

By Hope Reese/Undark

Nuria Tamarit illustration

Five dolls that changed the world

By Erin Blakemore

a generic doctors office

America has a long history of forced sterilization

By Kate Baggaley

a woman sits in a metal box while a man speaks to her

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This scientist thought he’d found the source of all sexual energy

By Popular Science Team

Black model in grayscale

Why do beauty filters make you look whiter?

By Candice Wang

Civil War medical dispatch

Times of strife can lead to medical innovation—when governments are willing

By Jeffrey Clemens/The Conversation

Causes of Mortality in the Army

Infographics have helped keep us alive for centuries

By Murray Dick/MIT Press Reader

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Your car is probably full of spiders

By Popular Science Team

Japanese anime remembers the atom bomb, decades after Hiroshima

By Frank Fuller/The Conversation

An Audubon's shearwater over water

Bird names are due for an anti-racist reckoning

By Hannah Thomasy/Undark

The Mexico City landscape

Mexico City buried its river and lakes to prevent disease. But then COVID-19 happened.

By Elena Delavega/The Conversation

A mural in Minneapolis, Minnesota, commemorates George Floyd, who was killed while being restrained by city police officers in May.

Resharing videos of violence against Black people can spark more trauma

By Candice Wang

massive caldera

A massive volcanic eruption may have contributed to the rise of the Roman Empire

By Kate Baggaley

The Cahokia Mounds in Collinsville, Illinois, mark the site of one of the biggest pre-Colombian civilizations in the US.

Colonial bias gave us an incorrect history of North America’s Indigenous people

By Sturt Manning/The Conversation

Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

General Charles Q. Brown Jr. is a historic choice to lead the Air Force

By Dan Pimentel/Flying Mag

Person holding a bread-and-butter pickle sandwich

The history and mystery of America’s long-lost pickle sandwich

By Eric Kim/Saveur

Black kids with binoculars

Black birders have never been safe or celebrated

By Jacqueline L. Scott/The Conversation

The 160-year-old reason you’re obsessed with your lawn

Jerrie Cobb and Mercury

International Space Station

A brief history of menstruating in space

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why barrier contraceptives (like diaphragms) are so unpopular

By Donna J. Drucker/MIT Press Reader

a baseball player swings a bat

Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats

By Popular Science Team

The Sebring-Vanguard

Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles have come a long way since the 1890s

By Sara Kiley Watson

Pamela Smith in her lab

This scientist studies alchemy to turn historical handicrafts into modern innovations

By Kate Baggaley

a war propaganda poster

Carrots were once a crucial tool in anti-Nazi propaganda

By Popular Science Team

alaska permafrost lab

Inside a frozen tunnel hiding the galaxy’s biggest secrets

By Madeline Ostrander/Undark

A still life of books, a quill, old spectacles, and candles

This 17th-century plague diary hits a little too close to home

By Ute Lotz-Heumann/The Conversation

An abelisaur, a short-snouted predatory dinosaur, rests while several pterosaurs fight over leftovers from a carcass.

The Sahara Desert was once flooded with history’s most vicious dinosaurs

By Kate Baggaley

a group of New Yorkers participating in the 1970 Earth Day demonstrations in New York City

Looking back on 50 years of Earth Days

By John Kennedy

Oscar Bolten Green illustration

Tomatoes, tempura, and other foods whose origins will surprise you

By Eleanor Cummins

Lena Vargas illustration

Three ancient optical illusions explained by modern science

construction dig site

Archaeologists and construction workers are teaming up to unearth historic relics

By Megan Gannon

Twelve classic products that were perfect from the start

By Stan Horaczek and Rob Verger

a screenshot of a video game

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Animal Crossing’s most elusive fish has a bizarre real-life backstory

By Popular Science Team

woman drinking coffee and smiling

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Does coffee make you poop, or is that just me?

By Popular Science Team

a cattle skull mounted on wood

Five surprising ways people have used (and are still using) bones

By John Kennedy

king louis xiv of france

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Thank syphilis for these three major fashion trends

By Popular Science Team

Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1980

Katherine Johnson, whose calculations enabled the first moonwalk, dies at 101

A view over a plaza in Wuhan, China

The prejudice stemming from the coronavirus outbreak isn’t new

By Marisa Peryer/Undark

An elephant causing chaos inside a restaurant

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How much acid should you give an elephant? These scientists learned the hard way.

By Popular Science Team

a woman is about to bite into a giant leek, for some reason

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The ‘chew chew cult’ is a Victorian diet fad that should really, really never come back

By Popular Science Team

a hand holding a thermometer

Our average body temperatures seem to be dropping

Inside the extraordinary experiment to save the Stradivarius sound

By Chuck Squatriglia

Phonautograph and Wax Cylinder recorders

Humans have been recording sound since before they could play it back

By Eleanor Cummins

A Spanish-American family photographed in New Mexico in 1940.

DNA tests can’t tell you your race

By Jack Herrera

Should parents lie to kids about Santa Claus? We asked the experts.

Should parents lie to kids about Santa Claus? We asked the experts.

By Eleanor Cummins

1921 tulsa riots

New evidence points to mass graves of people killed in Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre

By Kate Baggaley

a woman holds a magnifying glass up to her body

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

There’s a secret room in the basement of the female body

By Popular Science Team

Spirit of St. Louis at Swan Island Airport

This website lets you travel back in time to abandoned airfields near your home

pottery showing athletes jumping

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Ancient athletes did something truly shocking with their genitals

By Popular Science Team

Egyptian coffin mummy.

Egypt is reclaiming its mummies and its past

By Sara Kiley Watson

A salsa band on the street.

A recent study reinforces the idea that music is universal

By Sara Kiley Watson

a man hypnotizing a woman

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Ben Franklin invented a mesmerizing instrument with a deadly reputation

By Popular Science Team

a skull and some coffee beans

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Did a Swedish king really try to ban coffee with a deadly scientific experiment?

By Popular Science Team

Forceps changed the way people give birth

Forceps changed the way people give birth

By Neel Shah/The Conversation

Frogs in tiny taffeta shorts paved the way for human in-vitro fertilization

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Frogs in tiny taffeta shorts paved the way for human in-vitro fertilization

By Popular Science Team

The weirdest things we learned this week: the origin of moron, forgotten scurvy cures, and bisexual space stations

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: the origin of moron, forgotten scurvy cures, and bisexual space stations

By Popular Science Team

What unearthing ancient cities teaches us about exploring outer space

What unearthing ancient cities teaches us about exploring outer space

By Annalee Newitz

Why we’re still obsessed with the watches astronauts wore to the moon

Why we’re still obsessed with the watches astronauts wore to the moon

How menopause evolved—and what it means for us

How menopause evolved—and what it means for us

By Susan P. Mattern

The weirdest things we learned this week: 10k steps a day is totally made up and Charmin knows exactly how you poop

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: 10k steps a day is totally made up and Charmin knows exactly how you poop

By Popular Science Team

Stress and sleeplessness has been a problem since the Victorian era

Stress and sleeplessness has been a problem since the Victorian era

By Sally Shuttleworth/The Conversation

The flight deck of a British Airways 747-400

Explore the gauges, levers, and history of a 747′s iconic cockpit

Century-old ship logs show how much ice the Arctic has lost

Century-old ship logs show how much ice the Arctic has lost

By Marlene Cimons/Nexus Media News