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Evolution

Do any bugs live in the ocean? Short answer: Not really.

Crustaceans and insects share a common ancestor, but bugs are happier on land.

By Andrew Coletti

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Having to pee makes you scientifically better at video games

Plus what space smells like and other weird things we learned this week.

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At Popular Science, we report and write dozens of stories every week. And while a lot of the fun facts we stumble across make it into our articles, there are lots of other weird facts that we just keep around the office. So we figured, why not share those with you? Welcome to The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week.

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A wolf chases magpies and ravens from an elk carcass near Soda Butte.
Birds

Yellowstone’s ravens may memorize wolf hunting hotspots—to feast

The birds will fly over 90 miles to dine where wolves have drawn blood.

By Nidhi Sharma

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Robots

Brothers build a robot to solve Rubik’s cubes in record-setting time

The robot completed the puzzle in just 45.3 seconds, breaking its own record of 55 seconds made just moments earlier. 

By Mack DeGeurin

An artist’s illustration of a giant tyrannosaur watching the duckbill dinosaur ‘Parasaurolophus’ in New Mexico during the late Cretaceous (74-75 million years ago).
Dinosaurs

‘Unusually large’ tyrannosaur leg bone points to 10,000-pound behemoth

It’s nipping at Sue’s heels.

By Laura Baisas

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Psychology

4 surprising scientific benefits of music

From reducing dementia to speeding up recovery after surgery, music is more powerful than you knew.

By Justin Pot

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets of charged particles emanate from the magnetar along its rotation axis.
Black Holes

For the first time, astronomers witnessed the birth of a ‘magnetar’

These fast spinning, magnetic neutron stars may power some of the brightest supernovae in the cosmos.

By Andrew Paul

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Medicine

Explore the human body in stunning, 3D detail with a new online tool

The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs.

By Laura Baisas

Bathymetric view of USS Monitor, looking at the stern of the wreck with the boilers and inner framework of the armor belt captured by Northrop Grumman using μSAS™.
Navy

Civil War shipwreck remains in ‘fantastic’ shape on ocean floor

The USS Monitor was an ironclad ship nicknamed a ‘Yankee cheesebox.’

By Andrew Paul

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Bears

Yellowstone’s first grizzly bear of 2026 emerges from his den

After months without food, he’s hungry.

By Laura Baisas

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Mental Health

Why do we even have baby teeth?

Those temporary chompers actually play an important role.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

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