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mathematicians
Science

What does math look like to mathematicians?

By Ben Orlin

Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn’t cleanse your body.
Health

Sorry, hot yoga fans. Sweating doesn’t cleanse your body.

By Mara Altman

Binder clips
DIY

12 tips for organizing your work space

By Gareth Branwyn

stack of green books
Environment

18 water-themed books to dive into this month

By Mary Beth Griggs

8 books to read on your beach vacation
Gear

8 books to read on your beach vacation

By Popular Science Team

stack of green books
Science

How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library

By Jakob Povl Holck and Kaare Lund Rasmussen/The Conversation

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.
Science

Looking for a book? Try these tales of strange brains, ancient whales, and Hamilton’s forgotten doctor.

By Mary Beth Griggs

New science books to read this weekend
Science

New science books to read this weekend

By Mary Beth Griggs

From tornadoes to farts: Eight science books to check out this month
Science

From tornadoes to farts: Eight science books to check out this month

By Mary Beth Griggs

Five new science books you should read this month
Science

Five new science books you should read this month

By Mary Beth Griggs

Star Trek, James Bond, and the trip from science fiction to science fact
Science

Star Trek, James Bond, and the trip from science fiction to science fact

By Andy McElfresh

‘Speed reading’ isn’t real, but you can still train yourself to read faster
DIY

‘Speed reading’ isn’t real, but you can still train yourself to read faster

By Eleanor Cummins

Here’s what Popular Science editors are reading right now
Gear

Here’s what Popular Science editors are reading right now

By Billy Cadden

How the deadly worldwide pandemic, the Spanish Flu, got its name
Health

How the deadly worldwide pandemic, the Spanish Flu, got its name

By Laura Spinney

Books to give kids who love science
Gear

Books to give kids who love science

By Mary Beth Griggs

What happened when a ship packed with six million pounds of explosives went up in flames
Technology

What happened when a ship packed with six million pounds of explosives went up in flames

By By: John U. Bacon

Praying on Apollo
Science

These Really Rare Apollo Images Put the Program in a New Light

By Amy Shira Teitel

Buildings of the future might be constructed by swarms of robots
Technology

Buildings of the future might be constructed by swarms of robots

By Zach and Kelly Weinersmith

This is the absolute grossest thing about living in space
Science

This is the absolute grossest thing about living in space

By Tim Peake

Longhorn beetle
Environment

These are the most beautiful pictures of bugs you will ever see

By Mary Beth Griggs

These creatures are smart, playful, and incredibly alien
Environment

These creatures are smart, playful, and incredibly alien

By Sy Montgomery

Meet the man fighting to save our country’s rarest chickens
Environment

Meet the man fighting to save our country’s rarest chickens

By Maryn McKenna

How to publish your own ebook
DIY

How to publish your own ebook

By David Nield

FedEx has some pretty intense plans to get through any potential disaster
Science

FedEx has some pretty intense plans to get through any potential disaster

By Kathryn Miles

Charles Dickens’s belief in spontaneous combustion sparked Victorian London’s hottest debate
Science

Charles Dickens’s belief in spontaneous combustion sparked Victorian London’s hottest debate

By Sam Kean

Allen Telescope Array
Science

How Jill Tarter helped bring SETI’s alien-seeking Allen Telescope Array to life

By Sarah Scoles

Why Morse code is actually a really weird way to communicate
Technology

Why Morse code is actually a really weird way to communicate

By Dean Buonomano

America’s standard, bland beer is slowly being replaced by the weird stuff
Science

