Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s that time again: soon our gardens will be full of flowers and our kitchens full of ants. Only one of these developments is welcome. Ants are, in some ways, the dominant creatures on the planet. There are, by…
Photo: XNY/Star Max/GC Images Blake Lively is directly addressing the latest developments in her lawsuit against her former It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni. “I’m grateful for the Court’s ruling which allows the heart of my case to be presented to a jury next month, and for the ability to finally tell my story…
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…
Photo: Mat Hayward/Getty Images for iHeartPodcasts It feels like a lifetime ago that Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner were the new cast members on Summer House. Since leaving the show, the two have addressed the Amanda Batula and West Wilson relationship drama in support of their friend Ciara Miller. “Obviously, we’re alive. Like, we see…
Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Well, it’s a day ending in y, which means that it’s time for acclaimed actor and now first-time director Brian Cox to fire off some mean thoughts about various celebrities. In the promotional lead-up to his feature directorial debut, Glenrothan, starring himself and fellow countryman Alan Cumming, Cox did a…
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,…
Pooh Shiesty and Gucci Mane in 2020. Photo: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Rapper Gucci Mane has reportedly been robbed and kidnapped by his former collaborators Pooh Shiesty, Big30, and seven others on January 10, the Department of Justice reports. According to a press conference, Pooh Shiesty, whose legal name is Lontrell Williams Jr., allegedly asked to meet…
Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Judge Lewis J. Liman of the Federal District Court in Manhattan has dismissed Blake Lively’s sexual harassment claims against Justin Baldoni in their upcoming trial. “There are limits to the response that the accused can make in response to claims of harassment,” Judge Liman wrote, per The New York…
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Universal/Everett Collection, Scott Kowalchyk/CBS “Women need to be heard,” Meryl Streep told Stephen Colbert. She was talking about the SAVE Act, but she might as well have been talking about the concept of Mamma Mia! 3, which is not a real movie so much as it is a fake movie that keeps…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. There’s a “forbidden” oddball planet about 282 light-years away from Earth. The Jupiter-esque planet known as TOI-5205 b is the first exoplanet of its kind with an atmosphere containing far fewer heavy elements than similarly sized objects, as well…
