Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture; Images: Getty Images There’s never been a more appropriate moment to bring up the “Friendship Ended With Mudasir” meme than when discussing the friendship breakup between Brianna LaPaglia and Grace O’Malley. Over a year after their podcast ended, LaPaglia blames Call Her Daddy’s founding father for the nail in the coffin for…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1959, countries around the world sent their most talented students to Romania to compete in the first-ever International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Ever since, the rules have remained simple, even if the problems are not: over two days, each…
D4vd Photo: Edward Berthelot/Getty Images R&B singer D4vd, real name David Burke, will be charged with the murder of the 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Los Angeles County district attorney Nathan Hochman said he intends to charge him with first-degree murder with the special circumstances of lying in wait, continuous lewd acts with a person under…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Regional accents in the United States are far more complicated than their oversimplified stereotypes. Take that reductive “Southern” twang heard so often across pop culture. Researchers routinely identify significant differences throughout the region, with variants including Appalachian, Ozark, Coastal…
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are getting aired out. Dakota Mortensen, Taylor Frankie Paul’s ex-boyfriend and co-parent, has responded to news that Paul would not be charged with domestic assault. “Over the past several weeks, l’ve taken a step back and had time away from the chaos,” he said…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Mountain lions (Puma concolor, cougars, pumas, among its many other names) are carnivorous, sharp-toothed and clawed big cats. They can be dangerous to livestock, pets, and the occasional human—but their cubs sure are adorable. And absolutely vulnerable, when left…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Mangroves play a crucial role in coastal ecosystems, buffering hurricane damage, storing carbon, and providing a safe haven for diverse wildlife. The Mangrove Photography Awards celebrate the ecological superhero by raising awareness around conservation efforts through stunning imagery. Last…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the latest episode of old museum collections revealing new discoveries, two researchers in Australia have solved a paleontological mystery with an Ice Age fossil first discovered over 100 years ago. The fossil was found in the underground Foul…
Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture; Images: Getty Images Unfollowing someone on Instagram is a bat signal that something has gone wrong. Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson are supposed to be filming a road trip documentary together, but it looks like they’ve hit a fork in the road. Tomlinson (and his sisters) unfollowed his former 1D bandmate on Instagram, and…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Can you measure the weight of a human soul? No, but that didn’t stop Duncan MacDougall from trying. In the early 20th century, MacDougall put dying patients on a scale to try and prove the existence of a soul….
