NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites. By PopSci Staff / Apr 24, 2024
A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite By Andrew Paul / Apr 24, 2024
These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think By PopSci Staff / Apr 24, 2024
NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube By Andrew Paul / Apr 24, 2024
Bioluminescence may have evolved 300 million years earlier than scientists previously thought By Laura Baisas / Apr 23, 2024
FAA now requires reentry license to prevent spacecraft getting stuck up there By Harri Weber / Apr 22, 2024
Read the last letters by George Mallory, who died exploring Mt. Everest in 1924 By Laura Baisas / Apr 22, 2024
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism By Laura Baisas / Apr 18, 2024
Plunge into an immersive IMAX movie featuring the James Webb Space Telescope By Laura Baisas / Apr 18, 2024
New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child By Laura Baisas / Apr 17, 2024
Daddy long-legs-inspired robot could one day squirm through Martian caves By Mack DeGeurin / Apr 17, 2024
Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way By Laura Baisas / Apr 16, 2024
Super-muscular 374-pound kangaroos once thumped around Australia and New Guinea By Laura Baisas / Apr 14, 2024
The history-altering medical mystery of an astronaut who fell in the bathroom By PopSci Staff / Apr 13, 2024
Youth-stealing stars could explain ‘missing giants’ at the Milky Way’s center By Briley Lewis / Apr 10, 2024
The full sensory experience of eclipse totality, from inside an Audi convertible By Kristin Shaw / Apr 8, 2024
Could a self-sustaining starship carry humanity to distant worlds? By Christopher Mason / MIT Press Reader / Apr 7, 2024
Make it snow! Researchers explore sci-fi scenarios of human weather control By Mack DeGeurin / Apr 5, 2024
New fossils of tiny, toothy early mammals could be a major missing link By Laura Baisas / Apr 4, 2024
Mining of materials needed for ‘green revolution’ puts great ape population at risk By Laura Baisas / Apr 3, 2024
Would you wear this ‘shoe-like vessel’ made from genetically engineered bacteria? By Andrew Paul / Apr 3, 2024