Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
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/
Why Can’t We Launch Earth’s Garbage Into the Sun?
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…
Hold onto your hats at Yellowstone
From Popular Science. Yellowstone employees recovered over 300 hats from hydrothermal areas in 2025. And at least one pizza box.
Shark Threesome
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/
The Mind Control Glasses That Ended in Lawsuits
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The Man Who Lived with No Brain
From Popular Science. Thanks to DuckDuckGo for sponsoring this video! Try Privacy Pro free for 7 days at https://duckduckgo.com/popular Further Reading/Viewing: "The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound," by A. R. Luria. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674546257 THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD: THE HISTORY OF A BRAIN WOUND by A. R. Luria; Translated…
How to Make a YouTube Video in 1987
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…
The $68 Million Instant Movie Disaster (Polavision)
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…
We Mapped a Fly’s BRAIN
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…
What if you CAN’T BURP?!
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
The Most Famous Mystery We’ll NEVER Solve
From Popular Science. [YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.] Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and…
Why is this fish so ANGRY?
From Popular Science. A newly-discovered fish in the Red Sea has menacing teeth and a sinister face, hiding in coral to strike at unsuspecting prey. But the grumpy dwarfgoby — nicknamed ‘The Grumpy Cat of the Sea — is just 2 centimeters long! Popular Science, "Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea": https://www.popsci.com/environment/grumpy-fish-red-sea/ #weirdscience #sciencefacts…
Are Tesla Cybertruck Tires TRASH?
From Popular Science. Some Cybertruck owners are complaining that their tires are wearing out quickly — like very, very quickly. One user reported that he’s nearing the end of his tread after just 6,000 miles of summer street and highway driving. The Cybertruck weighs nearly 7,000lbs / 3,000kg, so its tires are going to grind…