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A group of mice eats a scone.
Science

Forget black coffee—a hormone shot helped tipsy rodents sober up

By Laura Baisas

A worm at the bottom of a shot glass of Mezcal.
Science

What kind of worm is in your mezcal?

By Laura Baisas

Sun rays shining through clouds at sunset on Mars.
Science

NASA’s Curiosity rover captures a moody Martian sunset for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Underwater image of sunken ship, Ironton, in Lake Huron
Technology

Get a high-tech tour of the long-lost Ironton shipwreck discovered in the Great Lakes

By Andrew Paul

A variety of illustrated exoplanets.
Science

Sorry, Star Trek fans, the real planet Vulcan doesn’t exist

By Briley Lewis

Cars in a traffic jam emitting exhaust.
Environment

Almost everyone in the world breathes unhealthy air

By Laura Baisas

NASA Mars Perserverance rover on Mars
Technology

SETI thinks AI could help rovers search for life on Mars

By Andrew Paul

Three honeybees fly near a crocus in a field.
Environment

Like the first flying humans, honeybees use linear landmarks to navigate

By Laura Baisas

Mexico's Monte Alban archaeological site, including stone step and structures with mountains in the distance.
Science

What the longest-lasting Mesoamerican cities all had in common

By Laura Baisas

The skeleton of a possible Yamnaya horse rider.
Science

People may have been riding horses as early as 5,000 years ago

By Rahul Rao

A man holes a phones and texts with a combination of words and emois.
Health

People use emojis to soften the blow of negative feelings

By Laura Baisas

Two orca whales, one with it's head and flukes above the water and the other with its nose out of the water.
Environment

Toothed whales turned their vocal fry into a hunting superpower

By Laura Baisas

DART spacecraft impact on Dimorphos asteroid in a computer model with yellow, gray, and black
Science

5 ways we know DART crushed that asteroid (but not literally)

By Jon Kelvey

A giant lacewing as seen under a microscope. The insect is a moth relative with large wings.
Environment

A bug expert went shopping at Walmart—and made a historic insect discovery

By Laura Baisas

The entrance to the Mycenae citadel in Greece called the Lion Gate.
Science

Details of life in Bronze Age Mycenae could lie at the bottom of a well

By Laura Baisas

A mythological Norse beast may have just been a weird, hungry whale
Science

A mythological Norse beast may have just been a weird, hungry whale

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

The partner of one Caribbean flamingo helps it out in an argument with another pair.
Environment

Flamingoes have big personalities—and their friendships prove it

By Laura Baisas

A close-up view of astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, photographed during the extravehicular activity (EVA) on the surface of the moon
Technology

Lunar dust is notoriously hard to clean, but a new spray might do the trick

By Andrew Paul

a person putting a finger in their ear
Science

Your earwax contains multitudes—of secrets about your health

By Popular Science Team

A white-bellied woodstar hummingbird flying. Their colorful throat feathers are believed to help them find a mate.
Environment

This hybrid hummingbird’s colorful feathers are a genetic puzzle

By Laura Baisas

An artist's conception of a supermassive black hole.
Science

Black hole collisions could possibly send waves cresting through space-time

By Briley Lewis

A person pressing buttons on a microwave oven.
DIY

How to get more lemon juice, and 8 other genius microwave hacks

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A view of the planet as seen from the International Space Station
Science

Seismologists might have identified the deepest layer of Earth’s core

By Jack Izzo

A person holding a shiny, clean showerhead, and you can see their reflection in it.
DIY

Use citric acid to clean your dishwasher and other gross household items

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Gloved hands placing computer microchip on underneath microscope lens.
Technology

Scientists eye lab-grown brains to replace silicon-based computer chips

By Andrew Paul

A glassy-winged sharpshooter rests on a leaf.
Environment

Watch these tiny bugs catapult urine with their butts

By Laura Baisas

the spotify app on a phone screen
Technology

Spotify wants to understand your body on music

By Charlotte Hu

Venus (left), the waning crescent Moon, and Jupiter (right), appear together in the skies above Salt Lake City, Utah on January 31, 2019.
Science

March skies will bring a lunar illusion and planetary reunion

By Laura Baisas

A moniker fairy lantern plant detonates, with its petals unfurling.
Environment

Scientists just rediscovered a rare, fungi-eating ‘fairy lantern’

By Laura Baisas

An at-home COVID-19 and flu test box.
Health

An at-home test for both COVID-19 and the flu gains approval

By Laura Baisas

Why the Space Force is testing out tech for small, high-flying satellites
Technology

Why the Space Force is testing out tech for small, high-flying satellites

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Solar flare shooting out from left side of the sun seen in ultraviolet blue through NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
Science

Hold onto your satellites: The sun is about to get a lot stormier

By Jon Kelvey

Light pollution is erasing the stars in the sky—here’s why we should care
Science

Light pollution is erasing the stars in the sky—here’s why we should care

By Chris Impey and Connie Walker / The Conversation

Two University of Colorado Boulder scientists in jackets carrying a log with a tumpstrap and their heads
Environment

