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Fiver different types of paper cups sitting are sitting on a table. Some have eco-friendly labeling and one warns of plastic chemical leaching. Paper cups are replacing plastic cups on the market, but paper cups can also be toxic to living organisms, shows a new study from the University of Gothenburg.

Paper cups still use plastic—and it’s a problem for the planet

By Laura Baisas

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Best of What's New

The 50 greatest innovations of 2024

By Popular Science Team

Spotted lanternfly adult on leaf

This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

By Charlotte Hu

Person with blond hair and white nail polish scratching mosquito bites that could carry viruses

These mosquito-borne viruses have a bizarre way of making you smell sweeter to their minions

By Kate Baggaley

white fluffy clouds on blue sky

NASA needs your help identifying clouds

By Alisha McDarris

bat in the dark

Can niche lives of bats help them avoid the white-nose syndrome?

By Trina Moyles / Hakai Magazine

An artist's illustration of an early lamprey's teeth and sucker. The Jurassic lampreys Yanliaomyzon had a feeding apparatus that surprisingly resembles that of the pouched lampreys. It foreshadows the ancestral flesh-eating habit of present day. lampreys.

Giant prehistoric lamprey likely sucked blood—and ate flesh

By Laura Baisas

For many people, bed bugs are becoming a fact of life again.

Getting rid of bed bugs is trickier than ever

By Ute Eberle / Knowable Magazine

PAMPORE, INDIA - NOVEMBER 8, 2024: A Kashmiri farmer showing saffron flowers in a field during the saffron harvest season in Pampore. Saffron is a spice derived from the ‘crocus sativus’ flower and is harvested once a year from October 21 to mid-November. The world's most expensive spice-Kashmiri saffron, often referred to as "Red Gold" sells for more than 10,000 US dollars per kilogram.

How Plants Are Responding to a Warming World — And Why It Matters

By Theresa M. Crimmins / MIT Press Reader

3D rendering of all ~140k neurons in the fruit fly brain.

Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time

An aedes aegypti mosquito.

The first US trial to release GMO mosquitoes just ended. Here’s how it went.

icebergs melting

Spending Christmas with ‘Dr. Doom’

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist

Illustration of metal nanomaterial healing cracks

Scientists accidentally capture metals ‘healing’ themselves

Oxford malaria vaccine application kit

Ghana is the first country to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine

By Jamie Helmick

Scientist holding syringe next to wheeled robot with biological sensor

This robot gets its super smelling power from locust antennae

Red pieces of CRISPR-edited wood against the paler natural type.

Genetically modified trees could mean more sustainable wood

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

A person tweezing their own armpit hair.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Ancient Romans tweezed their armpits until they screamed

By Popular Science Team

An atmospheric, long-exposure photograph of the New York City skyline as seen from across a river. In the foreground, dozens of weathered wooden pilings from an old pier protrude from the smooth, glass-like water, leading the eye toward the dense cluster of skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan. The sky is filled with heavy, dark, brooding clouds, and the image has a desaturated, somber color palette with hints of autumn foliage on the right bank.

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Nature could take over an abandoned NYC surprisingly quickly

By Popular Science Team

Two carpet beetles on a white flower.

Ancient beetles had a taste for dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

Fungus gnat on a white flower petal

Flies evolved before dinosaurs—and survived an apocalyptic world after the Permian extinction

By Sara Kiley Watson

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Close up of braces on Hispanic boy's teeth. He's wearing a blue collared shirt and there's light streaming in behind him. All we see is the bottom of his nose and chin.

Ancient humans didn’t need braces. So why do we?

By Popular Science Team

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Watch The Weather Channel like its 1999 with the official RetroCast

Waterdrop P800 filter

The Waterdrop G3P800 water filter system provides clean, filtered water without a wait

By Stan Horaczek

Probable examples of Indigenous dice tools

The first gamblers were Ice Age women on the Great Plains