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small delicate, partially translucent mushrooms growing on a log
Science

This South Pacific island could help us understand how fungi evolve

By Lauren J. Young

Incense burning with ancient smells in front of a Buddhist temple
Science

Can ancient smells help us time travel through human history?

By Ella Weaver

an illustration showing several badges and awards that say "brilliant 10 awards"
Science

Nominations are open for PopSci’s Brilliant 10 awards

By Rachel Feltman

Helium that escapes from Earth into space might hint at how the planet formed.
Science

A rare gas is leaking from Earth’s core. Could it be a clue to the planet’s creation?

By Leto Sapunar

a man wearing sunglasses and a space suit gives a thumbs up after landing back on earth
Science

After 355 days in space, an American astronaut rides home on a Russian capsule

By Tatyana Woodall

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has captured the farthest star yet.
Science

Hubble spies the most distant star ever found

By Hannah Seo

a gray rocky surface of a planet with blue highlighted regions showing potential past volcanic activity
Science

Pluto’s icy volcanoes may have once belched ‘antifreeze lava’

By Kate Baggaley

A red ant against a white background
Environment

A killer fungus could help the US South fight back against insatiable ants

By Philip Kiefer

a female astronaut on the international space station takes a picture of section of the station with equipment
Science

What an extraterrestrial archaeological dig could tell us about space culture

By Tatyana Woodall

Two mid-sized brown owls sitting on a branch in daylight with horses, rhinos, and soaring birds in the background in an illustration
Environment

Meet the ancient owl that embraced daylight

By Purbita Saha

Wooden lacquer-painted tray by Mexican artist José Manuel de la Cerda depicting a war scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Science

Classic Mexican art stood the test of time with the help of this secret ingredient

By Maggie Galloway

An hypothetical illustration of society running on garbage.
Science

Is trash a form of renewable energy?

By Sara Kiley Watson

a close up profile of a vampire bat
Environment

How vampire bats evolved to get the most out of their bloody diets

By Kate Baggaley

Researcher making tiny ball of yeast-less pizza dough.
Health

Scientists create a small, allegedly delicious piece of yeast-free pizza dough

By Sara Kiley Watson

two astronauts in the international space station prepare pizza
Science

Sorry, you can’t eat these popular foods on the International Space Station

By Tatyana Woodall

Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus with clear tiger stripes in a blue colorized image from the Cassini space probe
Science

Here’s why Saturn’s ‘ocean moon’ is constantly spewing liquid into space

By Philip Kiefer

Inside the hotly contested creation of ‘ice X’
Science

Inside the hotly contested creation of ‘ice X’

By Shi En Kim

An illustration of science's dirtiest jobs.
Science

10 of science’s dirtiest jobs

By Leigh Cowart

Spinosaurus bones hint that the spiny dinosaurs enjoyed water sports
Science

Spinosaurus bones hint that the spiny dinosaurs enjoyed water sports

By Kate Baggaley

March 2022 wildfires over Texas in a satellite map
Environment

What’s behind the unusual wildfires burning through Texas

By Philip Kiefer

Proxima b, one of 5,000 confirmed exoplanets.
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NASA’s official exoplanet tally has passed 5,000 worlds

By Hannah Seo

Transgenic Romaine lettuce
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Why space lettuce could be the pharmacy astronauts need

By Leto Sapunar

Orange NASA SLS rocket at launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a brown banner that says "we are going"
Science

In pictures: NASA’s powerful moonshot rocket debuts at Kennedy Space Center

By Purbita Saha

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Science

Why ocean researchers want to create a global library of undersea sounds

By Charlotte Hu

Rare platinum ore nugget on a black background
Science

Manipulating atomic motion could make metals stronger and bendier

By Rahul Rao

Glowing red sphere of light around a black hole in a NASA simulation
Science

Giant black holes and dark matter may share a hot origin story

By Leto Sapunar

A surreal illustration of a smart home in the future.
Science

‘Home@Heart,’ a short story from an alternate future

By Sameem Siddiqui

A couple dozen thumbnail-sized squares of chocolate, each with blotches and streaks of vivid rainbow colors.
DIY

Turn ordinary chocolate into a glimmering, iridescent treat

By Janelle Shane

An abstract illustration of a person remembering a tomato.
Science

‘The Memory of Tomatoes,’ a short story from an alternate future

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Form-fitting spacesuit in white on a dusty orange background
Science

Future astronauts and space tourists could rock 3D printed ‘second skin’

By Tatyana Woodall

Surrealist illustration of data flowing out of a computer.
Science

‘Shared Data,’ a short story from an alternate future

By Malka Older

quantum entangled system will be hosted on ISS
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NASA is launching a new quantum entanglement experiment in space

