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A close-up view of a green traffic light with an image of two walking lesbian girls at the center of Vienna, Austria.
Technology

Some of the world’s smartest traffic lights are getting smarter

By Andrew Paul

NASA South Pole Safety Challenge logo on lunar surface background
Science

NASA needs your help designing a gurney for the moon

By Andrew Paul

Close up of tweezers holding small diamond
Science

Diamond optical discs could store data for millions of years

By Andrew Paul

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it
Technology

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

By Andrew Paul

Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on November 2, 2016 in Paris, France. It's the finest example of French Gothic architecture and the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world.
Technology

Notre Dame rises from the ashes in behind-the-scenes photos

By Laura Baisas

Each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope.
Science

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti

By Laura Baisas

Aurora MK-II rocket plane above Earth
Technology

Watch the first commercial supersonic test flight in over 20 years

By Andrew Paul

a large lump of fat, oil, grease, and other refuse dug up from a sewer on display in a musuem
Technology

The battle against fatbergs has a new weapon

By Laura Baisas

Gloved hand pointing to LignoSat wooden satellite prototype
Technology

World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths

By Andrew Paul

Close up of C-17 cargo plane
Technology

Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

By Andrew Paul

Male Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) in flight
Technology

Feather-inspired wing flaps may prevent planes from stalling

By Andrew Paul

A tiny home made using the nacelle casing from a wind turbine
Environment

Recycled wind turbines may one day become tiny homes and floating playgrounds

By Andrew Paul

FastRig wing-sail deployed on cargo ship at dock
Technology

A nuclear waste tanker ship is testing a 65-foot-tall wing-sail

By Andrew Paul

A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.
Science

NASA unveils model of LISA, a satellite array for studying ripples in space-time

By Andrew Paul

three photos: a rat holding orange string, a woman with a robot rat on her head and a robot rat with wires coming out of it
Technology

Meet the engineer who crafted a genius animatronic ‘Ratatouille’ Halloween costume

By Eric Alt

This photo taken during a media tour on October 11, 2024 shows the neutrino detector, a stainless steel and acrylic sphere around 35 meters in diameter, at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno) in Kaiping, in southern China's Guangdong province.
Science

China races to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics

By Andrew Paul

Dragonfly wing on black background in neon light. Close-up.
Technology

To build a better dome, look to dragonfly wings

By Andrew Paul

Concept art depicting the X-37B space plane aerobraking above Earth
Technology

Space Force’s mysterious X-37B is testing its ‘aerobraking’

By Andrew Paul

Close up of smallest Rubik's Cube being solved with tweezers
Technology

The world’s tiniest Rubik’s cube is as wide as 3 grains of rice

By Andrew Paul

tropicana sign outside hotel
Technology

Watch 2,200 pounds of explosives implode the Tropicana Las Vegas

By Popular Science Team