Contestants have been swap-screwed before, but not like this. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Spoilers follow for the April 1 episode of Survivor 50. What was Genevieve Mushaluk supposed to do, exactly? The Survivor 50 contestant had been playing one of the best games of the season so far but, last night, went home at the merge…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Nearly all fish spend their entire lives in water—it’s sort of a big qualification to classify as a fish, after all. However, some species occasionally behave in ways that recall their land-curious evolutionary ancestors. After multiple excursions in the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Mushrooms are social butterflies. Seemingly small communities of fungi separated by hundreds of feet are frequently connected via vast underground webs known as mycelial networks. While these allow the fungi to share vital information about their surroundings and environmental…
Photo: Jocelyn Prescod/Bravo via Getty Images Another relationship scandal has come to a Bravo show. Summer House’s Amanda Batula and West Wilson confirmed their “connection” after rumors of a relationship brewed over the past month. For those who don’t watch people spending every summer getting drunk in the Hamptons, newly single Batula — who is…
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…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Perhaps you are one of the many Americans who have a small boxy tank balanced precariously on their bathroom sink. Or maybe you’ve seen one at a friend’s house—the appliances known as water flossers, oral irrigators, or often by…
For the first time, everyone, from the employees at the Love Ranch to Khloé Kardashian, is sharing their perspective on what led up to Lamar Odom’s overdose on October 13, 2015. Untold: The Death and Life of Lamar Odom hears interviews from Odom’s family, including his children, his childhood friends, and him on how his…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While it might not always feel like it, spring has finally sprung for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. At the New England Wildlife Center in Massachusetts, the arrival of the first baby squirrels is an important indicator…
Javier Bardem’s Oscar-winning performance as Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men remains an iconic villain turn 20 years later. Now, Bardem is getting a chance to sink his teeth into a similarly vicious freak and natural disaster in Apple TV’s upcoming miniseries adaptation of Cape Fear, playing the terrifying Max…
Photo: Antonietta Baldassarre Insidefoto/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images The Drama, the forthcoming A24 movie by Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, tells the story of a couple, Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Robert Pattinson), who make the mistake of confessing the worst things they’ve done in their lives to each other. It’s a fitting premise within the larger…
