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YouTube screenshot of snake using DIY invention to walk with robot legs
Technology

Watch a snake wearing robot trousers strut like a lizard

By Andrew Paul

Press photo of John Deere 8RX Tractor with ExactEmerge Planter
Technology

John Deere tractors are getting the jailbreak treatment from hackers

By Andrew Paul

Stock image of a satellite orbiting above the Earth with the moon in the background
Technology

Hackers prove it doesn’t take much to hijack a dead satellite

By Andrew Paul

Couple smiling and waving into Ring security doorbell camera
Technology

Amazon is turning Ring surveillance footage into a reality show

By Andrew Paul

Four teens standing in a row using their smartphones
Technology

Study confirms the obvious: youth have abandoned Facebook

By Andrew Paul

Photo of customers in line to checkout at a Walmart
Technology

Walmart is on the hunt for its own streaming partnership

By Andrew Paul

a black, white and purple designed image of a man driving a levitating car
Technology

The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive

By Bill Gourgey

Banana butterfly on person's brown ponytail at butterfly house in Frankfurt, Germany
Environment

If you have a serious fear of bugs, a butterfly house might change your tune

By Sara Kiley Watson

The Craiyon interface, showing a courtroom sketch of a sperm whale vs. a giant squid
DIY

5 ways to get Craiyon, formerly Dall-E mini, to bend to your will

By John Kennedy

Faafafine individual at Auckland, New Zealand pride parade
Science

Sex and gender binaries don’t tell the entire story of life

By Rachel Feltman

First of a kind study finds that after five years, trans children stand firm in their identities.
Science

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition

By Hannah Seo

a female astronaut on the international space station takes a picture of section of the station with equipment
Science

What an extraterrestrial archaeological dig could tell us about space culture

By Tatyana Woodall

Wooden lacquer-painted tray by Mexican artist José Manuel de la Cerda depicting a war scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Science

Classic Mexican art stood the test of time with the help of this secret ingredient

By Maggie Galloway

Museum collections tag for Indigenous seeds from the University of Michigan
Environment

Indigenous farmers are ‘rematriating’ centuries-old seeds to plant a movement

By Kalen Goodluck

Light brown tarantula with white discharge around mouth being attacked by a nematode worm on a bacteria backsplash
Environment

What do you call a tiny tarantula killer? Jeff Daniels.

By Purbita Saha

A bronze helmet shown from the front and the side. It has curving horns coming out of the sides of the head, and a birdlike face.
Science

Horned helmets came from Bronze Age artists, not Vikings

By Philip Kiefer

a bushel of lychee, a red, prickly skinned spherical fruit with white, glossy edible flesh surrounding a dark oval shaped seed. two of the lychees' skin is peeled to reveal the white flesh
Environment

Good news for lychee lovers: There may be a way to grow the fruits year-round

By Nikita Amir

Bald man looking up
Gear

Gifts for your bald friends

By Jason Lederman

Slats of an old shipwreck in Lake Michigan seen from the air
Environment

Dead ships find solace under the treacherous surface of the Great Lakes

By Margo Milanowski

reading gifts
Gear

Bookworms, rejoice! Here’s a gift guide for grads who love reading

By Emma Banks

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete
Science

Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete

By Elana Spivack

Dune 2021 movie actors looking across the desert of Arrakis
Science

Could humans survive on Dune’s Arrakis?

By Farnsworth et al./The Conversation

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem
Technology

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

By Shira Feder

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump
Technology

How the stunt crew in ‘No Time to Die’ pulled off the film’s astounding motorcycle jump

By Rob Verger

Soy sauce, cilantro, broth, and other umami foods on a pink and purple background
Science

What is umami? No, really.

By Elana Spivack

a sulfur-crested cockatoo perched on a wall
Environment

Australian cockatoos are teaching each other to open trash cans

By Philip Kiefer

Inside the ambitious video game project trying to preserve Indigenous sports
Gear

Inside the ambitious video game project trying to preserve Indigenous sports

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Orange jessamine flowers
Science

Get to know the plant that showed up in the National Spelling Bee finals

By Purbita Saha

White Olympics five-ring flag flying during the 1988 summer games in Seoul
Health

Why are people obsessed with the Olympics?

