“There was a lot we didn’t know when we picked ‘Play’ as the topic for this issue. We didn’t know that a pandemic would put much of the world on lockdown, or that the Olympics would be postponed. But, in the time of COVID-19, play is an escape. So please consider this magazine a reprieve […]
What Came Before? The Origins Issue of Popular Science is available now. THE MISSING MICROBE An estimated 95 percent of Mongolians are, genetically speaking, lactose-intolerant. Yet in the frost-free summer months, they may be getting up to half their calories from milk products. PopSci chronicles archaeogeneticist Christina Warinner’s quest to get to the bottom of […]
New York, NY (March 12, 2020) Bonnier Corp. has signed an exclusive licensing-agency agreement for Popular Science with Evolution USA, it was announced today by Elise Contarsy, Senior Vice President, Bonnier Consumer Products Group. Evolution will be actively seeking new licensing opportunities for Popular Science in a wide range of industries. Additionally, Evolution will work […]
CORINNE IOZZIO NAMED EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF POPULAR SCIENCE New York, NY (March 10, 2020) — Corinne Iozzio has been named Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science, it was announced today by Gregory Gatto, Executive Vice President of Bonnier Media. Her promotion is effective immediately. Iozzio joined Popular Science in 2009 as Associate Editor, and became Senior Associate […]
POPULAR SCIENCE ANNOUNCES 100 BEST PRODUCTS OF 2019 December 3, 2019 (New York, NY)—Popular Science is proud to announce the 2019 “Best of What’s New” Award winners, the 100 products and technologies that represent the most significant advancements in their categories. Now in its 32nd year, the awards celebrate the items that make our lives […]
“I’ll be real honest with you; we cooked up this issue as an excuse to talk about UFOs. Here are some of the names we considered: The UFO Issue. Invasions. Aliens. Weird Science… Eventually, we settled on what you have in front of you: Out There. And whoa, was that ever a good choice. Keep […]
“We’ll need to change course immediately to avoid creating a planet that we can’t survive. Otherwise, we won’t be exploring space out of a sense of adventure; we’ll be fleeing a broken world that spat us out.” Editor-in-Chief, Popular Science, Joe Brown Plastic Eaters Plastics crowd our landfills, and their microparticles permeate the oceans, […]
May 29, 2019, New York, NY — Bill Nye will co-host Popular Science’s flagship podcast, The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week. It was announced today by science editor and podcast host Rachel Feltman. “You have had an interesting career full of weird stuff, so we thought that you would be the perfect guest to […]
