From Popular Science. In 17th, 18th, and 19th century Europe, there were potentially 200 reported cases of spontaneous human combustion, where bodies were burned away, leaving limbs behind and no apparent source of of the flames. These cases captured the popular imagination, showing up often in literature of the time. So, is it possible for…

From Popular Science. Whether you’re pro-Daylight Savings or pro-Standard Time, the science is clear: Switching *between* the two every year is terrible for human health. So why haven’t we stuck with one system all year? The answer is both scientific AND political. https://www.popsci.com/science/permanent-daylight-saving-time-usa Hosted by Annie Colbert Reported by Tom Hawking Edited by Avital Oehler…

From Popular Science. Ummm, no. Earth is messy. So can’t we just send our junk somewhere else? Aside from the moral quandaries raised by such poor stewardship of our already disheveled solar system, Earthlings probably haven’t made a habit of beaming literal garbage into space yet because we simply can’t afford to. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6X78UcaX7E&t=4s…

From Popular Science. Radithor promised to cure everything from wrinkles to leukemia, but its unintended results were deadly. Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteykIY7eVQ

From Popular Science. It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t deter Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall’s unique bed-scale detected that 21 grams left the human body at the moment of death. He had finally discovered it: the weigh of the human soul ……

From Popular Science. If you lived in the 1920s, you might have found a pamphlet advertising “the greatest therapeutic force known to mankind.” Radithor was a tiny bottle of clear, colorless water that claimed to cure acne, anemia, heart disease, poison ivy, impotence, asthma, and any other malady you could imagine. There was only one…

From Popular Science. In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, there’s a place that locals call ‘The Gateway to Hell.’ In the summer, its peaceful waterfall sounds are interrupted by the booms and crashes of falling earth. And while it‘s not actually a portal to another dimension, the Batagay Crater (technically a "megaslump") is…

From Popular Science. Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller. Read the full story on Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

From Popular Science. If you’ve spent any time on Earth recently, you might have noticed a lot of trash piling up, with less and less space to put it. So why can’t we just shoot it into the sun and burn it up in space? Well, there’s a lot more to it: Mainly, gravity and…

From Popular Science. Yellowstone employees recovered over 300 hats from hydrothermal areas in 2025. And at least one pizza box.

From Popular Science. The first-ever footage of leopard shark sex shows an unexpected trio. Read more on Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/environment/leopard-shark-mating-video/

From Popular Science. A conservation biologist and realtor by training, Maurice Rodrigues co-founded the Turtle Conservancy in 2005. The non-profit takes in abandoned, homeless, and illegally trafficked reptiles confiscated at airports in the New York City metro area. According to law enforcement officers working with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, inspectors seize about…

From Popular Science. Horses are prey. But what would they look like with eyes like humans? Do you really want to know? Find the full story on Popular Science.

From Popular Science. Come along as we visited a home for rescued turtles in New Jersey.

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From Popular Science. Decades before software like Premiere and iMovie made video editing cheap, easy, and accessible for everyone, the only option was chaining a conglomerate of vintage 80s technology – multiple camcorders or VCRs and a TV – to craft custom analog video. Then the Videonics system changed tech history forever. With professional-grade setups…

From Popular Science. Nearly 50 years ago, the Polavision camera blended Polaroid’s revolutionary instant film with on-demand home video – and the result was a landmark advance in analog technology that would become a mystery of science and a winding international journey into vintage tech. Because now, generations after Edwin Land bet his half-century legacy…

From Popular Science. A global team of 287 researchers have combined over 100 terabytes of data to create a full map of a fruit fly’s brain, which includes 139,255 individual neurons and 50 million connections. Popular Science, "Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time": https://www.popsci.com/environment/complete-brain-map/ #science #sciencefacts #weirdscience #biology…

From Popular Science. Some people can’t burp… at all. It’s called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction, and RCD makes life seriously uncomfortable — both physically and socially. There’s an easy, increasingly popular medical fix that unlocks the power of the belch, and it’s actually changing lives. Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/technology/thanks-to-reddit-a-new-diagnosis-is-bubbling-up-across-the-united-states/ #medical #sciencefacts #science #scienceandtechnology