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Close up of White person's hands holding orange cough drops on a orange background

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Can you overdose on cough drops? Short answer: Yes.

By Cat Rainsford

a bunk bed on an airplane and standing seats

15 innovative, wacky airplane seat designs

By Mack DeGeurin

A wide-angle, colorized historical photograph shows the grand landscape of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In the background, the iconic Administration Building with its massive gold-ribbed dome dominates the skyline. In the foreground and middle ground, throngs of fairgoers in Victorian-era attire walk along wide gravel paths and over arched bridges spanning the fair's lagoons. On the right, a circular, white pavilion with neoclassical arches is visible, while a small electric launch boat glides across the water on the left.

The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair in 9 stunning color photos

Young black girl with buck teeth eating a big red and white lollipop. She's wearing a yellow shirt with overalls.

No, sugar doesn’t actually cause cavities

A green parrot stands outside of its cage looking at a young boy with brown hair wearing a pink shirt.

Why parrots talk like humans

By Popular Science Team

small kitten sitting on a golden retriever's head.

Why some cats love dogs—despite the risk

By Clarissa Brincat

A retro, red-colored teardrop-shaped car on a yellow newspaper or magazine background.

In 1934, Chrysler bet big on teardrop-shaped cars

By Bill Gourgey

Close up photo of white woman wearing jean overalls showing a scar on her upper left chest several inches long.

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Why scars never disappear

By RJ Mackenzie

A multiracial group of friends toasting drinks during dinner party in garden.

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The science of hosting the perfect dinner party

By Clarissa Brincat

person holding phone with netflix on it

How to make your Netflix stream look less terrible

Young asian woman enjoying a relaxing journey during the flight, napping next to an open airplane window.

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The best way to sleep on a plane, according to science

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

A dramatic landscape photograph depicts a fountain-style volcanic eruption at dusk. Bright orange and red lava bursts from a central vent, spraying molten rock into the air above a dark, rugged volcanic cone. A massive plume of yellow-tinted smoke and ash rises toward a sky filled with soft blue and pink clouds. In the foreground, white steam or volcanic gas drifts across a desolate, blackened lava field.

What would happen if Yellowstone’s ‘supervolcano’ erupted today?

By Nidhi Sharma

A close-up photograph shows the lower face and smile of a woman with warm-toned skin and curly dark hair. She has a wide, natural smile that reveals a row of straight, bright white teeth. The lighting is soft and flattering, emphasizing the smooth texture of her lips and the healthy appearance of her dental alignment.

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No, white teeth don’t mean healthy teeth

A digital 3D illustration shows a modern smartphone tightly wrapped in heavy green chains and secured with a large, golden padlock against a vibrant lime-green background. The phone's screen reflects a soft, multicolored gradient, suggesting it is powered on but physically inaccessible. The image serves as a visual metaphor for digital lockouts, mobile security, or the concept of a "digital detox".

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Does deleting social media make you happier or lonelier? Short answer: It depends.

By Harriet Weber

Freshly baked homemade brownies on a parchment paper. There's some sprigs of mint and a gold-colored fork resting on the left side.

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The best brownie recipe, according to science

By Clarissa Brincat

There’s a helpful translation tool hidden in your iPhone Messages

Hand holds vintage photograph of young boy riding a plastic toy horse with pile of old photos in background.

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Why don’t we remember being babies?

By Popular Science Team

A wide-angle landscape photograph shows a lone hiker standing on the extreme edge of a sheer granite cliff, overlooking a vast mountain valley. The hiker is dwarfed by the massive, rugged rock formations and the deep, evergreen-covered canyon below. The distant mountains are shrouded in a light blue haze under a clear, bright sky, emphasizing the immense scale and potential danger of the high-altitude wilderness.

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Someone dies in a national park. Now what?

By Jennifer Byrne

a satirical currency showing president andrew jackson as a cat

Fake banknotes mocked a US president. And are now worth thousands.

By Laura Baisas

Portrait attentive teckel puppy dog tilting head side. Isolated on yellow colored background

Why do dogs tilt their heads? It isn’t just cute.

