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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

Phone displaying Twitter Spaces podcast tab
Social Media

Twitter will start streaming podcasts, and they’re not limited to 280 characters

By Andrew Paul

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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

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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

a cow with a blue ribbon
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Inside the cutthroat world of competitive meat judging

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, By 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, By 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, By 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, By 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, By 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

a man and woman sit close to each other and share a plate of pancakes
Evolution

Your favorite brunch foods are thousands of years old

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

a bowl of tofu and a glass of soy milk on a white marble counter, with dried soybeans scattered around the surface
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Eating soy does not make men grow boobs

By Popular Science Team

Person with headphones playing audio on smartphone
Tech Hacks

How to convert text articles into audio (and why you might want to)

By David Nield

a jellyfish
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

There’s no stopping this immortal jellyfish

By Popular Science Team

an astronaut stands next to an american flag on the moon
Moons

Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did.

By Popular Science Team

a woman holding an umbrella
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

What really happened during the ‘Kentucky meat shower’?

By Popular Science Team

a drone hovers next to a lake and a tree
Drones

Delivery drones could drive us batty—unless they take some sonic cues from owls

By Popular Science Team

a hand putting a ballot into a box
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The story behind the most fraudulent election in history

By Popular Science Team

a man with headphones listening to podcasts or music
Tech Hacks

How to cave to peer pressure and start listening to podcasts

By David Nield

a fried egg on top of tomatoes on a white plate
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Egg yolk color doesn’t mean what you think it does

By Popular Science Team

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 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

an Apple laptop at night on a table
Tech Hacks

Read, watch, and listen to things faster than ever before

By David Nield

A spider
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Your car is probably full of spiders

By Popular Science Team

a baseball player swings a bat
Physics

Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats

By Popular Science Team

a war propaganda poster
Space

Carrots were once a crucial tool in anti-Nazi propaganda

By Popular Science Team

a boy with his mouth open
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

You can totally sprain your teeth (and you’ve probably done it before)

By Popular Science Team

a drawing of a large worm
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Welcome to Earth, home to human-sized salamanders and skin-eating worms

By Popular Science Team