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Greenland’s isolated ‘Last Ice Area’ is vanishing

Greenland’s isolated ‘Last Ice Area’ is vanishing

By Avery Schuyler Nunn / Grist

Volcano belching lava and gas above ocean to represent Great Oxygenation Event

Geologists are searching for when the Earth took its first breath

Images from the March 1954 issue of Popular Science.

From the archives: The promising new world of solar power—in the 1950s

By Bill Gourgey

The moon is pockmarked with craters, including holes made by rockets.

Lunar soil could help us make oxygen in space

By Leto Sapunar

A pile of food scraps and compost materials.

Drug-resistant fungus could be lurking in your compost, but you can reduce the risk

quantum computer dilution fridge

In photos: Journey to the center of a quantum computer

By Charlotte Hu

An LED grow light illuminating a plant's leaf and turning it a shade of purple.

Yes, you can overuse grow lights on indoor plants

By Ellen Airhart

Ukraine’s Dnieper River

Ancient rocks hold the story of Earth’s first breath of oxygen

person holding bouquet of peonies

How to make cut flowers last longer

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

San Joaquin Delta in California

Inside the ambitious plan to restore peat wetlands in California

By Katherine Ellison / Hothouse

Meet the world’s newest carnivorous plant

Meet the world’s newest carnivorous plant

By Kate Baggaley

Wheat farm and blue sky

Understanding plant biological clocks could boost future agriculture

By Sara Kiley Watson

A full moon against an amber sky with foliage brush in the foreground.

Enjoy breathing oxygen? Thank the moon.

By Charlie Wood

A lineup of the best grow lights on a plain background

The best grow lights

By Sarah Horaczek

Why forests in the Andes are crucial to fighting climate change

Why forests in the Andes are crucial to fighting climate change

By Ellie Shechet

a decapitated slug still alive

The process sea slugs use to regrow severed body parts is surprisingly common

fall leaves on ground

Climate change is affecting fall foliage, but not in the way you think

Cracked cap bolete mushroom foraged in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City

An urban cemetery is a surprising sanctuary for fantastic fungi

By Lauren Leffer

The Best Indoor Herb Gardens

The best indoor herb gardens

By Timothy Dale

a forest at night

Nights are warming faster than days. Here’s what that means for the planet.

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One of Jackie and Shadow’s chicks accidentally left the nest

By Popular Science Team

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16 gorgeous images from the 1839 Awards’ Color Photography Contest

By Popular Science Team

Beautiful white young woman smelling a pink flower

When the ability to smell goes away

By Victoria Clayton / Knowable Magazine

a group of bison in a forest fight against a pack of wolves

Watch bison shield their baby from a rare wolf attack in Poland

By Sara Hashemi