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  • How to watch Star Wars in order

    How to watch Star Wars in order0

    Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Since filmmaker George Lucas introduced audiences to the ways of the Jedi with Star Wars (now titled A New Hope) in 1977, the chronicles of that galaxy far, far away have grown to 11 movies, nine animated shows, five

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  • Watch a classified FM radio training video from WW2

    Watch a classified FM radio training video from WW20

    Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s worth remembering that one of today’s most commonplace pieces of technology frequently confounded the public when it first hit the marker. While fewer and fewer people are listening to FM radio today, it was hot stuff amid its

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  • Washington state moves to ban forced employee microchips

    Washington state moves to ban forced employee microchips0

    Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s a common trope in dystopian sci-fi stories: an evil corporation requires its employees to receive microchip implants in order to constantly monitor their whereabouts. While there aren’t any known instances of the scenario (so far), a pair of

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  • How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse

    How infighting led the Maya civilization to catastrophic collapse0

    The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya David Stuart Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Before the 1970s, ancient Maya history was impenetrable. The civilization’s grand ceremonial buildings and striking art, created in parts of Mesoamerica during the Classic Maya period (ad 150–900) had tantalized foreign visitors since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in

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