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Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The high-adrenaline winter sport of skijoring, derived from the Norwegian word for “ski driving,” takes so many forms that it even defies uniform pronunciation. “If you go to France, it’s skijoering, pronounced SKEE-zhor-ing. In German, it’s skijöring, pronounced SHEE-yuh-ring,”

It’s incredibly difficult to pull off the perfect prank. It takes days—sometimes even months or years—of preparation and execution to get it right. Many prank attempts fail in the first few stages due to timing, lack of commitment, or simply because the target audience didn’t get the joke. If done well, however, pranks can fool

The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading Like humans, some other primates like to huddle in hot springs. Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), also called “snow monkeys,” famously gather at natural hot springs to soak together for hours. They prefer steaming

Veronika the cow is the first recorded non-primate mammal to demonstrate flexible, multi-purpose tool use Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for

În noiembrie 2008, pe o pârtie din Alpi, un tânăr german de 25 de ani a fost surprins de o avalanșă. Zăpada l-a îngropat timp de aproximativ 15 minute, iar lipsa de oxigen i-a oprit corpul din mecanismele lui firești. Un prieten l-a scos la suprafață și i-a început imediat resuscitarea. La spital, medicii au

Christopher Michel/Contour RA by Getty Images Civilisations name their ages after materials. In school, we learn about the Stone Age, the Bronze Age – and we are currently in a silicon age characterised by computers and phones. What might define the next age? Omar Yaghi at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks a family of

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). They look like LEGO. Black cubes of it, scattered across the seafloor as if a toddler has thrown a tantrum and stormed off mid-play. I exhale, lowering my neoprene-clad body deeper into the Atlantic for a closer look. The blocks aren’t plastic, of course. They are

MoM-z14 existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, according a team of astronomers led by Dr. Rohan Naidu from the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT. This Webb image shows the galaxy MoM-z14 as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the Big Bang. Image credit:

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A few years ago, psychologists began to report a surge in young people presenting with self-diagnosed dissociative identity disorder, a complex mental health condition that features multiple personalities and significant distress and dysfunction. Some clinicians began to worry that these cases could be traced back to TikTok, where a small group of influencers claiming to