Photo: Brianna Bryson/WireImage Charlize Theron opens up about the abuse she and her mother faced from her father while growing up in South Africa, which resulted in her mother murdering her father in self-defense. “It’s so strange — all the memories are there. And it’s not that I don’t try and think about it, but…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. There are all kinds of ways to use your phone to help you learn a language of course, but here’s one you might not have come across before: You can enable real-time translations for a host of different languages…
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The PVC pipe potato gun is a staple of many science-oriented (and frequently unsupervised) childhoods. There are plenty of variations to that starchy shooter, but the basic elements are invariably the same: load a potato inside the pipe barrel,…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. What’s big, rare, and smells like literal death? If you guessed a corpse, you’re not wrong. The pungent flower in question is a tropical plant called titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a species of corpse flower. Appropriately, people say it…
A lot of people watched the season three premiere of Euphoria on Sunday, but how many people almost threw up when they saw the drug mule scene? The world may never know, but we do know that Euphoria had millions of viewers after a four-year break between seasons. HBO confirmed that 8.5 million U.S. viewers…
Photo: Grant Baldwin/Getty Images Dr. Jill Biden, you’ve been outbid. The former First Lady reportedly placed a $35,000 bid for a walk-on role on the next season of Heated Rivalry but did not win the grand prize. “Live from the NYC LGBT Center Gala: Dr Jill Biden was a surprise guest tonight – and just…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The state of Connecticut is probably not the first place that comes to mind when you think of bears. However, the Nutmeg State is home to about 1,000 to 1,200 black bears (Ursus americanus) bears. The bears can be…
Charli XCX. Photo: Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images Charli XCX is so over it. The pop star is a very British cool girl, which means she’s blasé to her bones. In her new British Vogue cover story, Charli expresses a general ennui toward pop stardom. For someone who has never been more famous —…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Not every mummy is treated equally. While the traditional image conjures a well-preserved, carefully wrapped ancient Egyptian body inside an elaborately decorated tomb, there are many more examples of partial and poorly prepared remains. These especially delicate specimens are…
