Samsung’s 100x zooming smartphone camera requires a fancy lens and impossibly steady hands By Stan Horaczek / Feb 12, 2020
A food scientist breaks down the thermodynamics between marshmallows and hot chocolate By Molly Glick / Jan 13, 2020
Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery of MLB’s home run surge By Lauren Theisen / Dec 19, 2019
There’s a chance the black hole at the center of our galaxy is actually a wormhole By Charlie Wood / Oct 25, 2019
A new take on creating an invisibility shield borrows from classical physics By Jess Romeo / Oct 24, 2019
Here’s how life could thrive on a planet orbiting a black hole—and other alternative suns By Charlie Wood / Oct 18, 2019
That groundbreaking photo of a black hole has raised some mighty big questions By Neel V. Patel / Oct 11, 2019
NASCAR may be the fastest road to learning about physics By Christine Helms/The Conversation / Aug 15, 2019
What’s really behind baseball’s recent home run surge By Brian J. Love and Michael L. Burns/The Conversation / Jul 23, 2019
Smartphone camera flashes are terrible because they don’t really flash By Stan Horaczek / Apr 17, 2019
Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core By Charlie Wood / Nov 10, 2018
The physics Nobel Prize goes to high-tech lasers and honors the first woman in 55 years By Charlie Wood / Oct 2, 2018
Something called ‘squeezed light’ is about to give us a closer look at cosmic goldmines By Matthew R. Francis / Sep 4, 2018
We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from By Neel V. Patel / Jul 12, 2018
We may finally know how Easter Island’s giant statues got their jaunty stone hats By Kat Eschner / Jun 5, 2018
Stephen Hawking, a man synonymous with the mysteries of the cosmos, is dead at 76 By Mary Beth Griggs / Mar 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking thinks he knows what happened before the beginning of time By Rachel Feltman / Mar 2, 2018
Three men just won a Nobel Prize for the work of more than a thousand people By Mark D. Kaufman / Oct 3, 2017
The detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime just won a Nobel Prize By Sara Chodosh / Oct 3, 2017
Mayweather and McGregor’s 8-ounce boxing gloves have started a science fight By Stan Horaczek / Aug 24, 2017
Raindrops spew bacteria into the air as they burst—and it’s kind of beautiful By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Mar 7, 2017
From the archives: In 1999, Eugene Cernan knew we’d make it to Mars By Popular Science, July 1999, by Frank Vizard / Jan 19, 2017
Iridescent Leaves Take Advantage Of Quantum Mechanics To Thrive In The Shade By Peter Hess / Oct 24, 2016
Scientist Thinks He’s Proven Hawking’s Theory That Black Holes Glow By Ryan F. Mandelbaum / Aug 15, 2016