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These videos will make you smile.

Not necessarily harmful! But just so you know.

Dreamland might not require so much imagination after all.

People who enjoy being cruel are scarily prevalent, new research says.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are in! Here are the winners of the strangest science awards of the year.

The annual celebration of the year's silliest science starts at 5:40 p.m.

Dogs will interact with social machines. But will dogs assist the robots in taking over the world?

Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: we have a winner!

After tallying thousands of votes, the Ugly Animal Preservation Society has a new mascot.

BARF

Three myths your teachers told you about how your brain learns, debunked

Gross, but great for minimally invasive surgery.

Quiet scans for everyone!

In the wild, male apes can plan ahead where they'll be going, and they keep their female friends apprised.

In Kenya, two new varieties of wheat are resistant to a fungus that defeated even Norman Borlaug's resistant plants.

As the international community debates what should be done with Syria's chemical weapons program, here is a look at what chemical weapons are, and what it takes to safely dispose of them.

We have a "reminiscence bump" for the music our parents liked in their 20s--which they probably played around the house when we were kids.

Sufferers of the "Truman Show" syndrome imagine a world where everyone is watching them. And they're just barely wrong.