By Niranjana Rajalakshmi

How to refresh your phone without upgrading it

A medium-shot portrait shows a woman with long wavy brown hair and glasses, wearing a yellow shirt, making a distinctly disgusted or sour face. She is holding a large milk chocolate bar in both hands, which has a small bite taken out of it. The background is a bright lime green, filled with numerous large, scattered, metallic turquoise-green teardrop-shaped objects.

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Candy now tastes different. It’s not just you.

By Andrew Coletti

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Fitness & Exercise

6 stretches to relieve plantar fasciitis pain, according to a physical therapist

By Jordan Burchette

A medium-shot photograph shows a smiling senior woman with blonde hair riding a black bicycle through a park. She is wearing a black puffer jacket and grey trousers, and she is looking ahead with a joyful expression. The background is a soft blur of green grass and dark leafy bushes, emphasizing the motion of the bike.

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Why you never forget how to ride a bike

Man using metal detector at beach

How to start metal detecting

How to stop your smart TV from tracking you

A portrait-style photograph shows a life-like reconstruction of an early human ancestor, Australopithecus afarensis, against a dark, blurred background. The figure is shown from the chest up, with its head turned to look over its shoulder toward the camera. It has prominent brow ridges, a flat nose, and large, dark, expressive eyes. Its skin is a dark tan, and its head and body are covered in short, reddish-brown hair.

Why humans don’t have tails

By Sara Kiley Watson

White person's hand holding red fuel pump refueling silver car

It’s illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey. But why?

By Laura Kiniry

baby oppossum on a stick

What to do if you find a baby opossum

By Margherita Bassi

A candid, full-body photograph shows a young girl swinging joyfully in a lush, green forest setting. She is barefoot and wearing a simple pink dress, with her eyes closed and a wide smile as she glides through the air. Warm sunlight filters through the dense trees in the background, illuminating the scene and a small wooden structure behind her.

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Why did childhood summers feel endless?

By Jennifer Byrne

A side-by-side composite image features a portrait of naturalist Sir David Attenborough on the left and the bird named in his honor, the Inambari Gnatcatcher (Polioptila attenboroughi), on the right. Attenborough is shown smiling against a bright blue background, while the small, grey and white gnatcatcher is perched on a tree branch among green leaves in its Brazilian habitat.

6 famous people with animals named in their honor

By Margherita Bassi

Two nuggets made from lab-grown chicken meat served on a bao with a dark sauce. This close up photograph shows a white person's hand holding the bao.

Is ‘lab-grown’ meat actually safe?

By Clarissa Brincat

How to rescue an old laptop by installing Linux on it

A colorized historical photograph captures a group of railroad workers posing with a large steam locomotive on a wooden trestle bridge. The workers, a diverse group including several men in rough work clothes and hats, are clustered around the front of the black engine, which features a prominent cone-shaped smokestack. The trestle bridge curves through a dense evergreen forest with a rocky hillside in the background, illustrating the challenging terrain of early American railroad construction.

7 captivating photos of train travel’s first century

Person holding large pile of colorful clothes close-up on white background

What to do with clothes you can’t donate

By Debbie Wolfe

Woman having lunch on an underground station platform, Berlin, Germany. She's wearing a plaid jacket and has dark curly hair.

Is it okay to eat standing up? A doctor weighs in.

Ants are eating onion on the kitchen tile floor.

3 myths about keeping ants out of your house

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

A retro-style color illustration depicts a cross-section of a futuristic multi-tiered moving sidewalk system. A group of elegantly dressed commuters from the mid-20th century stand on an elevated, reddish-brown platform that is supported by a series of visible white mechanical rollers. The illustration shows three parallel platforms layered at slightly different heights to indicate varying speeds, with a dark subterranean tunnel and a stationary train car visible in the lower-left corner.

In 1871, cities almost got moving sidewalks. Why are we still waiting?

