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A Labrador and a terrier play with a rope toy.
Environment

How breeding dogs for certain traits may have altered their brains

By Laura Baisas

Rice plants growing
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People in China have been harvesting rice for more than 10,000 years

By Laura Baisas

SpaceX rocket lifting off from launchpad at dawn
Technology

SpaceX’s new Starshield program will supply satellite networks to the military

By Andrew Paul

A team from the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum examines a shipwreck unearthed by hurricanes in Florida.
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Storm erosion brings 200-year-old shipwreck to the surface of a Florida beach

By Laura Baisas

With one snapshot, Apollo 17 transformed our vision of Earth forever
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With one snapshot, Apollo 17 transformed our vision of Earth forever

By Tatyana Woodall

Woolly mammoths in forests in Greenland after eDNA reconstruction. The scene is an illustration.
Environment

Oldest DNA ever sampled paints a lush portrait of a lost Arctic world

By Rahul Rao

Feisty ankylosaurs clubbed each other with their tails
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Feisty ankylosaurs clubbed each other with their tails

By Laura Baisas

The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard
Environment

The last Tasmanian tiger’s remains were finally found—in a cupboard

By Laura Baisas

An artist's illustration of the dust and gas surrounding a newborn star.
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Chile’s Very Large Telescope reveals the productive antics of sibling stars

By Briley Lewis

Brightly colored tropical fish in a coral reef
Environment

To save coral reefs, color the larvae

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of
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A fierce competition will decide James Webb Space Telescope’s next views of the cosmos

By Tatyana Woodall

A man wearing a jacket sneezes into a rissue.
Health

Cold temperatures could make our respiratory systems more vulnerable to infection

By Laura Baisas

The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190
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The tortoise, the myth, the legend: Jonathan turns 190

By Laura Baisas

Array of Australian radio telescope prototypes built in the Outback against a sky showing stars and the Milky Way galaxy
Technology

Construction starts on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will ‘hear’ signals billions of light-years away

By Andrew Paul

This dinosaur dove like a duck
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This dinosaur dove like a duck

By Laura Baisas

For thousands of years, kids have been fascinated with owls
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For thousands of years, kids have been fascinated with owls

By Laura Baisas

Solar flare imaged by NASA and ESA solar orbiter in 2022
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How worried should we be about solar flares and space weather?

By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Japanese woman holding gold Sharp calculator with transistor
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The small, mighty, world-changing transistor turns 75

By Rahul Rao

Plastic bottles and fishing nets and other trash on sea beach
Environment

Plastic microfibers in the Mediterranean Sea are keeping bacteria afloat

By Lauren J. Young

Artist’s impression of Cryptovaranoides when it was alive
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A key to lizard evolution was buried in a museum cupboard for 70 years

By Laura Baisas

The view of a colorful lake and steam from Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Overlook Trail.
Environment

There’s more magma under Yellowstone than we thought—but don’t panic

By Laura Baisas

A SpaceX rocket flies above a Florida swamp in June.
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Trash-eating elephants, a lava landscaper, and 8 more of this year’s best NatGeo photos

By Popular Science Team

traversable wormhole illustration
Technology

Scientists modeled a tiny wormhole on a quantum computer

By Charlotte Hu

EVO ICL lens implanted in the diagram of an eye with yellow, pink, and blue Best of What's New 2022 Health design on right
Technology

The most powerful health innovations of 2022

By Kate Baggaley, Purbita Saha

Toilet paper rolls on a yellow background to represent IBS causes
Health

Gravity could be bringing you down with IBS

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A full moon rises over snowy hills.
Science

Fireballs, bright Mars, and a big moon will dazzle in December’s night sky

By Laura Baisas

The most awesome aerospace innovations of 2022
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The most awesome aerospace innovations of 2022

By Rahul Rao, Rob Verger

Deep Space Network giant NASA antenna at night
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60 years of moonshots, made possible by the Deep Space Network

By Tatyana Woodall

Cluster of new Milky Way stars in hot and cold gas captured in X-ray and infrared by space telescopes
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Young star clusters know when it’s time to stop growing

By Purbita Saha

Daubenton's bat is similar to metal singers
Environment

What bats and metal vocalists have in common

By Laura Baisas

The 100 greatest innovations of 2022
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2022