Scientists may have solved an old Puebloan mystery by strapping giant logs to their foreheads

By Jack Izzo

A scientist holds up a tooth recovered from an archaeological dig in Denmark.
Health

Scientists tracked the plague’s journey through Denmark using really old teeth

By Laura Baisas

Purple sea urchins clumped together in an urchin barren.
Environment

These urchin-eating sea stars might be helping us reduce carbon levels

By Jack Izzo

What ancient tsunamis can teach us about future disasters
Environment

What ancient tsunamis can teach us about future disasters

By Nathaniel Scharping / Hakai Magazine

An illustration of Hyneria udlezinye, a large, predatory fish, with smaller fish in the Waterloo Farm ecosystem in South Africa about 360 million years ago.
Environment

A gator-faced fish shaped like a torpedo stalked rivers 360 million years ago

By Laura Baisas

Why scientists are still on the quest to build an artificial heart
Health

Why scientists are still on the quest to build an artificial heart

By Sian E. Harding / MIT Press Reader

Recreations of tiny points found in Grotte Mandrin that were reproduced using the same flint and replicating the same technologies from thousands of years ago. These experimental points were then used as arrowheads and shot by bow to analyze the categories of fractures appearing on these arrowheads and compare them with the scars found on the archeological material.
Science

Archery may have helped humans gain leverage over Neanderthals

By Laura Baisas

An optical image from the Keck-I Telescope superimposed on a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus.
Science

Uranus’s quirks and hidden features have astronomers jazzed about a direct mission

By Briley Lewis

Six faint circular object glow in space. These are images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500-800 million years after the Big Bang.
Science

These 6 galaxies are so huge, they’ve been nicknamed ‘universe breakers’

By Laura Baisas

Several European spruce bark beetles on a dry piece of wood.
Environment

These beetles sniff out fungus-infected trees to find their next target

By Laura Baisas

A 6.3 inch long phallus shaped artifact that was discovered in England, at the Roman fort of Vindolanda.
Science

Scientists think they found a 2,000-year-old dildo in ancient Roman ruins

By Laura Baisas

The icy white south pole of Mars, with red soil all around.
Science

Want to travel to Mars? Here’s how long the trip could take.

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Surrealist digital painting inspired by Dali of flying clocks and chess pieces upside down over sand and the Earth. The motifs symbolize the leap second.
Science

We might soon lose a full second of our lives

By Rahul Rao

Guests at Filmmaker's Trivia Night during the 2021 Tribeca Festival at Battery Park on June 14, 2021 in New York City.
DIY

5 ways to get better at trivia, according to a Jeopardy! contestant

By Jack Izzo

Heat of sun radiating through cold of space
Science

Why is space cold if the sun is hot?

By Donavyn Coffey

Axiom-2 mission astronaut headshots in a row of 4
Science

Private space missions will bring more countries to the ISS

By Jon Kelvey

Norovirus under a microscope. The virus is a gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting, diarrhea, and is highly contagious.
Health

Norovirus is spiking across the United States

By Laura Baisas

An adult humpback whale surfaces above the water in eastern Australia.
Environment

A group of humpback whales is choosing violence

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of a circuit in the form of a human brain.
Science

Engineers finally peeked inside a deep neural network

By Rahul Rao

NASA evolved structure spacecraft part
Technology

NASA is using AI to help design lighter parts

By Andrew Paul

The bow of the RMS Titanic, almost 12,500 feet under the ocean.
Science

Watch never-before-seen footage of the Titanic shipwreck from the 1980s

By Laura Baisas

A large group of red and orange jellyfish floating in blue water.
Health

A jellyfish sting treatment that actually works

By Sara Chodosh

A European hedgehog on a road with a yellow flower.
Environment

Why Danish citizen scientists were on a quest to find the oldest European hedgehog

By Laura Baisas

A mother chimpanzee with her offspring, which she may teach her style of handclasping.
Environment

Popular chimpanzees set hand-holding trends for the whole group

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

screenshot of the monty python silly walk
Science

The Monty Python ‘silly walk’ could replace your gym workout

By Popular Science Team

Studying fighter pilot physiology could help us understand astronaut brains
Health

Studying fighter pilot physiology could help us understand astronaut brains

By Laura Baisas

Singapore’s new plan to fight mosquito-borne diseases: bug-infecting bacteria
Science

Singapore’s new plan to fight mosquito-borne diseases: bug-infecting bacteria

By Marta Zaraska / Undark

A woma pythron, a large, nocturnal species of snake on the ground by a piece of wood.
Environment

Snakes can actually hear really well

By Laura Baisas

An airplane taking off toward the camera at dusk, with lights along the runway and on the front of the plane, against a cloudy reddish sunset.
Technology

Let’s talk about how planes fly

By Rob Verger

An artist’s impression of two theropod species discovered by scientists at the University of Southampton in 2021, Ceratosuchops inferodios and Riparovenator milnerae.
Science

What was going on inside of this spinosaur’s brain?

By Laura Baisas

A Eurasian lynch perches in a fallen tree in a forest.
Environment

The endangered Eurasian lynx might never recover fully in France

By Laura Baisas