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TORONTO , ON- APRIL 11 - Pasta Buca .Detail of Su filindeu. David Marcelli of Buca makes pasta from scratch for The Star. April 11, 2018. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The rarest pasta on earth is almost physically impossible to make

By Popular Science Team

Portrait kitten with open mouth. Domestic curious funny striped kitty
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Allergic to cats? Chickens could help. 

By Popular Science Team

Young woman lifting weights at gym
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Could women actually be better suited to weight lifting than men are? 

By Popular Science Team

birch bark with drawings on it
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A 13th-century schoolboy’s doodles show that kids have always been like that 

By Popular Science Team

a taxidermied bird
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The foul-mouthed cockatoo that lived to 120

By Popular Science Team

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)
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Scientists don’t actually know why period cramps hurt 

By Popular Science Team

Blue Colored Motion Blurred Earth Globe Spinning on Light Blue Background.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Earth once vibrated for 9 days straight

By Popular Science Team

a squirrel in deep space
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Chicago’s pollution could be keeping river monsters at bay

By Popular Science Team

hockey closeup
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

Silkworm.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The ‘Mad Gasser of Mattoon’ is one of history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries

By Popular Science Staff

marbled crayfish
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These self-cloning crayfish ladies could take over the world

By Popular Science Team

Lasius emarginatus
Archaeology

This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

By Popular Science Team

Legend of the linguistic experiment by Psamtik I.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

Bornean Orangutan
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These orangutans indulge in a spa-like skincare routine

By Popular Science Team

closeup of bumblebee
Space

How scientists accidentally found out that some bees can hibernate underwater

By Popular Science Team

wild green honeykeeper bilateral gynandromorphism
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These birds break the sex binary like it’s nothing

By Popular Science Team

These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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
Space

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.
Moons

This is the most cosmically perfect time in history

By Popular Science Team

dung beetles with a ball of poop
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

pile of cheese slices
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The US government once rented caves in Missouri to store its excess cheese

By Popular Science Team

Live from New York: ‘The Weirdest Thing’ podcast (in person!)
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Live from New York: ‘The Weirdest Thing’ podcast (in person!)

By Popular Science Team

engineers working on voyager 2
Deep Space

How is Voyager’s vintage technology still flying?

By Popular Science Team

person holding phone connected to earbuds
Tech Hacks

4 tips for listening to more podcasts, faster

By David Nield

viper illustration
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

podcast software feature image
Audio

Best podcast software

By Chad Radford

Jack Russell terrier dog facing a podcast microphone to record a science show
Ask Us Anything

Our favorite science podcast episodes of 2021

By PopSci Editors

a spotted lanternfly with green illustrated background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Spotted lanternfly goo is surprisingly tasty

By Popular Science Team

Person with long blond hair holding a book and cup of tea and smiling at a person with short brown hear and a red t-shirt in front of a family fireplace during the holidays
Science

Fascinating science stories to help you survive holiday small talk

By Elana Spivack

planets lined up over an art illustration
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

a human skull wearing sunglasses and large headphones
Science

The best science podcasts for staying sharp and sounding smart

By Rachel Feltman

art illustration with a pile of slime and the weirdest thing eyeball
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How sexy Victorian mediums tricked scientists into believing in ectoplasm

By Popular Science Team

art illustration with a bushel of apples
Ask Us Anything

Did food taste better 50 years ago?

By Claire Maldarelli

x-ray of impacted wisdom tooth
Evolution

We finally know why we grow wisdom teeth as adults

By Sara Chodosh

art illustration of the sun
Sun

What happens when the sun burns out?

By Rahul Rao

the sun as seen with x-rays
Sun

How close can you get to the sun? Closer than you’d think.

By Alessandra Calderin

art illustration of person reaching for their toes
Ask Us Anything

Why can’t we all touch our toes?

By Claire Maldarelli

a nose smelling the stars (illustration)
NASA

What does space smell like?

By Lizzie Schiffman

a baby chimp and baby human
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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

By Popular Science Team

Some dinosaurs on the PopSci Ask Us Anything podcast background.
Ask Us Anything

What would a dinosaur taste like?

By John Kennedy

art illustration of woman with open mouth and laptop
Ask Us Anything

What would happen if I ate my computer? Asking for a friend.

By Ellen Airhart

art illustration with vintage painting/sculpture
Ask Us Anything

A complete guide on how to safely take, send, and store nudes

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

art illustration with a mug of beer
Ask Us Anything

What is a hangover? And can you cure it?

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

an old-fashioned medical tool covered in a serrated blade
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.

By Popular Science Team

a skyscraper against a green background with rays of light beaming off of it onto the ground
Sun

Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays

By Popular Science Team

an old photo of a man running barefoot on a green illustrated background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon without shoes

By Popular Science Team

Blue Yeti USB microphone with a MacBook Pro
Peripherals

Blue Yeti review: No. 1 for more than one reason

By Markkus Rovito

a woman on her side clutching her stomach as if in pain against a green background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps

By Popular Science Team

an illustration of a bee hive on a tree branch against a green background with a small drawing of an eyeball logo
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

What’s stranger than bees telling time? How we learned that they can.

By Popular Science Team

an old drawing of a kitchen with a large open fire and a small dog running on a mill-like wheel to turn the spit
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This dog was genetically engineered to be a kitchen appliance

By Popular Science Team

an illustrated man with a magnifying glass held up to his eye
Ask Us Anything

Ask Us Anything: Why can’t we see more colors?

By Claire Maldarelli, Jessica Boddy

Ask Us Anything: What happens in your brain when you daydream?
Ask Us Anything

Ask Us Anything: What happens in your brain when you daydream?

By Claire Maldarelli, Jessica Boddy

an old fashioned sketch of someone drinking out of a small glass on a green background with blue polka dots and a drawing of an eyeball
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

People used to drink a very specific kind of urine to treat motion sickness

By Popular Science Team

trash falling into a volcano under the ask us anything logo
Ask Us Anything

Ask Us Anything: Why can’t we burn our trash in volcanoes?

By Claire Maldarelli, Jessica Boddy

someone holds a bunch of bananas on a green background with blue and green polka dots and a small eyeball logo in the upper left corner
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Craving a radioactive snack? Grab a banana.

By Popular Science Team

The Ask Us Anything logo with an illustrated heap of potatoes.
Ask Us Anything

Ask Us Anything: Can you survive on a single food forever?

By Claire Maldarelli, Jessica Boddy

A trio of giraffes from the necks up against a cloudy sky backdrop.
Ask Us Anything

Ask Us Anything: Why do humans stop growing?

By Claire Maldarelli, Jessica Boddy

a man and a woman lay sleeping in bed
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

You get brainwashed whenever you go to sleep (and that’s a good thing)

By Popular Science Team

Cannabis buds over top of the Ask Us Anything logo for a podcast about whether you can overdose on weed.
Science

Can you overdose on weed?

By Marion Renault