Yes, it's a super dumb redirect on their side - the US Pop Science redirects to the Australian Pop Science which does not have the same content because the AUS

Yes, it's a super dumb redirect on their side - the US Pop Science redirects to the Australian Pop Science which does not have the same content because the AUS Pop Science licenses the US Pop Science content, but not all of it. There are Grease Monkey scripts to stop the redirect or use a proxy, it's too much work for me to bother reading their content.