By Charlotte Hu

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024
Science

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024

By Leto Sapunar

Outside of Kyiv maternity hospital with sandbags in windows due to Russian airstrikes on Ukraine
Health

Russian bombing of a Ukrainian hospital could violate the Geneva Convention

By Hannah Seo

A mountaintop covered in green grass and surrounded by stone structures with staircases.
Science

The ancient Mexican city of Monte Albán thrived with public works, not kings

By Philip Kiefer

A galloping horse.
Environment

Ancient sea creatures pioneered the gallop

By Kate Baggaley

an aerial view of an atomic garden
Science

Nuclear war inspired peacetime ‘gamma gardens’ for growing mutant plants

By Popular Science Team

Prehistoric vampire squid swimming in the Paleozoic ocean in an illustration
Science

Slap another cephalopod on the vampire squid’s family tree

By Lauren J. Young

Mineralized deposit that looks like a spiky flower in the red Mars soil
Science

What is a ‘Martian flower’?

By Purbita Saha

10 Obscure-But-Beautiful Celestial Objects to Spy in the Night Sky
Science

10 Obscure-But-Beautiful Celestial Objects to Spy in the Night Sky

By Celestron

Proteus underwater lab design mockup
Science

Jacques Cousteau’s grandson is building a network of ocean floor research stations 

By Charlotte Hu

Travel to another galaxy with this vibrant 3D map of the cosmos
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Travel to another galaxy with this vibrant 3D map of the cosmos

By Leto Sapunar

An orange starfish on a rock.
Science

Classifying invertebrates is hard. Butts can help.

By Philip Kiefer

Red Tesla Roadster being loaded into a rocket capsule during Elon Musk's SpaceX launch in 2018
Science

What would happen to a Tesla in space?

By Peter Holderith / The Drive

San Andreas fault's Soda Lake.
Science

Earthquake models get a big shakeup with clues buried in the San Andreas fault

By Rahul Rao

Ukrainian child receives treatment for wounds from Russian attacks.
Health

Russian attacks are forcing Ukraine’s hospitals underground

By Hannah Seo

three tall rockets in front of a museum park
Science

Ukraine was about to revive its space program. Then Russia invaded.

By Tatyana Woodall

a kilonova, a cosmic event between two neutron stars showing the collision in the middle and purple blue emissions coming off of it
Science

This kilonova could have created the first-ever extragalactic ‘sonic boom’

By Maggie Galloway

Craters on the dark side of the moon from a flyby image
Science

Why NASA’s pumped to watch a rocket smash into the moon

By Paul Hayne / The Conversation

Tyrannosaurus rex fossil at Field Museum lobby
Science

Is T. rex really three royal species? Paleontologists cast doubt over new claims.

By Shi En Kim

Silver pocket watch being swung on a chain on a black background to symbolize a time crystal
Science

Time crystals just got a little easier to make

By Rahul Rao

The X-57 aircraft during testing in 2020.
Science

NASA’s experimental electric plane could take to the skies this year

By Tatyana Woodall

birds flying across the moon at night
Environment

A moon-watching robot can demystify what migrating birds do at night

By Charlotte Hu

The ADMX experiment, used to look for axions.
Science

Meet the mysterious particle that’s the dark horse in dark matter

By Leto Sapunar

four cubes with copper wires wrapped around their edges that are connected electromagnetically
Science

These shape-shifting robots could make for great furniture in space

By Tatyana Woodall

a dinosaur footprint in rock
Science

It was probably springtime when an asteroid did the dinosaurs in

By Kate Baggaley

Our brains may remain active before, and in the moments after, death.
Health

What the recording of a dying human brain could tell us

By Hannah Seo

a white ghostly outline of the international space station floating in the ocean
Science

There’s a lot we don’t know about the International Space Station’s ocean grave

By Tatyana Woodall

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Science

PopSci’s spring issue has all the dirt

By Corinne Iozzio

a toilet floating in space
Science

The inside scoop on Apollo 10’s infamous floating turd

By Popular Science Team

Three galaxies forming a gassy swirl in a Hubble Space Telescope image
Science

See Hubble’s captures of real-life star wars

By Purbita Saha

the Mars Ascent Vehicle
Science

This miniature rocket could be the first NASA craft launched from Mars

By Casey Crownhart

Orange Jelly Belly beans arranged in rows for molding at the factory in Fairfield, California
Technology

Inside the technicolor factory where Jelly Belly makes its beans

By Corinne Iozzio

E.O. Wilson in his Harvard evolutionary biology office in a black and white photo
Science

A closer look at E.O. Wilson’s archives reveals support for racist research

By Michael Schulson/Undark

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