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Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Literal time ladies used to sell people a look at their watches

By Popular Science Team

Woman in pyjamas embracing pillow and hot water bottle to soothe period pain against colourful background
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Scientists don’t actually know why period cramps hurt 

By Popular Science Team

Blue Colored Motion Blurred Earth Globe Spinning on Light Blue Background.
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The Earth once vibrated for 9 days straight

By Popular Science Team

a squirrel in deep space
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Squirrels could be the key to getting us into deep space

By Popular Science Team

Man with a boombox on his box enjoying the music
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Here’s the secret to getting songs unstuck from your head

By Popular Science Team

This aerial view shows the Shedd Aquarium on Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, on August 1, 2024.
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Chicago’s pollution could be keeping river monsters at bay

By Popular Science Team

hockey closeup
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Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey players all sound Canadian

By Popular Science Team

Silkworm.
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This worm got into some hot water and changed the course of history

By Popular Science Team

Mattoon Daily Journal-Gazette headlines as they appeared on the front-page.
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The ‘Mad Gasser of Mattoon’ is one of history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries

By Popular Science Staff

marbled crayfish
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These self-cloning crayfish ladies could take over the world

By Popular Science Team

Lasius emarginatus
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This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

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Legend of the linguistic experiment by Psamtik I.
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The ‘forbidden experiment’ is an infamously evil chapter in scientific history

By Popular Science Team

Giraffes are a lot gayer than most people give them credit for
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Giraffes are a lot gayer than most people give them credit for

By Popular Science Team

Bornean Orangutan
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These orangutans indulge in a spa-like skincare routine

By Popular Science Team

closeup of bumblebee
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How scientists accidentally found out that some bees can hibernate underwater

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wild green honeykeeper bilateral gynandromorphism
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These birds break the sex binary like it’s nothing

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These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think
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These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think

By Popular Science Team

ADHD may have evolved to give us foraging superpowers
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ADHD may have evolved to give us foraging superpowers

By Popular Science Team

A man uses a tinted glass to watch as the moon passes infront of the Earth's star marking a total eclipse, the only one this year, in Vigo, northwestern Spain on March 20, 2015.
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This is the most cosmically perfect time in history

By Popular Science Team

dung beetles with a ball of poop
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When steering balls of poop, dung beetles use the stars to navigate

By Popular Science Team