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Bidet in a bathroom with a black tile floor
Sustainability

Are bidets really better for the planet than toilet paper?

For a cleaner environment, practice proper bidet-iquette.

scientist injecting turkey
Life Skills

Thirteen science-backed ways to improve your Thanksgiving

Science up an amazing meal, entertain guests, and stay safe and sane.

Meteors May Have Brought Vitamin B To Earth
NASA

Meteors May Have Brought Vitamin B To Earth

A supplement from space

Extreme Science: Town On Fire
Environment

Extreme Science: Town On Fire

What we can learn from a blaze that's still burning after half a century

Neutron Radiograph
Space

Confirmed: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Was Made From Meteorites

Barraging ancient beads with tests tells archaeologists that jewelry came from space-rocks--and that iron-working was an older job than we thought.

New Map Shows The Oldest Light In Our Universe
Deep Space

New Map Shows The Oldest Light In Our Universe

Also, the universe's age has now been measured at 13.8 billion years old.

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver
Projects

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver

PopSci readers made their own DIY ice orbs.

What We Now Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor
Space

What We Now Know About The Chelyabinsk Meteor

A set of newly released papers reconstruct the fireball's impact.

A Mac laptop on a wooden table with Google Docs open in suggestion mode.
Tech Hacks

The greatest Google Docs shortcut you’re probably not using

A game-changer.

A peregrine falcon.
Birds

Peregrine falcons have natural eye makeup for a pretty fierce reason

Citizen-scientists helped confirm the feathery theory behind the markings.

Hands holding slime with crumbs over a keyboard
Life Skills

This DIY slime can clean the grossest parts of your home and car

A perfectly valid reason for adults to make slime.

honey bees swarming
Bees

Temperature tells honey bees what time it is

Bees have surprisingly complex internal clocks.

Player in pinstripes holding two baseballs
Physics

How sticky balls give major league pitchers an advantage

The science behind the spin, explained.

A human hand holds a common weed called a thale cress plant.
Science

One of the most studied plants in the world can grow an extra organ

It took 13 years to confirm the weird appendage wasn’t a genetic anomaly.

Drones revealed the intricate social lives of these killer whales
Whales

Drones revealed the intricate social lives of these killer whales

Studying social relationships among animals is important to fully understanding them.

DARPA’s Gremlin drones could be reloaded while airborne
Air Force

DARPA’s Gremlin drones could be reloaded while airborne

Catching a drone in the sky with another aircraft is tricky, but the military is trying again this fall.

Inside The Largest Simulation Of The Universe Ever Created
Space

Inside The Largest Simulation Of The Universe Ever Created

A giant supercomputer is making massively detailed models of the cosmos.

Looking for the Beginning of Time
Technology

Looking for the Beginning of Time

The latest -- and final -- upgrade to Hubble will study the origins of the universe

“There Is No Such Thing As Time”
Science

“There Is No Such Thing As Time”

Astrophysicist Adam Frank's new book mixes cosmology with humanity. How does our understanding of the universe and cosmic time inform our daily lives? Especially if time is an illusion?

A snoozing little puppy.
Dogs

Puppies are born ready to communicate with people

We have pups at "hello."