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Yellowstone's supervolcano is creating a 19-mile bulge
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (412+ words) Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer focused primarily on tech, AI, physics, and culture news. He was previously a regular contributor to The A. V. Club and Input, and has been featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, Mc Sweeney's…...
Giant Jell-O measures crowd volume in wobbles
1+ week, 4+ day ago (500+ words) Published Apr 7, 2026 6: 01 AM EDT Anyone who has been to a sporting event has likely seen messages on the jumbotron urging fans to "Get Loud" and cheer. Those systems typically use decibel readers to measure sound. The JELL-OMETER takes a different…...
Alpine glacier holds history dating back to the Romans. And it's melting'fast.
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (461+ words) Published Mar 13, 2026 1: 00 AM EDT From 2019 to 2024, an international team of scientists embarked on a series of research expeditions at the dome-shaped ice cap, drilling down to the bedrock to extract meters-long ice cores. These long cylinders of glacial ice packed…...
2, 500-year-old settlement found during fire station construction
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (178+ words) Published Mar 3, 2026 12: 46 PM EST "In addition to two smaller buildings, we also discovered the remains of a large residential building," excavation director Hisham Nabo said in a LWL statement translated from German. The house was positioned carefully and intentionally. By…...
World's largest acidic geyser erupts for first time since 2020
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (381+ words) Published Mar 3, 2026 10: 55 AM EST The world's largest acidic geyser is erupting for the first time in six years. Yellowstone National Park's Echinus Geyser is part of the very active Norris Geyser Basin in Wyoming. In early February, the geyser began…...
Fire may have altered human DNA
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (358+ words) Published Feb 5, 2026 11: 30 AM EST Humanity's relationship with fire is unique across all of evolutionary history. Learning to harness the power of flame is arguably our most monumental technological breakthrough as a species'one that allowed Homo sapiens to flourish across the…...
Living rocks" suck up a lot of carbon
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (255+ words) Published Dec 16, 2025 11: 07 AM EST According to the study's authors, the rate at which they use carbon shows the impressive efficiency of" these microbial mats, taking the dissolved carbon out of their environment and moving it off into a stable mineral…...
Without dinosaurs, there'd be no Thanksgiving dinner
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (165+ words) " The 52 best Walmart Black Friday deals to shop right now (updating) " Published Nov 25, 2025 10: 19 AM EST It's hard to pick a favorite dish on your Thanksgiving plate. But regardless of your selection, there's a decent chance its history can be traced…...
On Mars, meteorites can cause miles-long dust slides
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (174+ words) Published Nov 7, 2025 2: 49 PM EST Mars receives its fair share of cosmic collisions. With less than one percent the atmosphere as Earth, some meteoroids fail to burn up entirely before reaching the Red Planet's surface. When they do, they can usher…...
This "funny-looking rock" holds 3, 000 years of Iron Age secrets
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (351+ words) Published Sep 26, 2025 2: 00 PM EDT The 3, 000-year-old workshop called Kvemo Bolnisi is located in southern Georgia. The dig site was originally analyzed in the 1950s, when archeologists found an iron oxide mineral called hematite and a waste product of metal production called…...