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Panels A, B, and C each show stereographic image pairs of the asteroid Dinkinesh taken by the L’LORRI Instrument aboard NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft. The images were taken in the minutes around closest approach on November 1, 2023. The yellow and rose dots indicate the trough and ridge features, respectively. These images have been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Panel D shows a side view of Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam taken a few minutes after closest approach.
NASA

The odd moon orbiting a ‘Dinky’ asteroid is actually two moons fused together

By Laura Baisas

Farmer finds hunk of charred space debris, potentially from a SpaceX rocket
Science

Farmer finds hunk of charred space debris, potentially from a SpaceX rocket

By Harri Weber

a human skull on a dark background with E270 printed on it
Archaeology

4,000 year-old Egyptian skulls show attempts at brain surgery to treat cancer

By Laura Baisas

coral polyps before spawning
Animals

Scientists are studying the mysterious sex lives of coral

By Laura Baisas

a woman listens to music with headphones on over hear ear
Biology

How our brains differentiate music and speech

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of EarthCARE satellite scanning clouds above Earth
Climate Change

The ‘White Dragon’ satellite will keep watch over our clouds

By Andrew Paul

The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages
Health

The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages

By Bill Gourgey

Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas panhandle
Diseases

Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas panhandle

By Amy Maxmen / KFF Health News

red lava rushes into the Pacific Ocean, with smoke and steam rising
Science

Buildup of gas caused Kīlauea to erupt like a stomp-rocket

By Laura Baisas

A spherical collection of stars which fills the whole view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the center, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black
Deep Space

The 8 most extraordinary JWST images of 2024, so far

By Popular Science Team

This noble necklace worm, laden with eggs, will eventually release her developed larvae into the water column as plankton.
Conservation

Stunning images offer a peek into the ocean’s microscopic baby boom

Text by Kelly Fretwell and Adrienne Mason / Hakai Magazine, Photos by Hakai Institute

Universe’s oldest known stars found in Milky Way’s ‘halo’
Science

Universe’s oldest known stars found in Milky Way’s ‘halo’

By Laura Baisas

a green stick insect blending into a green plant
Animals

Chance or pattern? Stick insects show repeatable evolution in action

By Laura Baisas

CBD for dogs
Animals

Fit for a dog? The latest science on CBD for pets

By Ula Chrobak / Knowable Magazine

Carrion crow (Corvus corone) perched on wooden fence post and calling. (Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Animals

Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study

By Lauren Leffer

an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star
Deep Space

Newly discovered exoplanet may be habitable (or a Venus-like hellscape)

By Laura Baisas

a pink and red galaxy (left). an illustration of the cylindrical euclid space telescope (right)
Science

See 5 dazzling new images from Euclid, the ‘dark universe detective’

By Laura Baisas

A proboscis monkey in a mangrove conservation forest in Tarakan, North Borneo, Indonesia. It is light brown in color with a very large, round, droopy, and prominent nose.
Animals

These monkeys have giant noses for exactly the reason you think

By Laura Baisas

mri scan of the brain
AI

A new neural implant can translate brain activity in two languages

By Andrew Paul

Fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection (seen in orange/red) in the Pawlowsky glands.
Biology

Body lice may be pretty good spreading bubonic plague

By Laura Baisas

This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.
Black Holes

Astronomers use wobbly star stuff to measure a supermassive black hole’s spin

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin.
Energy

Europe’s first Mars rover will use nuclear-powered heaters

By Andrew Paul

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel
International Space Station

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

By Briley Lewis

closeup of bumblebee
Animals

How scientists accidentally found out that some bees can hibernate underwater

By Popular Science Team

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along
Animals

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along

By Harri Weber

DNA test tube and cotton swab wipe test
Biology

Law enforcement collected over 1.5 million people’s DNA since 2020

By Andrew Paul

A fossilized dinosaur skin specimen under natural light (upper half) and ultraviolet light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin.
Biology

Rare skin fossil sheds new light on dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of the rust-colored Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. Thawing permafrost is exposing minerals to weathering, increasing the acidity of the water, which releases metals like iron, zinc, and copper.
Climate Change

Why are Alaska’s rivers turning orange?

