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An aerial view of a flooded area, with trees and power lines visible.
Weather

A very strong El Niño may be approaching. Here’s what it could mean for the world’s weather.

Get ready to batten down the hatches, maybe.

two turkey chicks in a box with a feather duster as a stand-in for its mother
Birds

Orphaned baby turkeys think a feather duster is their mom

‘It’s safety, it’s warmth. And that really does help with these animals in rehabilitation.’

Tick in the grass
Projects

How to keep ticks out of your yard

Skip the essential oils.

Weber pellet grill, gas grill, and flat top on a grass background.
Home

Weber’s summer sale drops gas grills, pellet smokers, flat tops, and more to their lowest prices of the season

Whether you're smashing burgers, smoking a brisket, or just grilling up some dogs, every kind of outdoor cooker is on sale at Weber's site right now.

Aerial photo of Waymo self-driving taxi on street in San Francisco
Self Driving

Police can’t find shoplifter who fled in self-driving Waymo

San Francisco cops remain stumped 6 months after the crime.

A caucasian young woman with a blue backpack looking for her seat in the airplain. Waiting in the row
Aviation

The fastest way to board an airplane, according to science

Better, faster boarding methods exist, so why don’t we use them? 

Bicentennial Parade, 1976. (Photo by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Photography

13 incredible photos of America’s 1976 bicentennial celebration

From massive firework displays to grocery store banners.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Via the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, the same background galaxy is multiply imaged four times and the white square shows the most magnified image which was studied by Newman and colleagues using the NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph onboard JWST. The data measures the velocity for each portion of the image within the white square. The top bar shows an angular scale of 5 arcsec. Credit: NASA/JWST
Black Holes

JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth

It's the farthest object of its kind ever seen by astronomers.

a moon, poop emoji, plant emoji
Engineering

NASA wastewater system will turn human poop into plant food

University of North Dakota grad students will test the system that's destined for the moon.

an aerial view of a lake in scotland with a human made island visible underneath the water
Archaeology

Scotland’s ancient human-made islands are dripping with secrets

Crannogs may have been built by the country's early inhabitants some 4,000 years ago.

Bowhead whale family swimming together in calm blue ocean water, Mother cares calf. Aerial view pod of bowhead whale spouting hug play. Whale watching of migrate Baleen whales South Africa. Shark
Whales

The Cold War’s accidental whale observatory

Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans.

Blanket fort inside basketball gym
Engineering

World’s largest blanket fort built at Las Vegas community center

The 14,103-square-foot engineering marvel and Guinness world record holder filled a basketball court.

The new microraptor dinosaur Jian changmaensis (left) attacks the early bird Gansus yumenensis (right) in what is now the Changma Basin of northwestern China approximately 120 million years ago. Credits: illustration by Lewis LaRosa, colorized by Jão Canola.
Evolution

Velociraptor’s cousin flew like a flying squirrel

Four 'wings' helped the crow-sized avian dinosaur glide.

two large eaglets in a nest at sunrise
Birds

Eaglets Sandy and Luna spend their first night alone on the nest

But don’t worry, mama Jackie slept not too far away.

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Gear

Popular Science Proven: How our editors choose products worth your money

We test hundreds of products a year here in the PopSci Goods lab and only the ones that truly deliver earn the right to wear the Proven badge.

Drone view of Stonehenge and Wiltshire Countryside in England, UK. The stone circle dates to 3000 BC and is one of the best known ancient wonders of the world and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Archaeology

Humans really did move Stonehenge’s six-ton centerpiece

Melting ice age glaciers could't have moved Altar Stone alone.

an illustration of a large scorpion standing on a marsh
Wildlife

World’s biggest scorpions were the size of baseball bats

‘Praearcturus gigas’ stalked present-day England and Wales 415 million years ago.

a white haired dog, looking up, with grass in his teeth, laying down on a lawn.
Cats

Why your dog eats grass

It's not because they're sick—probably.

Pancreatic cancer cells. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of pancreatic cancer cells. The cells are joined by a cytoplasmic bridge. The irregular shape of the cells, the cellular projections and blebs (nodules) are typical of cancer cells. Pancreatic cancer often causes no symptoms until it is well established and untreatable.
Cancer

Breakthrough drug nearly doubles survival with advanced pancreatic cancer

An oncologist explains how daraxonrasib overcame an ‘undruggable’ disease.

Hexclad pans against a universe background on sale during the Summer Sale
Home

HexClad just dropped its summer sale with site-wide discounts on everything it makes (including pots and pans)

Grab a single new frying pan or an entire set of cookware for the lowest prices of the year so far. The deals also include knives, utensils, and more.