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During WWI, a daredevil pilot helped invent the first 'drones' (popsci.com)
3 points by Brajeshwar 2 days ago | past | discuss
What air pollution does to the human body (popsci.com)
5 points by wjb3 5 days ago | past | 1 comment
Computer run on human brain cells learned to play 'Doom' (popsci.com)
5 points by wjb3 5 days ago | past | 1 comment
We can't launch our trash into the sun. But why? (popsci.com)
2 points by wjb3 5 days ago | past | discuss
Ancient Greece's most famous oracle was just high on gas fumes (popsci.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | past | 1 comment
Long-lost silent film depicts first 'robot' in cinema (popsci.com)
4 points by Brajeshwar 8 days ago | past | discuss
Antarctica Has a 'Gravity Hole' (popsci.com)
2 points by wjb3 10 days ago | past | discuss
Emus once faced down the Australian army–and won (popsci.com)
3 points by Brajeshwar 11 days ago | past | discuss
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)
88 points by Brajeshwar 12 days ago | past | 21 comments
Earliest known writing dates back over 40k years (popsci.com)
3 points by _vaporwave_ 13 days ago | past | discuss
The Internet Archive records its 1Tth website (popsci.com)
2 points by robtherobber 14 days ago | past
Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
423 points by Brajeshwar 15 days ago | past | 240 comments
The Internet Archive records its 1Tth website (popsci.com)
5 points by Brajeshwar 15 days ago | past
5k-year-old bacteria thawed in Romanian ice cave (popsci.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 20 days ago | past
The Curious Genius of Amar Bose (popsci.com)
2 points by samdung 25 days ago | past
Hand tool rewrites ancient Egyptian history (popsci.com)
1 point by delichon 26 days ago | past
What does 'remastering' an album mean? (popsci.com)
5 points by wjb3 29 days ago | past
Fire may have altered human DNA (popsci.com)
6 points by wjb3 29 days ago | past | 3 comments
Marine biologists discover 28 new deep sea species–and an old VHS tape (popsci.com)
4 points by layer8 31 days ago | past
Honda's special welding method is transforming its car manufacturing (popsci.com)
1 point by wjb3 32 days ago | past
Why our ancestors had straight teeth without braces (popsci.com)
4 points by Brajeshwar 32 days ago | past
Pipe organ playing a single, nonstop song until 2640 (popsci.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 33 days ago | past
The Green River flows 'uphill.' Geologists think they know why (popsci.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 34 days ago | past
Amazon's 180 internet satellites are too bright. It wants 3k more (popsci.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 40 days ago | past
From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked (popsci.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 40 days ago | past
Bald eagle chick watch 2026: Jackie lays first egg (popsci.com)
3 points by WaitWaitWha 41 days ago | past
Sucking up CO2, refrigerator-sized machine makes gasoline out of thin air (popsci.com)
2 points by smurda 42 days ago | past | 4 comments
What happens when you train an LLM only on limited historical data (popsci.com)
2 points by Brajeshwar 43 days ago | past
How to generate a random number with quantum physics (popsci.com)
4 points by todsacerdoti 44 days ago | past
Penis size may matter more to men than women (popsci.com)
2 points by debo_ 45 days ago | past

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