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25 images of space
Deep Space

NASA drops 25 dazzling images to celebrate Chandra X-ray space telescope

By Popular Science Team

Close up of pills in blister packs
Deep Space

How will astronauts handle expired drugs on Mars?

By Andrew Paul

a circle and pi = 3.14 written on a chalkboard
Science

Math teacher argues Pi Day should be July 22

By Ben Orlin

Plane cabin lighting simulating sunset
Aviation

Simulated sunrises and sunsets in planes may reduce jet lag

By Andrew Paul

five chimpanzeess sitting in tall, green grass
Animals

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

By Laura Baisas

Polymetallic nodules scattered across bottom of the ocean floor
Biology

‘Dark oxygen’ on ocean floor may rewrite Earth’s origins of life

By Andrew Paul

a brown dog looks up with a longing expression
Animals

Your dog can probably smell your stress

By Laura Baisas

Thick clouds of fine particulate matter blow off China in this 2016 satellite photo (oriented with north to the left).
Climate Change

How the Blob was born

By Michael Allen / Hakai Magazine

An old female rhesus macaque eats alone on the island of Cayo Santiago. As female macaques age, the size of their social network shrinks.
Animals

It’s not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age

By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine

Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.
Deep Space

400 years of telescopes: A window into our study of the cosmos

By Bill Gourgey

a flat map of the planet jupiter, showing reddish-orange lines and the planet's great red spot
Deep Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking

By Laura Baisas

This rotifer has just survived a life-threatening infection. When a fungal disease attacked, she switched on hundreds of genes that her ancestors copied from microbes, including antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria.
Animals

No sex? No problem. These tiny, asexual animals steal genes to make their own medicine 

By Lauren Leffer

a bee kicks away an ant
Animals

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

NASA VIPER Rover
Moons

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

By Tom Hawking

Martian landscape simulation room in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha
Mars

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

By Andrew Paul

a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.
Animals

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton
Dinosaurs

Stegosaurus ‘Apex’ sold for nearly $45 million to a billionaire

By Andrew Paul

Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.
Particle Physics

How the Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year

By Riccardo Maria Bianchi / The Conversation

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii
Archaeology

Two Pompeii skeletons reveal a new story of death at mega disaster

By Laura Baisas

starry night sky above telescopes on hill
Science

Want to catch the 2024 Perseid meteor shower? Here’s your best shot.

By Mary Beth Griggs

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