By Jake Bittle

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic
Science

The real Jurassic Park may have been in the Arctic

By Grace Wade

The Egyptian hall
Science

It may be time for museums to return Egyptian mummies to their coffins

By Doug Struck/Undark

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow
DIY

The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

the start of the cooperative board game, Pandemic
DIY

Two-player games that won’t turn you and your friend into enemies

By Harry Guinness

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance
Technology

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

By Rob Verger

Darth Vader weilding a lightsaber
Science

How lightsabers went from a DIY project to culturally iconic

By Eric Alt

a woman sits in a dark house and browses on her computer, with the image overlaid with colorful pictures of a much more luxurious home within the frame of a web browser
Health

The psychology behind our love of ‘Zillow porn’

By Nicole Johnson

An illustration of a person with footsteps
Health

Why 10,000 steps a day isn’t the secret to better health

By Claire Maldarelli

Model with long brown hair along the water using a vape pen
Health

Music videos are marketing vaping products to teens—and it’s working

By Jon-Patrick Allem/The Conversation

A person putting an Apple Pencil on a blank iPad Mini screen.
Technology

NFTs are blowing up the digital art and collectibles worlds. Here’s how they work.

By Stan Horaczek

Four gold spoons with reddish spice blends on a marble table
DIY

These 4 DIY spice mixes will kick your cooking up a notch

By Meher Mirza/Saveur

Sound on film
Technology

Why square aspect ratios still live on in new movies like ‘Justice League’

By Stan Horaczek

sperm whales seen from above
Environment

Sperm whales have a surprisingly deep—and useful—culture

By Ellie Shechet

The NASA STS-39 shuttle crew in orange astronaut suits on a space backdrop
Technology

What did ’90s NASA astronauts pack for space?

By Scott Murdock/Task & Purpose

Washington Memorial at night with rows of lights along a pool
Health

12 months of pandemic life in 12 photographs

By Purbita Saha

The sun over Maunakea volcano and research observatories in Hawaii
Science

In Hawaii, an ancient observatory offers lessons for modern stargazers

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

tiny plants growing out of stacks of coins
Environment

Sci-fi carbon coins could actually save our planet

By Ula Chrobak

A plastic piece depicting a menacing plastic dragon on a board game
DIY

Organize and accessorize your board games with 3D printing

By RK Pendergrass

A spotify screenshot
Technology

Spotify has a major audio-quality upgrade coming later this year

By Stan Horaczek

Mona Chalabi fermented food chart
Science

See the wonderful world of fermented foods on one delicious chart

By Hannah Seo

Seville orange on wood
Environment

These oranges are for a lot more than juicing

By Carlos C. Olaechea/Saveur

Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator interface with model
Technology

Meet the eerily realistic digital people made with Epic’s MetaHuman Creator

By Stan Horaczek

A model in a wine-red cutout dress on a beach
Technology

Tech-savvy fashion forecasters already know what you’ll be wearing in two years

By Rachael Zisk

A baby red fox with its mouth open in a grassy field
Environment

What does the red fox say?

By Dan Nosowitz

Chinese parents and kid have a meal in their dining room
Science

Learning a second language early might have ripple effects throughout your life

By Rahul Rao

Three U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Super Bowl LV.
Technology

Everything to know about the bombers that flew over Super Bowl LV

By Rob Verger

ASMR
Health

Why ASMR calms some people down and sends others into a rage

By Eleanor Cummins

Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." in 1921
Technology

The first ‘robots’ were made of flesh and bone

By John M. Jordan/MIT Press Reader

An open dictionary with a red cover on a table
Science

Local languages are dying out and taking invaluable knowledge with them

By Hannah Seo

Parents and two kids on New Year's in party hats and sparklers
DIY

Make your own New Year’s ball, and 4 other family party ideas

By Purbita Saha

A pack of llamas on top of a canyon in Peru
Environment

Llamas are hotter than ever. Here’s why.

By Emily Wakild/The Conversation

League of Kitchens instructor Mab Abbasgholizadeh teaches her students how to make classic Persian dishes, including crispy tahdig rice.
Technology

Multicultural cooking classes offer up something tasty on Zoom

By Max Falkowitz/Saveur

Athena Aktipis
Health

Sharing doesn’t make you a sucker. This scientist has the numbers to prove it.

By Rachel Feltman

“Ferme la Praise's" aging cave.
Science

When specialty cheesemaking becomes a quarantine pastime

By Kat Craddock/Saveur

Iconic items for every Rebel, Sith Lord, and Wookie rookie
Gear

Iconic items for every Rebel, Sith Lord, and Wookie rookie

By PopSci Commerce Team