Beyond ‘Surviving Death’: The real science of near-death experiences
Is there life after death? A new Netflix series claims to prove there is. But...
Disagreeing takes up a lot of brain real estate
Yale researchers have devised a way to peer into the brains of two people simultaneously...
Why aren’t peanuts, pecans and almonds real nuts?
Fitting food into categories is a tricky business. Tomatoes and avocados grow like fruit but...
Stuck at home? Trick your brain into treating a staycation like the real thing.
Get outside your head without leaving your house. (Unsplash/)Taking a vacation has many benefits for...
Flying fish: Real fish, but not really flying
In warm ocean waters around the world, you may see a strange sight: A fish...
The real math behind “net zero” carbon emissions
This illustration provided by Carbon Engineering in October 2018 shows one of the designs of...
Here’s the real story behind Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’
A story about bird brains. (Tom McNamara/)Popular Science’s WILD LIVES is a monthly video series...
COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that...
Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been
This map shows some of the places people have thought Atlantis might be hiding. (Craig...
Player behavior in the online game EVE Online may reflect real world country
In-game country profiles are generated by combining several measures of in-game socioeconomic behavior of players....