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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

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

By PopSci Editors

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

Meet the hero who saved everything you love about modern cities

By Eleanor Cummins

Humans started transforming Earth a lot earlier than we thought

Humans started transforming Earth a lot earlier than we thought

Menstrual cups were invented in 1867. What took them so long to gain popularity?

Menstrual cups were invented in 1867. What took them so long to gain popularity?

By Marion Renault

How predicting the future shifted from fiction to fact—and what we lost along the way

Science Fiction

How predicting the future shifted from fiction to fact—and what we lost along the way

By Max Saunders/The Conversation

How humans created color for thousands of years

How humans created color for thousands of years

By Eleanor Cummins

We’re barreling towards another Dust Bowl

We’re barreling towards another Dust Bowl

By Erin Blakemore

Rising high in 19th-century Chicago required nerves of steel

By Eleanor Cummins

The weirdest things we learned this week: Feminist butter sculptures and America’s first favorite pastime

The weirdest things we learned this week: Feminist butter sculptures and America’s first favorite pastime

By Popular Science Team

The weirdest things we learned this week: College students swallowed guppies for sport and chickens wore glasses

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: College students swallowed guppies for sport and chickens wore glasses

By Popular Science Team

Money, shoes, poop, and other highlights from the 796 items we’ve left on the moon

By Sara Chodosh

Buzz Aldrin sloshed around in pee on the moon (and 11 other Apollo facts)

Buzz Aldrin sloshed around in pee on the moon (and 11 other Apollo facts)

By Rachel Feltman

The Apollo moon rocks continue to reveal secrets of the cosmos

The Apollo moon rocks continue to reveal secrets of the cosmos

By Marion Renault

The Apollo 11 mission as told through the astronauts’ heart rates

The Apollo 11 mission as told through the astronauts’ heart rates

The history of science is for sale

The history of science is for sale

By Eleanor Cummins

The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections

By Popular Science Team

Britain makes Alan Turing, the father of AI, the face of its 50-pound note

Britain makes Alan Turing, the father of AI, the face of its 50-pound note

By Eleanor Cummins

Arctic lead pollution can tell us a lot about medieval economies

Arctic lead pollution can tell us a lot about medieval economies

The weirdest things we learned this week: Nazis ate camel poop and pregnancy tests spread a fungal plague

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: Nazis ate camel poop and pregnancy tests spread a fungal plague

By Popular Science Team

The real-world Mount Doom just erupted (again)

The real-world Mount Doom just erupted (again)

By Eleanor Cummins

Vandals, angry artists, and mustachioed tinkerers: The story of New York City’s weather forecasting castle

Vandals, angry artists, and mustachioed tinkerers: The story of New York City’s weather forecasting castle

By Eleanor Cummins

Feral pigs are ruining ecosystems across 35 states and hunting is making it worse

Feral pigs are ruining ecosystems across 35 states and hunting is making it worse

Driverless car proponents love this stat. Too bad it’s a wreck.

Driverless car proponents love this stat. Too bad it’s a wreck.

The secret to moving this ancient sphinx? Hoverboards

The secret to moving this ancient sphinx? Hoverboards

By Eleanor Cummins