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Getting minor panic attacks for these crows

Rain, drought, and temperatures broke records in locales nationwide

Technology that matches faces to names can already single out criminals. What happens when it can identify anyone?

Change is (usually, sometimes) the only constant.

Staff Sergeant James Sides lost his right arm in an IED explosion in Afghanistan. Now he's the first patient in an FDA trial testing an implantable, muscle-connected controller for prosthetics.

License plate-reading cameras in London allowed civil engineers to make some amazing calculations for commuters.

Researchers had assumed all humans were just bad at describing odors, but it turns out that's a cultural problem, not a biological one.

Can software distill mayhem into a database?

The human brain won't be surpassed by computers any time soon.

It's as if eating an undercooked hamburger could transform a human hardcore partier into a hermit.

Drive more than 500 miles on two gallons of fuel

India celebrates three years since its last recorded polio case today, marking an anniversary that could mean the disease is no longer endemic to Southeast Asia.

There were rumors that the African tigerfish could catch and eat flying birds, but it hadn't been proven until now.

Prolonged exposure to high concentrations of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol can cause headaches, eye and skin irritation, and difficulty breathing.

The skeleton represents "perhaps the best-preserved remains of an ancient human uncovered in the past 40 years."

Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general first declared that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Popular Science readers could have known that was coming.