America’s standard, bland beer is slowly being replaced by the weird stuff

By Patrick E. McGovern

book cover
Science

Fun activities for your next vacation to Mercury

By Olivia Koski & Jana Grcevich

The training accident that almost ruined my chance to be an astronaut
Science

The training accident that almost ruined my chance to be an astronaut

By By: Leland Melvin

How the first broad-spectrum antibiotic emerged from the Missouri dirt
Health

How the first broad-spectrum antibiotic emerged from the Missouri dirt

By William Rosen

How plagues help scientists puzzle out the past
Science

How plagues help scientists puzzle out the past

By Brenna Hassett

Crinum cassicaule
Science

Behind the scenes of the most beautiful botanical sketches

By Helen & William Bynum

Kids with books
Health

Reading with your baby will help her for the rest of her life

By Sara Chodosh

star clusters overlaid with pink and blue colors
Science

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why dark matter matters (and is kind of our frenemy)

By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Your sense of smell is actually pretty amazing
Science

Your sense of smell is actually pretty amazing

By Bob Holmes

The evolutionary history of your incredibly awkward feelings
Science

The evolutionary history of your incredibly awkward feelings

By Ty Tashiro

skulls
Health

Burning bones helped prove that women were poisoned by glowing paint

By Kate Moore

orange spiky sea cucumber in the water
Environment

Sea cucumbers have a secret superpower

By Amina Khan

book cover not a scientist
Technology

When politicians link immigrants to disease, the science just doesn’t add up

By Dave Levitan

The play-by-play of a total solar eclipse
Science

The play-by-play of a total solar eclipse

By John Dvorak

Matija Strlič
Science

Old books actually smell like chocolate and coffee

By Mary Beth Griggs

Want to understand infinity? Start with puff pastry.
Science

Want to understand infinity? Start with puff pastry.

By Eugenia Cheng

Feathers in the colors of the rainbow
Science

Organizing the natural world by color makes for some seriously satisfying photos

By Julie Seabrook Ream

Living with a lynx—for science
Environment

Living with a lynx—for science

By Thomas McNamee

a humble bound book
Technology

3D printing is tackling what may be its biggest challenge yet: the humble book

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Fitness trackers can be addictive—and dangerous
Gear

Fitness trackers can be addictive—and dangerous

By Adam Alter

We need to protect the world’s soil before it’s too late
Environment

We need to protect the world’s soil before it’s too late

By Paul Bogard

Why preserving wild spaces is important to agriculture
Environment

Why preserving wild spaces is important to agriculture

By Rob Dunn

The quest to engineer entire organs in a lab
Health

The quest to engineer entire organs in a lab

By Adam Piore

Scientists are experimenting with an entire town’s sleep
Health

Scientists are experimenting with an entire town’s sleep

By Benjamin Reiss

This is how your brain constructs emotions
Health

This is how your brain constructs emotions

By Lisa Feldman Barrett

Want people to volunteer as lab rats? Turn your science into a game.
Gear

Want people to volunteer as lab rats? Turn your science into a game.

By Asi Burak and Laura Parker

What are the ethics of creating new life in a simulated universe?
Science

What are the ethics of creating new life in a simulated universe?

By Zeeya Merali

What’s next for the drone war?
Technology

What’s next for the drone war?

By Kelsey D. Atherton

How the Pacific Ocean changes weather around the world
Environment

How the Pacific Ocean changes weather around the world

By Simon Winchester

Books to buy for your smart friend
Gear

Books to buy for your smart friend

10 incredible space photos from astronaut Don Pettit’s new book
Science

10 incredible space photos from astronaut Don Pettit’s new book

By Excerpt

A Comic-Book Cure for Climate Change
Environment

A Comic-Book Cure for Climate Change

By Jeremy Deaton

Cooking With Seaweed
Environment

Cooking With Seaweed

By Nexus Media

pearlfish and a sea cucumber
Environment

This Fish Burrows Up A Sea Cucumber’s Anus For Safety (And Food)

By Matt Simon

What It’s Like To Spacewalk For The First Time
Science

What It’s Like To Spacewalk For The First Time

Under The Microscope, Food Has A Big Personality
Science

Under The Microscope, Food Has A Big Personality

By Nadia Berenstein

cat in carrier
Environment

How To Train Your Cat Using Science

By Sarah Fecht