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Curious and Happy Tricolor Dog with Tongue out
Dogs

Why dogs tilt their heads, according to science

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NGC 3938 is a face-on spiral galaxy whose orientation gives us an unobstructed view of its disk. X-ray emissions from Chandra (magenta) detail energetic X-ray binaries and supernova remnants scattered across dust lanes in an optical image (white, blue and gold) from Adam Block with Mt. Lemmon Observatory. Face-on orientations are important for galactic studies because they provide the most unobstructed views of a galaxy’s stars and gas.
Solar System

16 glistening galaxies shine in new images form NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory

By Popular Science Team

a bird with white and black feathers flies over the water with a fish in its beak
Birds

Tweet! Here are the winners of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

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Dogs

Say hello to the TSA’s Cutest Canine of 2026

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a small mammal with pink skin and large teeth called a naked mole rat pokes out of a burrow
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Naked mole rats make their own perfume—and it’s excellent birth control

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Yellowstone eruption, illustration. Yellowstone National Park in America is sited above an underground magma chamber. It is, in effect, a potential supervolcano. This illustration shows a section through the Earth during an eruption.
Ask Us Anything

How likely is a Yellowstone ‘supervolcano’ eruption today?

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a fly with large eyes looks through a hole in a green leaf
Biology

11 stunning images celebrating Earth’s life—and the scientists who study it

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Bears

Bear dies after getting trapped in hot car

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Environment

All-terrain wheelchair debuts at Zion National Park

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Wildlife

10 moving images from the International Nature Photography Festival

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Southern elephant seal pups explore shallow rock pools
Ocean

20 magnificent finalists from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards

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Egyptian curator Ibrahim El-Nawawy examines the gold funerary mask of King Tutankhamun at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, April 6th 1977. The mask is one of 55 treasures from the Pharaoh's tomb that will go on display on April 15th. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

King Tut was buried with more than a hundred pairs of underwear—all tailored to fit his massive butt 

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two bald eagles
Birds

Jackie the bald eagle is ‘unstable’

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a tiger shark attacks a sea turtle
Wildlife

16 gorgeous images from the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Awards

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Close up shot of someone putting sunscreen lotion on a child on a sunny day.
Sun

4 sunscreen myths too many people still get wrong

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Bears

Mother bear kills cub in second tragic incident at Brooks River

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dog flies through the air to catch a toy
Pets

35 delightful images from the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards

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Young mother sitting and holding her newborn child while breastfeeding her child on sofa. She is looking at her baby with eyes contact.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Nursing babies spit backwash into the breast—and that’s a good thing 

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a tiger in water near mangroves
Wildlife

18 stunning wildlife images from the Mangrove Photography Awards

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two bald eagles and their chicks
Birds

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow raise $10 million to save habitat

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people sitting in crowded airplane.
Ask Us Anything

Airplane seats really are getting smaller

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The broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended Apollo 11 (below) and the pen that saved the crew and the mission.
Space

Pen that saved the Apollo 11 astronauts sells for over $800K at auction

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Plate of sliced mushrooms.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

We don’t actually know who pulled the greatest con in mushroom history 

By Popular Science Team

Library of Congress, Washington DC, America The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Yes, there really is cocaine in the Library of Congress  

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Birds

One of Jackie and Shadow’s chicks accidentally left the nest

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Environment

16 gorgeous images from the 1839 Awards’ Color Photography Contest

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Evolution

Why 90% of us are right-handed

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Round sourdough bread loaf, with a crispy crust, dusted with flour, resting on a rustic linen cloth on a wooden surface. Home bakery, traditional baking concept.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Scientists used melted mummy juice to make sourdough bread

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A little boy in a striped shirt holding a sparkler in front of a lakeshore.
Ask Us Anything

Why summer flies by as an adult—but lasted forever when you were 10

By Popular Science Team

two young eagles in a nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s chicks’ genders revealed: It’s a boy…and a girl!

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a whale underwater
Wildlife

11 captivating images from the Exposure One Photography Awards

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Queen Marie Antoinette of France and two of her Children Walking in The Park of Trianon, 1785.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Marie Antoinette probably got braces to straighten her teeth

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three birds in a nest
Birds

Bald eagle Jackie shoos away Fiona the squirrel

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two adult eagles and two babies in nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s chicks no longer sleep with mom in the nest bowl

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a sunset over a glacier
Climate Change

10 images of Iceland’s changing landscape

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a swimming hippo
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

There’s more than one way to sterilize a cocaine hippo. Unfortunately, both ways suck. 

