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Dario Amodei on SNL Weekend Update discussing doom
Jane Wickline impersonated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.… Tags: Dario Amodei, doom, humor, Jane Wickline, Saturday Night Live
Watch: Bangkok locals create floating market during floods
As sellers waded through floodwaters to sell produce like fish and vegetables from floating platforms and foam boxes, buyers walked or paddled between the makeshift stalls to buy their groceries.
Fat Bear Week semi-final results: Backpack and Bear #910 advance to final
Goodbye, Bucky Dent and Bear #132. You were very worthy bears. The post Fat Bear Week semi-final results: Backpack and Bear #910 advance to final appeared first on Popular Science.
The Headphone (1) Pro is a whole lotta Nothing, and it’s really something
London-based consumer-tech company Nothing has gone all-in on a flagship Bluetooth headphone for all into music—commuters to creators. The post The Headphone (1) Pro is a whole lotta Nothing, and it’s really something ap…
Despite Setbacks, NASA Gives Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft a Boost
A previous mission left two astronauts stuck in space for months. Still, the space agency is investing $359 million to keep the craft flying.
Warning more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
SpaceX’s Starship Makes It to Orbit for the First Time, but Returns to Earth Early
The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success.
The Ocean Within Us
Here's a little fact you might have heard before: Humans are around 70% water. About the same percentage as a sweet potato, incidentally. But what does that actually mean? Sure, there's blood, that accounts for some of i…
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee share a peaceful morning, Jackie’s memorial service approaches
Mating season is drawing closer, and the pair has begun to settle into a new routine. The post Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee share a peaceful morning, Jackie’s memorial service approaches appeared first on Popular Scienc…
Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
How to help wildlife after a nor’easter
Always check fallen trees for animals before chopping them up. The post How to help wildlife after a nor’easter appeared first on Popular Science.
Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teeth
Fossilised teeth across Europe had been wrongly identified until the latest find in south Wales.
Robot dog runs a marathon faster than the average human, all on a single charge
RAIBO2's official marathon time was 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds. The post Robot dog runs a marathon faster than the average human, all on a single charge appeared first on Popular Science.
This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won’t Let Go of It
Scientists have found a human gene lurking in a virus that causes skin infections. It may be using our own DNA to infect us.
5 ‘trailblazing’ caribou return to Canada’s wilderness
The animals were raised in North America's first conservation breeding program for Caribou. The post 5 ‘trailblazing’ caribou return to Canada’s wilderness appeared first on Popular Science.
Watch: From launch to fiery splashdown, SpaceX's Starship completes orbit test
A thunderous lift off, rapid satellite deployments and a fiery ending. That's how SpaceX's 14th launch of its Starship rocket panned out today.
Fire amoebas, fossilized vomit and AI energy demands
In this episode of Science Quickly, we cover discoveries both big and small, from the supersized particle collider needed to find the next subatomic specimen to tropical sea turtles that found new nesting grounds to a re…
Elevation map of the world
Bert Spaan, with help from Jules Schoonman, made an elevation map for the… Tags: Bert Spaan, elevation, world
Pie chart of what the Mars rover can see
New to me, Tom Gauld, for New Scientist, made a fine pie chart… Tags: comic, humor, Mars, New Scientist, Tom Gauld
Game to understand the president’s crypto endeavors
Thin Air, Real Money is a game to help you understand the cryptocurrency… Tags: cryptocurrency, game
Unexplainable: Dark matter and the end of answers
In this episode of Science Quickly, we share part two of our crossover with Vox’s Unexplainable in which we explore one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: dark matter. Host Noam Hassenfeld talks with Scientific America…
Illustration of 30 WNBA seasons
Celebrating 30 seasons of the WNBA, ESPN has a fun piece on the… Tags: basketball, ESPN, WNBA
✚ Visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources — September 2026 roundup
Here's what happened in September. Tags: roundup
Should you be ‘poop maxxing’?
As colon cancer rates rise in younger adults, more and more people are paying attention to their poop and talking about it on social media, where such “poop maxxing” has become a hashtag. But what’s considered normal, an…
Eat Bison to Save Bison
For tens of thousands of years, North America was bison country. Millions of these giant, shaggy animals—also known as buffalo—roamed from the far north to the Gulf and from the east coast to the west. They defined the l…
The art of being a Zombie Ant Fungus
An ant becomes infected by a fungus which takes over its nervous system, turning the ant into a vehicle for the fungus’s reproduction and killing the ant in the process. It sounds like science fiction, but it is happenin…
Space weapons are here, and AI experts are sounding alarms
In this episode of Science Quickly, we discuss newly revealed U.S. space weapons, growing artificial intelligence safety concerns and the Environmental Protection Agency’s rollback of power plant emissions limits before …
Can you hear a forest disappear?
In this episode of Science Quickly, filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes us to a Bornean rainforest area, where centuries-old patterns of human and wildlife behavior are being disrupted by the construction of a…
Women Not Included: Consumer Products
Design is never neutral and small choices can have a big impact. Dr Ella Hubber and journalist Katie Silver explore how consumer products marketed to women are frequently developed without fully understanding their need…
Plant Milk Proliferation: Oat, Soy, Almond, and More, But Which Is Best?
Cow milk is out, and plant milk reigns supreme. At least, that's how it feels in the supermarket these days, where the refrigerated section is full of "milk" made from oats, almonds, peanuts, coconuts, soy, macadamia nut…
Women not included: Medical devices
CPR mannequins, medical implants and surgical tools. These are life changing and lifesaving medical devices. But when they are built around male bodies, what does that mean for everyone else? Through expert insight, Dr E…
Women not included: Artificial Intelligence
Dr Ella Hubber and journalist Katie Silver unpack how artificial intelligence is far from neutral, and why that matters. They speak to experts who reveal how some AI is trained with bad data and how this means it can oft…
Women Not Included: Urban Planning
On every street corner, at every bus stop, in every public toilet the message is clear: this city is not built for women. Along with journalist Chhavi Sachdev, Dr Ella Hubber explores how urban design often fails to re…
So Hot Right Now: Why We Love the Chile Pepper
Perhaps no other plant is as entwined with pain and pleasure as the chile pepper. But why does it burn—and why on earth do we crave that uncomfortable sensation? How did capsaicin's fungus-fighting, digestion-enhancing, …
Salad Days: A Story of Science, Sexism, and Jell-O
If leafy greens and a little vinaigrette is salad, and chicken with mayo is salad, and vegetables in Jello-O are ALSO salad… What exactly is salad?! That's the big question we're tackling this episode—and it takes us dow…
Where There's Smoke, There's...Whiskey, Fish, and Barbecue!
As anyone who’s spent time by a crackling campfire or a barbecue pit can attest, the scent of smoke is unmistakable—and surprisingly mysterious. Smoke clings to clothing but vanishes in the breeze. You see it, but you ca…
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Antonio arrived in Seattle during the Capito…
America's Forbidden Fruit and Forgotten First Soda: Ask Gastropod
Fan favorite Ask Gastropod is back, and we’re celebrating the season by solving a pair of trans-Atlantic mysteries! First up: if you have a purple candy in Europe, it’s nearly guaranteed to be flavored with a tart little…
"The Network" from NPR's Embedded
New from NPR's Embedded: Hosts Victoria Estrada and Marta Martinez travel across Latin America and within the U.S. to understand how women in Brazil discovered one of the medications that's used for self-managed abortion…
Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded
New from NPR's Embedded: Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, th…
Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their…
Tested (Ep 1): The Choice
New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field au…
The Goodbye Show
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship pre…