By Popular Science Team

Chinese space rocket lifting off at night
Technology

China’s astronauts embark on a direct trip to their brand new space station

By Andrew Paul

A jellyfish-like sea creature that's classified as a siphonophore
Technology

What this jellyfish-like sea creature can teach us about underwater vehicles of the future

By Charlotte Hu

The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes
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The newest member of the T. rex family has piercing eyes

By Laura Baisas

Steller's Sea Cow
Environment

Meet the extinct sea cow that cultivated Pacific kelp forests

By Laura Baisas

Mauna Loa lava flow
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The world’s largest active volcano is erupting in Hawaii

By Laura Baisas

Moon closeup of craters by NASA Orion spacecraft
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Orion sends back new images of the moon’s craters, some of which could be home to ice and water

By Laura Baisas

Tiny octopus with clear head that shows off brain
Environment

What human and octopus brains have in common

By Laura Baisas

people walking in front of clock
Technology

The leap second’s time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled

By Harry Guinness

These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real
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These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real

By Laura Baisas

Jezero Crater
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Signs of past chemical reactions detected on Mars

By Laura Baisas

Black hole shooting beam of energy out speed of light and being caught by a space telescope in an illustration. There's an inset showing blue and purple electromagnetic waves,
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Astronomers now know how supermassive black holes blast us with energy

By Rahul Rao

Aftershocks hit Indonesia after deadly 5.6-magnitude earthquake
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Aftershocks hit Indonesia after deadly 5.6-magnitude earthquake

By Laura Baisas

Ancient army ant
Environment

Eyeless army ants chomped their way through Europe millions of years ago

By Laura Baisas

Kimberella fossil
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Oldest evidence of digested plants in a roughly 575-million-year-old creature’s gut

By Laura Baisas

A giant prehistoric salamander
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These pleasantly plump salamanders dominated the Cretaceous period

By Laura Baisas

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in an artist's illustration.
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Ridiculously hot gas giant exoplanet is about to be swallowed by its dying sun

By Briley Lewis

‘Red Robin’ dwarf tomato growing in Veggie hardware at the Kennedy Space Center. Image courtesy of NASA
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Microgravity tomatoes, yogurt bacteria, and plastic eating microbes are headed to the ISS

By Andrew Paul

Tomb of a forgotten queen is one of several new stunning Egyptian discoveries
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Tomb of a forgotten queen is one of several new stunning Egyptian discoveries

By Laura Baisas

Despite pushback, NASA won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope
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Despite pushback, NASA won’t rename the James Webb Space Telescope

By Laura Baisas

NASA Orion spacecraft with moon in backdrop
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Orion will air kiss the moon today during important Artemis exercise

By Purbita Saha

Flickering fireflies pulse to a beat that mathematicians have long been seeking
Environment

Flickering fireflies pulse to a beat that mathematicians have long been seeking

By Raphael Sarfati / The Conversation

a woman with glasses fits an apple airpod pro earbud into her ear
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Your AirPods Pro can act as hearing aids in a pinch

By Lauren J. Young

The solar-powered LightSail 2 spacecraft took one last look at Earth before burning up
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The solar-powered LightSail 2 spacecraft took one last look at Earth before burning up

By Sara Kiley Watson

We’re only 8 years away from stronger El Niño and La Niña events
Environment

We’re only 8 years away from stronger El Niño and La Niña events

By Laura Baisas

Earth from Orion
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A distant Earth and Orion capsule’s ‘moonikin’ are the Artemis mission’s first images

By Laura Baisas

Big ancient turtle
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Gigantic fossils hint at super-sized 7,000-pound sea turtle

By Laura Baisas

The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).
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New JWST image shows a hidden, fiery protostar

By Laura Baisas

A colorful moon with craters.
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Why it’s hard to tell if moon craters are holes or bumps

By Julia Craven

Want to learn about something in space? Crash into it.
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Want to learn about something in space? Crash into it.

By Briley Lewis

This 18-foot python’s last meal was a whole alligator
Environment

This 18-foot python’s last meal was a whole alligator

By Dac Collins / Outdoor Life

Winchcombe meteorite fragment in a purple-gloved hand for chemical analysis
Science

Two meteorite mysteries are helping astronomers investigate the origins of life

By Rahul Rao

a green snake coiled on a branch
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Snakes may not have legs, but they do have two penises

By Popular Science Team

Apollo 15 astronaut on lunar rover in black and white NASA image
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10 incredible lunar missions that paved the way for Artemis

By Ben Guarino, Purbita Saha

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