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Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The mood of the crowd gathered alongside a highway just outside Denver is euphoric. Around 75 people stand in the brush beneath a roadside billboard with their phones out, filming one Âanother …
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 3I/ATLAS has quickly earned celestial celebrity status since its discovery in early July. Itâs only the third known object to …
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Get the Popular Science daily newsletterđĄ Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently appointed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long promoted unfounded conspiracy theories regarding community water fluoridation. Now …
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Share Public trust in science is declining in the U.S.. As people become increasingly leery of scientists and scientific institutions, belief in mis- and disinformation is on the rise. Some science âskepticsâ are pushing back on pasteurization, eschewing vaccines, and buying into speculative, or …
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Share This article was originally featured on Undark. A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of …
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Share In 2024, online conspiracy theories can feel almost impossible to avoid. Podcasters, prominent public figures, and leading political figures have breathed oxygen into once fringe ideas of collusion and deception. People are listening. Nationwide, nearly half of adults surveyed by the polling …
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Share If youâve ever looked up at a mostly blue sky and seen straight white lines criss-crossing the horizon, or watched a plane puff out a plume as it passed above, you may have wondered, âwhat causes that?â Condensation trails, or contrails for short, are not simply exhaust, like you might see …
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Share If you consume social media, you may have heard: Seed oils are terrible for your healthâeven toxic! Cooking oils derived from seeds cause everything from heart disease to inflammation to fatigue to bad skinâaccording to a certain subset of Internet influencers. Yet contrary to the posts …
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Moriel Schottlender is a software engineer at Wikimedia Foundation. This article was originally posted on her Smarter Than That blog in 2008 and has been lightly edited for Popular Science. Humanity has known the world is not flat for a few millennia, and Iâve been meaning to show more methods on …
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On January 12, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs. The term âUAP,â which is largely synonymous with the original usage of Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO, is designed to be a broad category for reporting …
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