All the terms you need to know to stay ahead of the storm.
Most people know at least a little about the weather, but some terms meteorologists use to describe incoming storms are complicated even for experienced enthusiasts.
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Hurricane forecasts can be confusing—here's a helpful glossary
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Outfit your bathroom to be the best space in your house
It takes more than a padded toilet seat cover and novelty shower curtain to level up your lavatory.
These items are refreshing ways to clean, illuminate, and update your lavatory. Read on.
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This wacky-looking font can help you remember what you read
Typefaces are typically easy to read. Not Sans Forgetica.
Sans Forgetica, a new memory-boosting font, is built around the principle of desirable difficulty.
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The weirdest things we learned this week: eating your own twin, embalmed milk, and levitating frogs
Our editors scrounged up some truly bizarre facts.
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s newest podcast.
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Miranda to Europa: You think you’ve got treacherous landing zones? Hold my beer
Meet the moon with 11 mile high cliff
Recent research may suggest that Europa is going to be a hard landing for any spacecraft, what with 50 foot ice spikes potentially jutting out at its equator. But…
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There is simply no precedent for Hurricane Michael
It just hit the Florida Panhandle with 155 MPH winds.
Hurricane Michael’s strength lists among the most intense hurricanes ever recorded at landfall in the United States.
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How to track the digital subscriptions silently draining your bank account
Do you know where your money is going?
You've signed up for so many digital subscriptions, you can't keep track of them anymore. Here's how to manage the ones you want—and cancel the ones you don't.
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Two astronauts just survived a ‘ballistic descent’ in a Russian rocket. Here’s everything we know.
American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin endured a rough emergency landing.
On Thursday morning, two astronauts en route to the International Space Station were forced to make an emergency landing after an issue with a booster during launch.
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Scientists just created healthy mice with same-sex parents
And some went on to have healthy babies of their own.
A team of researchers used embryonic stem cells and gene editing to produce mice born from two parents of the same sex. Some offspring went on to have healthy babies of…
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How to set up your home Wi-Fi
Secure your internet
So you're ready to stop stealing your neighbor's internet and set-up your home WiFi network. Congratulations! You’ll just need three things to get yourself started.
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Russia's rocket failure could leave the ISS without a crew
A lot on the ISS depends on the Soyuz.
Here's what Thursday's Soyuz launch failure could mean for operations on the International Space Station.
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Volcano decides eruptions are boring, tries sliding into the sea instead
Mount Etna is having trouble keeping it together.
In a new study, scientists illustrate how the southeastern flank Europe’s most active volcano is sliding into the Ionian Sea.
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A savvy shopper's guide to spotting fake Amazon reviews
Become a better judge.
Amazon’s review system helps shoppers separate the great from the garbage. But dishonest reviews muddy the waters. Here’s how to sort the real ones from the fakes.
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Glowing skin might start in your genes
Your DNA likely plays a key role, but there are still things you can do for your skin.
Store-bought and prescription products are not the only factors that keep skin looking polished. Our genetics also influence how our skin looks and behaves, but…
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Five giant backyard games to get you through fall
The end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 57.
My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap.
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Humans could survive underground, but it would take a lot more than shovels
How to avoid becoming a full-blown mole person.
With good design and a lot of psychological support, humans could make convincing—and surprisingly healthy—mole people.
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Here's how to find out if you were part of the latest Facebook hack
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Ethanol is renewable, but that doesn't mean it's good for us
Trump's ethanol plan would be good for farmers, terrible for your lungs.
The Trump administration wants to increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline, a move that could add to summertime smog from cars.
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What’s the difference between a comet and an asteroid?
They both orbit the sun, but they're very different.
But what are asteroids and comets, really?
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Shorter winters are stunting the growth of plants
Rising temperatures are shrinking winters, causing plants to bloom early and die young.
Climate change is shortening winters, bringing earlier springs and plant blooms. Until now, scientists believed premature blooming might not be all bad. But it turns out…
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