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# Popular Science. Demystifying the worlds of science and technology since 1872.

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### Men speak with a vocal fry just as much as women

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### The Bambu Lab A1 is the best multi-color 3D printer for beginners and it’s up to $260 off at Amazon

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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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### Why the Louvre heist doesn’t surprise museum security experts

It’s often more ‘smash and grab’ than ‘Mission: Impossible.’

By Andrew Paul

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### How to use Visual Intelligence on your iPhone with iOS 26

Your Apple phone has some new AI powers with iOS 26 and Visual Intelligence.

By David Nield

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### Is fear contagious?

Fear isn’t just personal—it spreads through sight, smell, and even subconsciously.

By Sarah Philip

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### Rare 19th-century coins found after fire at historic tavern

Last December, flames engulfed Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum. Now archaeologists get to dig beneath the floorboards.

By Laura Baisas

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### Donor organ’s blood type altered for the first time

Scientists removed the blood’s antigens to make a kidney the universal type-O.

By Andrew Paul

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### Forgotten rival of Ancient Rome featured an impressive water basin

Gabii was a once powerful city, but was largely abandoned by 50 CE.

By Margherita Bassi

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### This national park uses helicopters for bison round-up duty

About 400 bison will be dispersed to tribal lands amid ongoing conservation efforts.

By Andrew Paul

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### Ultra-endurance athletes can burn up to 8,000 calories per day

A ‘metabolic ceiling’ still keeps the body in check, even when running hundreds of miles at a go.

By Laura Baisas

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### Robot hands are becoming more human

From Boston Dynamics’ three-fingered Atlas bot to Figure’s five-digit model.

By Mack DeGeurin

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