This story has been updated. It was originally published on May 21, 2020. Jump ropes are more complex than you may realize. They range from…
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Click here to see all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage. We are now well into year two of the COVID-19 pandemic, which officially began on March…
From smartphones to maps, Google has a gadget or an app for almost any job. Perhaps you haven’t realized it, but you can easily have…
Click here to see all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage. The US vaccination rate is keeping up at a clip of about 3 million doses given…
This post has been updated. It was originally published on July 31, 2017. Since this clean, bare-bones browser first saw the light of day in…
Play a little. Browse a little. And do it all with a safe connection. This digital bundle gives you two items you will regret ever having lived…
This post has been updated. It was originally published on May 3, 2018. Given how confused we all seem about what the word “allergy” means,…
For millennia, humans have altered ecosystems across the globe. But it wasn’t until the last several hundred years of global colonization and industrialization that those…
Does your pup strut down the street like he or she is owning the runway? Or maybe like they’re walking on burning coals? Well, it…
Shooting stars are a neat freak’s nightmare. Although a breathtaking sight, every year heaps of their dying ashes—tiny dust grains known as micrometeorites—litter our planet.…