By Laura Baisas

milk glass
Diseases

Why you shouldn’t drink raw milk

By Kerry E. Kaylegian / The Conversation

Popular Science article about Mount Everest
Science

May 1924: George Mallory’s tragic quest to conquer Everest

Bill Gourgey, Archive Story by Raymond J. Brown Bill Gourgey

Small Plastic pellets on blue cloth
Animals

Every human testicle contained microplastics in a new study

By Andrew Paul

Comet above Spain
Internet

Watch a meteor’s incredible light show above Spain and Portugal

By Andrew Paul

Riding atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test mission in November 2021.
Private Space Flight

A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers

By Theo Nicitopoulos / Undark

The so-called 'severe-convective storms' are large and powerful thunderstorms that form and disappear within a few hours or days, often spinning off hail storms and tornadoes as they shoot across the flat expanses of the central United States.
Environment

How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry

By Jake Bittle/Grist

To find out the age of dolphins, ask their poop
Animals

To find out the age of dolphins, ask their poop

By Jason Bittel / Hakai Magazine

#NoMowMay may just be a hashtag.
Environment

There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May’

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

cover of popular science magazine with video phone story on background of old phones
Popular Science Videos

Move over, Facetime: We’re calling on a 1987 Mitsubishi VisiTel videophone

By Popular Science Team, Video by Kevin Lieber

Eros in Stereo
Mars

Mars might have an asteroid problem

By Briley Lewis

The Red Pyramid at the Dahshur necropolis, constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.
Archaeology

Long-lost Nile branch may explain landlocked pyramids

By Andrew Paul

canola field
Science

Farmer finds hunk of charred space debris, potentially from a SpaceX rocket

By Harri Weber

Concept art of lunar base with floating train path alongside astronauts
Engineering

Wild NASA proposal envisions magnetic hover trains on the moon

By Andrew Paul

little baby
Animals

Making babies may take 10 times more energy than we thought

By Lauren Leffer

Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
Animals

Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?

By Jesse Nichols / Grist

An illustration of what exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like. It is also a hot and puffy gas giant like exoplanet WASP 193b.
Deep Space

A massive cotton candy-like exoplanet stumps astronomers

By Laura Baisas

an orangutan sits in the forest with its mouth open wide, showing its teeth
Animals

Orangutans’ distinct yells decoded with help from AI

By Laura Baisas

wasp uses viruses
Animals

The wasps that turned viruses into tiny biological weapons

By Nala Rogers / Knowable Magazine

two mantis shrimp punching one another
Animals

Bullet-fast mantis shrimp punches caught by super-speed cameras

By Laura Baisas

rock art depicting a human hunting various animals
Biology

How sweat and stamina helped make humans exceptional runners–and hunters

By Laura Baisas

How Viking-age hunters took down the biggest animal on Earth
Animals

How Viking-age hunters took down the biggest animal on Earth

By Andrew Chapman / Hakai Magazine

sunscreen on back
Health

Why Americans aren’t getting better sunscreens this summer

By Michael Scaturro / KFF Health News

amphibian parents
Animals

The tender art of tadpole parenting

By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine

green and purple aurora lights
Science

Spectacular aurora photos: Skies dazzle in vivid colors around the world

By Popular Science Team

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes
Animals

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes

By Tom Hawking

The untold story of the first U.S.-based nuclear spy, and how he got away with it
Science

The untold story of the first U.S.-based nuclear spy, and how he got away with it

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a volcano spews firey lava over molten rock and snow
Science

‘Buoyant’ magma offers clues about the power of volcanoes

By Laura Baisas

In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in
Private Space Flight

In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

Six layers of excitatory neurons colored by depth - the human brain
Science

See the most detailed map of human brain matter ever created

By Lauren Leffer

Opal Sandy
Health

Gene therapy breakthrough allows toddler born deaf to hear

By Tom Hawking

A male African elephant named Doma and a female named Kariba greet one another. Doma touches Kariba´s temporal gland while flapping his ears and Kariba holds her ears spread.
Animals

Expressive elephants use gestures and vocal cues to communicate

By Laura Baisas

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS
Deep Space

How ‘safe mode’ protects space telescopes like Hubble and TESS

By Briley Lewis

From toxic fungus to soy sauce superstar
Health

From toxic fungus to soy sauce superstar

By Rachel Ehrenberg / Knowable Magazine

These snakes play dead, bleed, and poop to avoid being eaten
Animals

These snakes play dead, bleed, and poop to avoid being eaten

By Harri Weber

Ultrasonic cold brew setup using espresso maker and transducer
Internet

Blasting coffee grounds with ultrasonic waves creates a 60-second cold brew

By Andrew Paul

two adult green-rumped parrots with three nestlings behind them with their mouths open waiting for food
Animals

Why these parrots sometimes kill each other’s chicks

By Laura Baisas

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