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NASA Deep Space Network radiotelescope sending radio waves to spacecraft, stars, and maybe aliens
Science

Alien civilizations could send us messages by 2029

By Briley Lewis

Two mudskippers fighting in the mud, with eyes and pectoral fins exposed.
Environment

Mudskippers blink—and that’s a huge evolutionary clue

By Laura Baisas

Security guard standing at damaged SpaceX Starship launch site
Technology

SpaceX’s Starship launch caused a ‘mini earthquake’ and left a giant mess

By Andrew Paul

A male chimpanzee named Frodo frowns.
Environment

Nice chimps finish last—so why aren’t all of them mean?

By Laura Baisas

A carnivorous Sarracenia plant growing in the wild.
Environment

Carnivorous pitcher plants may use tempting aromas to lure prey to their death

By Laura Baisas

Emae Island, one of the Outlier islands located in Central Vanuatu.
Science

‘Fingerprints’ confirm the seafaring stories of adventurous Polynesian navigators

By Laura Baisas

Giving drones inflatable suits could help them survive crash landings
Technology

Giving drones inflatable suits could help them survive crash landings

By Sara Kiley Watson

An animal coffin with a human-headed part-eel, part-cobra figure wearing a double crown. The figure is associated with Atum, an ancient Egyptian god of pre-existence and post-existence.
Science

Ancient Egyptians mummified animals and put them in beautiful tiny coffins

By Laura Baisas

A forest elephant with a raised trunk surrounded by greenery. Forest elephants are much smaller in size compared to savanna elephants, and their ears are an oval shape.
Environment

Elephants and humans share surprising similarities. A new docuseries dives deep into that relationship.

By Laura Baisas

Gray hair growing on a male's head.
Health

What’s at the root of gray hairs?

By Laura Baisas

SpaceX's Starship and its booster
Technology

Watch SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket explode

By Jamie Dickman

Dark clouds as a supercell thunderstorm develops on May 10, 2017 in Olustee, Oklahoma. Scientists and meteorologists from the Center for Severe Weather Research are getting a closer look to learn more about these destructive storms.
Environment

‘Erratic’ tornado hits Oklahoma as storms barrel east from the Great Plains

By Laura Baisas

African penguins standing on a sandy beach.
Environment

How African penguins continue to survive changes in climate

By Laura Baisas

Cannabis plant under purple weed grow light
Science

On 420, learn more about weed with these carefully cultivated science stories

By Jamie Dickman

Brown garden snail eating a strawberry on a white table
Environment

Experience the uncomfortable weirdness of a snail eating fruit

By Laura Baisas

Ancient Maya idol in Copán, Guatemala
Science

Ancient Maya masons had a smart way to make plaster stronger

By Rahul Rao

Different images from Popular Science Spring 2023 issue on a purple background. From left: a soapy poop emoji, a pill with multiple tools popping out, a group of Roman builders with Poseidon, beech mushrooms. At the center is a mug with a pink frosted donut in place of its handle with the text "Make It Work."
Science

PopSci has been making it work for 150 years—and we’re not stopping now

By Purbita Saha

Meteorites fall during a meteor shower.
Science

Get ready to watch the Lyrid meteor shower peak this weekend

By Laura Baisas

A polar bear standing on ice.
Environment

Why the biggest animals move so slowly

By Laura Baisas

Computer image rendering of NASA RHESSI solar studying satellite above Earth
Technology

NASA’s 600-pound solar radiation tracker is plummeting to Earth tomorrow

By Andrew Paul

Exoplanet KMT-2021-BLG-1898L b is a gas giant that looks like Jupiter but orbits a separate star. Illustration.
Science

An Einstein-backed method could help us find smaller exoplanets than ever before

By Briley Lewis

An orb weaver spider spins a web in a forest.
Environment

Spider glue might evolve faster than the spiders themselves

By Laura Baisas

Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup’s 2018 expedition.
Environment

Some coastal critters are thriving in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Laura Baisas

Person in a dark room watering a houseplant with a beam of light. Illustrated.
Environment

How to grow plants in the dark

By Ellen Airhart

The mysterious ‘Tully monster’ didn’t have a spine after all
Science

The mysterious ‘Tully monster’ didn’t have a spine after all

By Jamie Dickman

A group of people outside their cars along a closed road, wearing eclipse glasses to watch a solar eclipse.
Science

Watch this week’s rare solar eclipse from anywhere in the world

By Briley Lewis

Two carpet beetles on a white flower.
Environment

Ancient beetles had a taste for dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

The dig at the Villa of the Quintilii. The cella vinaria are in the foreground and treading floor and presses are behind.
Science

This ancient Roman villa was equipped with wine fountains

By Laura Baisas

People walk in a field with blooming poppy flowers near the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve following an unusually wet winter on April 14, 2023 near Lancaster, California. Historic levels of rainfall fell in some parts of California, amid a barrage of atmospheric river winter storms, which has led to a 'super bloom' of wildflowers in certain parts of the state this spring.
Environment

California’s eye-popping super bloom is one for the books

By Laura Baisas

A xenobot, or a living robot, in culture, under a microscope.
Technology

Meet xenobots, tiny machines made out of living parts

By Charlotte Hu

Callisto Jupiter moon in colorized NASA Galileo image
Science

Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds could be cool travel destinations in the future

By Jon Kelvey

What happens when a tree dies?
Science

What happens when a tree dies?

