Author name: Maria Yoder

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 An exceptionally well-preserved corpse entombed in a small Austrian village’s church crypt has not only provided researchers with a previously unknown method of mummification. An analysis published May 2 in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, also solved the centuries’ old mystery about the mummy’s  identity. But the unique preparation […]

As storm season gets underway in much of the United States, the National Lighting Safety Council is spreading awareness about some outdated safety information. “The crouch”—where you sit in a crouched squatting position with your hands over your head—is not the best course of action during a thunder and lightning storm.  “If you’re caught outside