Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By the end of his career, William Shakespeare was a bona fide celebrity boasting multiple homes across England. Historical documents indicate the legendary playwright spent the majority of his later years in the town of his youth, Stratford-upon-Avon, but…
The family of influencer Ashlee Jenae is asking the public for help after she died earlier this month under mysterious circumstances on a trip abroad. Jenae had been staying at a luxury villa in Zanzibar, Tanzania, with her fiancé, crypto trader Joe McCann, whom she had been dating for more than a year. But two…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A new gold rush is coming to California. For the third year, San Francisco’s Witter Coin will host a treasure hunt across the city collectively worth over $50,000. The grand prize? An incredibly rare, $50 gold piece from 1851…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Few cultures exist in a vacuum, even those separated from others by hundreds of miles of open sea like the island nation of Japan. Nearly 70 years ago, archaeologists discovered an ancient suit of armor beneath one of the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In March, NASA released a broad overview of the Artemis II mission menu accompanying astronauts on their historic, 10-day lunar flyby mission. The rundown was relatively comprehensive, but it lacked a crucial bit of information: Which specific five hot…
Wake up Millennial women, it’s our time. The original American Girl dolls are all coming back to stores in a new launch, the brand tells Glamour exclusively. Yes, I mean every single historical character we grew up with in the 90s and 2000s, even our redheaded horse girl queen Felicity Merriman who hasn’t been available…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The people have spoken. The Weather Channel has officially announced a new look rolling out across both its website and on its app—one with a distinctly nostalgic, Y2K-esque vibe to it. “This is not an April Fool’s joke. You’ve…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Humans have gambled and gamed for millennia. However, new evidence suggests the odds are good that our relationship with…well, odds probably dates back much further than many experts believed. Based on evidence recently detailed in the journal American Antiquity,…
This article contains references to rape and sexual assault. When Gisèle Pelicot first chose to come forward about the crimes of her ex-husband, Dominique, the world was horrified. People all over the globe were in disbelief that a man could perpetuate a campaign of drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge, and even more…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Many seemingly complex magic tricks rely on a simple mix of old-fashioned slight-of-hand and misdirection. Some magicians talk to the audience as a form of misdirection, which sounds like a logical strategy, at first glance. Even the most skeptical…