By Camille Stevens-Rumann/The Conversation

Satellite image of the powerful eruption.
Science

How the Tonga eruption rang Earth ‘like a bell’

By Rahul Rao

M87 black hole Event Horizon Telescope image sharpened by AI with PRIMO algorithm. The glowing event horizon is now clearer and thinner and the black hole at the center darker.
Science

You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.

By Purbita Saha

An artist’s illustration of Diamantinasaurus matildae’s head. This sauropod lived in Australia 100 million years ago.
Science

A rare, 95-million-year-old titanosaur skull found in Australia

By Laura Baisas

An artistic rendering of the open woodland habitat reconstruction at Moroto II with Morotopithecus bishopi vertically climbing with infant on back and Mount Moroto, an active, in background.
Environment

A plant-based diet full of leaves may have helped apes stand upright

By Laura Baisas

An adult Pygmy Zebra Octopus
Environment

Pygmy zebra octopus stripe patterns are as unique as human fingerprints

By Jamie Dickman

Skeleton of paratype of Icaronycteris gunnelli, the oldest bat skeletons ever found.
Environment

Oldest bat skeleton ever found by paleontologists finally has a name

By Laura Baisas

This online atlas is a goldmine for amateur intelligence sleuths
Technology

This online atlas is a goldmine for amateur intelligence sleuths

By Sarah Scoles

Twelve fresh eggs in a DIY wooden egg holder on a granite countertop.
DIY

Go ahead, leave your fresh eggs on the counter in this handmade wooden tray

By Jean Levasseur

Luna moth resting on a tree.
Science

The alluring tail of the Luna moth is surprisingly useless for finding a mate

By Jamie Dickman

A black sea cucumber on the floor of the Indian Ocean.
Environment

Sea cucumbers have a Spiderman-esque superpower—and it involves their butts

By Laura Baisas

bog butter in a small container
Science

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

By Popular Science Team

Magnetic field around sun's corona with NASA's Parker Solar Probe touching the edge. Illustrated.
Science

Why is the sun’s corona 200 times hotter than its surface?

By Briley Lewis

Artist's concept of JUICE spacecraft at Jupiter
Science

Follow the JUICE mission as it launches to Jupiter and its many mysterious moons

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of space telescope array using mirror membranes above Earth
Technology

Super-thin ‘mirror membranes’ could lead the way to bigger space telescopes

By Andrew Paul

A bird called an American Redstart sits on the branch of a tree.
Environment

Delaying departure may help birds migrate around climate change

By Laura Baisas

Chinese and English nametags hung up in an elementary school classroom
Science

Complex languages might shape bilingual brains differently

By Jamie Dickman

Magnetic tape and Blu-Ray Discs for data storage forming an infinity sign on a yellow background. Illustrated.
Technology

Inside the search for the best way to save humanity’s data

By Charlotte Hu

A juvenile elephant named Ko Raya (left) with Pang Pha (right) at the Berlin Zoo. Scientists believe that Pang Pha taught herself how to peel bananas.
Environment

Pang Pha the elephant learned to peel bananas by mimicking humans

By Laura Baisas

Three Mifeprex abortion pills at the The Hope Center for Women in Granite City, Illinois, three months after the FDA’s approval of the drug in September 2000.
Health

Competing rulings put access to abortion pill in jeopardy

By Laura Baisas

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin photographed on the moon during Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong
Science

Lunar laws could protect the moon from humanity

By Jon Kelvey

Pale blue Uranus with clearly detailed rings captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Science

Ice giant Uranus shows off its many rings in new JWST image

By Laura Baisas

Woolly mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia
Environment

Woolly mammoths evolved tiny ears over 700,000 years in Siberia

By Laura Baisas

Google Sycamore processor for quantum computer hanging from a server room with gold and blue wires
Technology

Quantum computers can’t teleport things—yet

By Rahul Rao

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees hits a home run against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning at Fenway Park on September 13, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Environment

Hotter weather could be changing baseball

By Laura Baisas

Icebergs over the ocean in Greenland.
Environment

Antarctic ice can melt 20 times faster than we thought

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the Earth's core with arrows showing how seismographs in Antarctica monitor the core.
Science

There might be underground ‘mountains’ near Earth’s core

By Laura Baisas

A close-up of extended polyps of an apparently healthy great star coral colony on a reef near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tentacles surrounding the mouth of each polyp help trap food particles for the coral to eat.
Environment

Caribbean coral is getting sick and dying. A probiotic could help.

By Laura Baisas

A purple hand reaching to touch a green tongue of an orange person with their mouth open frowning because they're tasting something digsuting
Science

Why food tastes wildly different to different people

By Julia Craven

Orion space capsule capturing surface of moon during NASA Artemis I mission
Science

Before the Artemis II crew can go to the moon, they need to master flying high above Earth

By Jon Kelvey

Mount Etna in Italy spews lava with snow around the top of the volcano.
Environment

Notes from meticulous medieval monks could illuminate this scientific wonder

By Laura Baisas

A snailfish that lives over 20,000 feet deep in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Environment

Say hello to the deepest-dwelling fish ever caught on camera

By Laura Baisas

An adult elephant walks with two juvenile elephants.
Environment

Scientists may have figured out why elephants exhibit complex emotions

By Laura Baisas

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