Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Every day, the average American spends nearly 2.5 hours scrolling through social media. Cats, on the other hand, waste approximately no time on the internet. Which species generally appears less stressed and anxious? Sure, this may not be the…
Photo: Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images In the two years since the release of Taylor Swift’s overwhelmingly dense, extremely pissed off, and possibly underrated The Tortured Poets Department, the album has vanished into a cloud of smoke, explained away as “esoteric” on her fiancé’s podcast, and not often referenced as a totemic achievement in…
Audacy’s Los Angeles news radio station KNX is ending its simulcast on 97.1 FM, which will move to a sports talk format on May 11. The New York-based audio company announced Tuesday that the frequency will be re-branded as the Fan, becoming the first all-sports FM station in the Los Angeles market. Sports talk listeners…
The cover of petal. Photo: Republic Records Oscar-nominated actress Ariana Grande is not just a Focker-in-Law. The pop star has been in the studio and will release her eighth studio album later this year. Petal will be written with her longtime collaborator Ilya, with whom she worked on some of her biggest hits, including “We…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While an enormous sea lion named Chonkers makes a splash in San Francisco, you don’t have to live in the Golden City to sneak a peek. Viewers can watch the action from home with Pier 39’s livestream as this…
Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images Even hot girls need a break to heal. After one month on Broadway, Megan thee Stallion is stepping down early from her role as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. “Unfortunately, my last performance on Moulin Rouge! The Musical will be May 1. It’s been such an honor to be part of Moulin…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Establishing a long-term human presence on the moon is a daunting challenge. Daunting—but not impossible. One way to help prepare for our imminent arrival is to gain a better understanding of the frequency and effects of meteorite strikes on…
Photo: Alisha Wetherill/Alisha Wetherill We’re entering the scary Colleen Hoover cinematic universe. Yes, scarier than the strange dialogue in Reminders of Him. The first teaser for Verity just dropped, and it’s the official transition from Hoover’s heartbreaking romances to Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett making out in a haunting room, at least until Hartnett warps…
Here we go again. Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney There was no comedian present (there was, however, a mentalist) for this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but that didn’t stop Jimmy Kimmel from presenting his alternative version of what his WHCD monologue might look like on his Thursday, April 23, show. Sandwiched between jokes about how the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The average male Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) is about 10-feet-long and weighs around 1,200 pounds. But Chonkers is no average sea lion. At an estimated 2,000 pounds , the absurdly humongous, Redditor-nicknamed marine mammal has captivated onlookers and…
