The Avars, mystical horse-riding warriors who assisted quicken the end of the Roman Empire, controlled the plains in between Vienna and Belgrade, Serbia, for more than 2 centuries. Then,... Read more »
A staff member records where his team is gathering samples of cavern sediments. Devlin A. Gandy When researchers require ancient DNA, they generally need to drill into teeth or bones—a... Read more »
About 140 million years earlier, Greater Adria—which later on got pushed beneath southern Europe—was a Greenland-size landmass (immersed parts in gray-green) south of the continent. van Hinsbergen et al., Gondwana... Read more »
Popular Science’s brand-new series, The Home builders, takes you behind the building and construction tape to expose the people accountable for history’s biggest architectural works. Glimpse at an Incan... Read more »
In the following excerpt from “Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements,” author Paul Strathern explains the state of chemistry in the years leading up to Dmitri Mendeleyev’s development... Read more »
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we pledge you’ll have an even weirder response if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest... Read more »
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we assure you’ll have an even weirder response if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest... Read more »
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we assure you’ll have an even weirder response if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest... Read more »
Before there was absolutely nothing. Then, there was zero. So common is the little oval, envisioning life without it appears difficult. It’s the symbolic swim donut keeping mathematics, science,... Read more »