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Frog image in black and white shot on iPhone.
Technology

Check out some of the winners of the latest iPhone Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a child exploring dinosaur bones
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why kids make the best amateur fossil hunters

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Live from New York: ‘The Weirdest Thing’ podcast (in person!)
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Live from New York: ‘The Weirdest Thing’ podcast (in person!)

By Popular Science Team

fluffy chicken in some grass
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Before humans ate chickens, we treasured them as exotic pets

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a still from the film, The Princess Bride
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Fire swamps are more than just folk legend

By Popular Science Team

A green adult L. heckscheri frog sits amid some rocks and fungus.
Wildlife

Check out some of the weirdest warty frogs in North America

By Popular Science Team

a person sleeping
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The mysterious sickness that made a million of people fall asleep at once

By Popular Science Team

a big pile of logs
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This ancient civilization literally used their heads to move massive logs for miles

By Popular Science Team

a clown in makeup in front of some balloons
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

There’s a good reason why so many adults are scared of clowns

By Popular Science Team

a whale breaching over the ocean waves
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Sunken whale carcasses create entire marine cities on the ocean floor

By Popular Science Team

A meteor from the Eta Aquarids streaks through the night sky.
Space

The history of Halley’s Comet—and the fireball show it brings us every spring

By Popular Science Team

elden ring screenshot of the great tree
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Elden Ring’s corpse wax is real—sort of

By Popular Science Team

engineers working on voyager 2
Deep Space

How is Voyager’s vintage technology still flying?

By Popular Science Team

bog butter in a small container
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

‘Bog butter’ is exactly what it sounds like: delicious

By Popular Science Team

two goldfish swimming in front of some green foliage
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Goldfish learned to drive tanks on wheels—and that’s not even the best part

By Popular Science Team

A winning picture of mutated pollen grains, colorized, from the Koch Institute Image Awards.
Biology

Under a microscope, mouse colons and mutant pollen become art

By Popular Science Team

a taxidermy stork with a spear through its neck
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A stork impaled by a 30-inch spear flew thousands of miles to make it home

By Popular Science Team

a person putting a finger in their ear
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Your earwax contains multitudes—of secrets about your health

By Popular Science Team

screenshot of the monty python silly walk
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Monty Python ‘silly walk’ could replace your gym workout

By Popular Science Team

tube sponges in a coral reef
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A sea sponge’s sneeze lasts a very, very long time

By Popular Science Team

Pitcher plant with two dead spotted salamanders captured for photography awards
Ocean

13 otherworldly photos that were actually taken on Earth

By Popular Science Team

an aye aye in a tree
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These long-fingered lemurs pick and eat their boogers, just like humans

By Popular Science Team

Hippo with its jaws open behind a heron in the water
Wildlife

These might be the funniest animal photos you’ve seen this year

By Popular Science Team

A SpaceX rocket flies above a Florida swamp in June.
Science

Trash-eating elephants, a lava landscaper, and 8 more of this year’s best NatGeo photos

By Popular Science Team

The 100 greatest innovations of 2022
Best of What's New

The 100 greatest innovations of 2022

By Popular Science Team

a green snake coiled on a branch
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Snakes may not have legs, but they do have two penises

By Popular Science Team

a bird perched on a flowering tree
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How do we know that birds are real?

By Popular Science Team

The hand of a day gecko, showing bones, tissues, and cells.
Biology

9 stunning pictures of the microscopic realm

By Popular Science Team

a cricket perched on a stem
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Mind-controlling ‘zombie’ parasites are real

By Popular Science Team

A bumblebee on a blade of grass
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Bees choose violence when attempting honey heists

By Popular Science Team

two rats peeking over a ledge
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Rats can’t barf—here’s why

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two black swans swimming in a pond
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A bisexual goose raising a family with two black swans isn’t as strange as it sounds

By Popular Science Team

Wild oysters are tastiest in months that end with ‘R’—here’s why
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Wild oysters are tastiest in months that end with ‘R’—here’s why

