Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Scorpions are optimized hunters, whose skills have been honed through millions of years of evolution. An armored exoskeleton, strong pincers, a poisonous stinger—almost everything about their anatomy aids in either hunting insects, small mammals, and reptiles, or defending themselves…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A first-of-its-kind chemical experiment on Mars indicates that our nearest planetary neighbor still preserves remnants of ancient organic molecules necessary for creating life. Although researchers still need to see this type of evidence firsthand, a team writing in the…
I’ve been investigating a transformation in the illegal drug market and how it has led to this explosion of drug overdoses. “America’s public enemy No. 1 is drug abuse.” The war on drugs starts in the early ’70s. At that time, annually, there were roughly 7,000 drug overdose deaths. Subsequently, that number completely explodes. How…
Just a splash of the non-Newtonian, please Jack Andersen/Getty Images The physics of plant-based milks is strange. Researchers are only now beginning to understand it, and they hope that doing so could result in better beverages. Vivek Sharma at the University of Illinois Chicago and his colleagues found that most plant milks flow and drip…
