Shakespeare likely spent the majority of his later life in Stratford-upon-Avon. Credit: Deposit Photos Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By the end of his career, William Shakespeare was a bona fide celebrity boasting multiple homes across England. Historical documentsContinue Reading
The gold ingots weren’t technically official U.S. currency. Credit: Witter Coin Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A new gold rush is coming to California. For the third year, San Francisco’s Witter Coin will host a treasure hunt across theContinue Reading
The island is surrounded by a coral atoll and is only 0.6 miles wide. Credit: AFP Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: whereContinue Reading
A custom AI program analyzed around 100 known Roman board games to help theorize the rules to the newly analyzed example. Credit: Crist et al. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Like many other cultures, the ancient Romans loved theirContinue Reading
A life reconstruction of Archaeopteryx, including the oral papillae on the roof of its mouth, a bill-tip organ at the end of its beak, and a flexible-yet-sturdy tongue made possible by an extra tongue bone. Credit: Ville Sinkkonen Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sentContinue Reading
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars in the process of becoming their best selves in the constellation Scorpius. Posted to the agency’s site on January 16 as part ofContinue Reading
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner jet, indicating the reawakening of what had been a ‘sleeping’ supermassive black hole at the heart of the gigantic radio galaxy. Credit: LOFAR / Pan-STARRS / Kumari et al. Get the PopularContinue Reading
Depiction of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death, riding a mythical creature, presumably a winged lion. The depiction was created in Erfurt in the mid-14th century. Credit: Klassik-Stiftung Weimar Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Black Death (YersiniaContinue Reading
The shipwreck is located off the coast of Copenhagen and is one of the most well-preserved ever found. Credit: Andreas Binder Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat ofContinue Reading
Microwave Vacuum Drying uses a lower heat than traditional cooking methods to preserve the food’s nutrients. Credit: Cornell University Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s hard to stop after eating a single potato chip—and that’s kind of their whole problem. TheContinue Reading
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