Savannah Guthrie returned to her job at the Today show on April 6 for the first time since her mother Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping. “It’s good to be home,” Savannah said during airing. The show did not directly acknowledge Nancy’s case on air, but Savannah was wearing a sunflower-yellow dress — the color of hope for…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. What’s fragrant, floral, and perfectly devious? If you’re confused, imagine what it must be like for the bees ensnared in the colorful clutches of a pink lady’s slipper (Cypripedium acaule). This large species of wildflower has ingenious pollinating tactics…
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Photo: Universal Pictures Wahoo! Just like the original movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie is breaking records at the box office during its opening weekend. What’s even more impressive is that some of its records don’t even include the full five-day weekend, as the movie opened on April 1. It’s now the biggest three-day opening…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 79 CE, one of the most infamous tragedies of antiquity rocked the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii beneath ash and pumice, preserving the ancient Roman city’s final moments in astounding detail. The plaster…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Colorful dyed eggs typically grab the spotlight on Easter, but the world of bird eggs is so much bigger than chickens. There are as many colors and sizes as there are bird species. According to conservation writer Paul Baicich,…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. You’re busy. Somewhere along the way, the chair disappeared from meals. Breakfast over the sink, lunch at the counter. Sometimes, you can still hear your parents chiding you about how it’s “better” to sit down while eating. But is…
The Writers Guild of America reached a tentative deal with studios and streamers on Saturday morning. Variety reports the deal will be four years long instead of the standard three-year deal. There are no immediate details on what the plan entails, but one of the key changes the WGA was fighting for was an improvement in…
Photo: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images Two months after her mother went missing, Savannah Guthrie is returning to Today on April 6. “I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family,” Guthrie explained in an interview with Hoda Kotb on March 27,…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Around this time of the year, your social media doom scrolling might be peppered with images of adorable children holding disgruntled yellow chicks. While the sight of puggy little hands wrapped a little too tightly around the Easter and…
