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the interior of an SUV
Vehicles

How Genesis uses volcanic rock and recycled newspapers in the GV80 SUV

Using basalt melted at super-high temperatures and spun into yarn, the GV80’s interior is unique and green. 

milk glass
Diseases

Why you shouldn’t drink raw milk

A dairy expert explains how pasteurization protects against foodborne illness, including avian flu.

The composition of the iPhone XR front screen display has been used with several color variations, arranged on the table.
Tech Hacks

Turn your old iPhone into a dumb phone

Stop scrolling endlessly with a simpler smartphone.

A studio shot of a heap of Nintendo games shot from above.
Life Skills

Why you should still buy physical copies of video games

What's the fun in keeping a game all to yourself?

Popular Science article about Mount Everest
Science

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

'Will they succeed? They will if they can conquer nature.'

Small Plastic pellets on blue cloth
Animals

Every human testicle contained microplastics in a new study

The toxic pollution really is that pervasive—and invasive.

OpenAI logo and Sam Altman in background on screen.
Social Media

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice that’s totally ‘not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson’

The actor played a sentient chatbot in Sam Altman's favorite movie 'Her.'

Comet above Spain
Solar System

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

The European Space Agency thinks the object was likely a comet.

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

Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth.

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

Supercharged thunderstorms and tornadoes are ravaging the Midwest, driving insurance costs to record highs.

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

To find out the age of dolphins, ask their poop

By adapting a DNA-based age estimation technique, scientists have a new way to figure out the ages of wild dolphins.

three tesla cars in a dealership
Electric Vehicles

Used EVs are getting cheaper. Should you buy one?

OpenAI logo and Sam Altman in background on screen.
AI

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI

The company ended the project less than a year after it started.

Chandler on 'Friends' is known for his sarcasm.
Technology

Neural network trained on ‘Friends’ can recognize sarcasm

Researchers say their new algorithm trained on a database of various TV show clips can detect sarcasm 75% of the time.

#NoMowMay may just be a hashtag.
Science

There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May’

Ecologists don’t agree on what makes for the healthiest lawn. And restoring biodiversity requires more than doing less.

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Popular Science Videos

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

The question remains: Do you want to see my face?

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown
AI

Neuralink seeks its next brain implant volunteer

The first patient's device partially 'retracted' shortly after surgery.

Eros in Stereo
Mars

Mars might have an asteroid problem

The red planet could see two-and-a-half times more close encounters with asteroids than Earth.

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

Long-lost Nile branch may explain landlocked pyramids

The proposed 'Ahramat' branch may have aided construction and trade.

canola field
Space

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