By Popular Science Team

Parasitic fungi bursting from a fly's back in macro
Science

These thoughtful nature images were captured by scientists in action

By Popular Science Team

Human echolocation is real—and you might be able to do it
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Human echolocation is real—and you might be able to do it

By Popular Science Team

a beaver in a stream
Space

Martian beavers, intentional explosions, and other weird facts from 150 years of PopSci

By Popular Science Team

an aerial view of an atomic garden
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Nuclear war inspired peacetime ‘gamma gardens’ for growing mutant plants

By Popular Science Team

a toilet floating in space
Space

The inside scoop on Apollo 10’s infamous floating turd

By Popular Science Team

SARS-CoV-2 virus, the origin of the Omicron, BA.2, and Delta variants, under a microscope
COVID-19

‘Stealth Omicron’ is spreading slowly in the US

By Popular Science Team

Why young orphans were once used as human refrigerators
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why young orphans were once used as human refrigerators

By Popular Science Team

a frog and spider over an art illustration
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why some tiny frogs have tarantulas as bodyguards

By Popular Science Team

viper illustration
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This noxious island is so full of snakes, people can’t even visit

By Popular Science Team

a spotted lanternfly with green illustrated background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Spotted lanternfly goo is surprisingly tasty

By Popular Science Team

The 100 greatest innovations of 2021
Best of What's New

The 100 greatest innovations of 2021

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planets lined up over an art illustration
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Death ‘by planet’ was surprisingly common in the 1600s

By Popular Science Team

an astronaut stands next to an american flag on the moon
Moons

Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did.

By Popular Science Team

Crow over a green art illustration background
Birds

Even more proof that crows are terrifyingly smart

By Popular Science Team

art illustration with a pile of slime and the weirdest thing eyeball
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How sexy Victorian mediums tricked scientists into believing in ectoplasm

By Popular Science Team

Unmarked vials to represent the COVID-19 vaccines in the US
Vaccines

Which COVID-19 vaccine is the best?

By Popular Science Team

Red pickup truck stopped in front of a tornado in Nebraska
Weather

3 wild ideas for how to stop a tornado

By Popular Science Team

a baby chimp and baby human
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

What scientists learned when they tried to raise a chimp with a human baby

By Popular Science Team

Hairs and pores on a southern oak leaf
Animals

11 views of the microscopic world in brilliant detail

By Popular Science Team

The US has had more than 40 million COVID cases since the pandemic began
COVID-19

The US has had more than 40 million COVID cases since the pandemic began

By Popular Science Team

Wildfire in forest with smoke and flames.
Climate Change

The Dixie fire is on track to be California’s biggest ever

By Popular Science Team

an old drawing of a kitchen with a large open fire and a small dog running on a mill-like wheel to turn the spit
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

This dog was genetically engineered to be a kitchen appliance

By Popular Science Team

Adult otter biting pup
Animals

8 animals being naturally hilarious

By Popular Science Team

Sea turtle. Queensland, Australia.
Wildlife

9 goofy, award-winning animal photos to turn your day around

By Popular Science Team

an old-fashioned medical tool covered in a serrated blade
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.

By Popular Science Team

Soldier termites marching
Evolution

These photos are proof that evolution is wild and wondrous

By Popular Science Team

a skyscraper against a green background with rays of light beaming off of it onto the ground
Sun

Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays

By Popular Science Team

an old photo of a man running barefoot on a green illustrated background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

How Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon without shoes

By Popular Science Team

a woman on her side clutching her stomach as if in pain against a green background
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps

By Popular Science Team

an illustration of a bee hive on a tree branch against a green background with a small drawing of an eyeball logo
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

What’s stranger than bees telling time? How we learned that they can.

By Popular Science Team

Pandemic! 10 of the Deadliest Diseases
Diseases

Pandemic! 10 of the Deadliest Diseases

By Popular Science Team