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baby eagles with parent in nest
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets practice stomping and flapping

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Close up of an airplane toilet with the lid open.
Ask Us Anything

Why airplane toilets are tiny engineering marvels

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Health

The explosive history of spontaneous combustion

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two bald eagle chicks
Birds

Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets can now see like their parents

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This scene was captured at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, under exceptionally pure observing conditions where the boundary between Earth and sky feels almost seamless. The Milky Way stretches across the sky, with its dense central bulge rising prominently overhead. To the left, the Magellanic Clouds, two neighboring satellite galaxies, are visible to the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere. Subtle airglow adds another layer to the scene, a natural emission produced by chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere at altitudes of 80 to 100 kilometers. In this image, it reveals a range of colors, with green tones on the left and warmer reddish hues toward the right. In the foreground stands the VLT, operated by the European Southern Observatory. Situated at 2,635 meters above sea level, the site benefits from extremely dry conditions, stable atmospheric layers, and minimal light pollution, resulting in more than 300 clear nights each year. The observatory consists of four primary telescopes, each equipped with 8.2-meter mirrors. One of them, UT4 (Yepun), projects four sodium laser beams into the sky, creating artificial guide stars at an altitude of approximately 90 kilometers. These reference points enable adaptive optics systems to correct for atmospheric distortion in real time, significantly enhancing the clarity and precision of astronomical observations.
Space

19 breathtaking images from the Milky Way Photographer of the Year 2026 awards

By Popular Science Team

Woman crying while watching TV
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Movies use this one musical trick to make you feel miserable 

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

The real reasons permanent Daylight Saving Time never stuck

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A green parrot stands outside of its cage looking at a young boy with brown hair wearing a pink shirt.
Birds

Why parrots talk like humans

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Wildlife

18 silly finalists from the Comedy Wildlife People’s Choice Awards

By Popular Science Team

Male and female Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) at Gosbergkilen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why do female reindeer have antlers? Cannibalism, probably. 

By Popular Science Team

tiger amongst mangroves
Wildlife

8 cool images from the Mangrove Photography Awards

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Health

One man’s obsessive quest to weigh the human soul

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Hand holds vintage photograph of young boy riding a plastic toy horse with pile of old photos in background.
Ask Us Anything

Why don’t we remember being babies?

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Title: Burned Land Credit: © Brais Lorenzo, EFE, Revista 5W, El País Caption: A man fights a wildfire with a branch in Cualedro. When resources are stretched, residents use whatever is available to extinguish flames, including branches, farming tools, and water hoses. Ourense, Galicia, Spain, 15 August 2025. Story: 2025 was a record year for wildfires in Europe. More than 200,000 hectares burned across Galicia during Spain’s worst fire season in about three decades. The increasingly severe fires in this region are attributed to drought and heat intensified by climate change, rural depopulation, and shortsighted forest management policies, including the widespread planting of highly flammable non-native species. Born in Ourense, the photographer grew up with the smell of smoke every summer and has documented Galician wildfires since 2011.
Environment

17 poignant images from the 2026 World Press Photo Contest

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This image provided by NASA, astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
Moons

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch: ‘Looking back at Earth…it truly emphasized how alike we are’

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Moons

16 inspiring Artemis II photos that’ll make you feel like a tiny Earthling

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Two male frigate birds opposing with their gonflated red neck pouches
Birds

Flirty birds inflate throat pouch to attract a mate

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three blue-green eggs in a nest sitting in a tree
Birds

10 wild photos of bird eggs

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Close up of braces on Hispanic boy's teeth. He's wearing a blue collared shirt and there's light streaming in behind him. All we see is the bottom of his nose and chin.
Evolution

Ancient humans didn’t need braces. So why do we?

By Popular Science Team

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Health

America’s deadly 1920s obsession with radioactive water

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three polar bear cubs curled up with their mother
Bears

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 announces People’s Choice winners

By Popular Science Team

19th century female ghost listening to phonograph
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Phosphorescent paint inspired Victorian-era Australians to dress up as ghosts and pull pranks

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Projects

Houston city bus listed on Facebook Marketplace

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a giraffe and her baby watch an airplane land
Bears

32 incredible wildlife images from the Nature Photography Contest

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woman in front of crater
Climate Change

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

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a seal swimming amongst fish
Wildlife

16 award-winning photographs from around the world

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A full-body shot of a Dilophosaurus animatronic at Universal Studios, shown with its colorful neck frill fully extended. The dinosaur is depicted mid-spray, with a stream of water shooting from its open mouth, and is surrounded by dense artificial tropical foliage.
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What ‘Jurassic Park’ got wrong about venomous dinosaurs

By Popular Science Team

a baby lion runs into its mother's butt
Wildlife

14 silly, never-before-seen images from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team