By Bill Gourgey

Young white woman eating an ice cream touched her temples due to a headache. She's blonde wearing a yellow shirt on a pink solid background.

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What’s a brain freeze and why do they happen?

Teenage boy with dark curly hair with braces exercising good dental using a water pick while looking at his reflection in a bathroom mirror.

Do water picks really work? Dentists weigh in.

ATA SATA portable hard drive with the circuitry visible on a yellow background. Concept of computing, hardware, hard drive, storage, data, PC, assembly, technician and engineer.

From memory cards to SSDs: How long will your digital media storage actually last?

A wide-angle photograph shows a woman sleeping on her side in a large bed, tucked under a heavy, rumpled white duvet. Her head rests on a white pillow, and her face is partially illuminated by warm morning sunlight streaming through the slats of a window. The room has a minimalist aesthetic with light-colored wooden paneled walls and soft, high-contrast lighting that creates long shadows across the bed.

The best sleep position, according to science

By Laura Kiniry

A tight, candid close-up captures three Black men of different generations leaning their heads together in shared laughter. The man in the center is older with a grey beard, flanked by two younger men. All three have their eyes closed or squinted with joy, showcasing genuine, broad smiles and visible teeth. The image has a warm, intimate feel, emphasizing a strong emotional connection.

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Why is laughter contagious? Blame your brain.

By Clarissa Brincat

A digital illustration of a large, prehistoric marine reptile, specifically a Pliosaur, swimming in a deep blue ocean. The creature has a dark, streamlined body with a pale underbelly, four powerful flippers, and a massive, elongated head. Its jaws are slightly open, revealing rows of sharp, protruding teeth. Beams of sunlight pierce through the water's surface from the top right, illuminating the predator as it glides through the clear, underwater environment.

The sea monster goes ‘bloop’—or does it?

By Andrew Coletti

A medium close-up photograph shows a woman with her eyes closed, lying peacefully in bed while wearing light pink over-ear headphones. She is tucked under a textured grey blanket, resting her head on multiple pillows. The lighting is soft and natural, emphasizing a calm and restful atmosphere.

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White noise vs brown noise: What’s the best sound for sleeping?

By Laura Kiniry

Gemini said An over-the-shoulder photograph shows a person training a small black dog on a polished wooden floor. The person, seen from the back in a grey sweater, holds up their hand in a "stay" or "wait" command gesture. The dog, a small black mixed-breed with floppy ears and a pink collar, sits attentively and looks up at the person with a focused expression.

Are some dog breeds really easier to train? Not really.

By RJ Mackenzie

Robin song bird, nothing prettier then the basic robin in summer

4 myths about backyard birds, debunked

A person lies in bed under a white duvet, their face partially illuminated by a bright shaft of morning light filtering through dark, heavy curtains. They have one hand resting on their forehead in a gesture of fatigue or waking up, creating a moody, high-contrast atmosphere of early morning.

Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl? What the science says.

By Laura Kiniry

Bright tropical monstera leaves basking in sunlight

How much light houseplants actually need

By Debbie Wolfe

A full-body shot of a Dilophosaurus animatronic at Universal Studios, shown with its colorful neck frill fully extended. The dinosaur is depicted mid-spray, with a stream of water shooting from its open mouth, and is surrounded by dense artificial tropical foliage.

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What ‘Jurassic Park’ got wrong about venomous dinosaurs

By Popular Science Team

a baby lion runs into its mother's butt

14 silly, never-before-seen images from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

A colorized historical photograph of prolific inventor Beulah Louise Henry, known as "Lady Edison," seated at a desk. She is dressed in a formal purple satin dress and pearls, operating a complex, specialized typewriter of her own design. She is looking down at a sheet of paper she is feeding into the machine.

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming ‘Lady Edison’

By Shoshi Parks

A wide-angle, underwater photograph of a young sea lion with large, dark eyes and long whiskers looking directly into the camera lens. Sunlight beams down through the clear blue water, illuminating the sea lion's head and other sea lions swimming in the background. The foreground shows a rocky seabed covered in marine life, including several dark, spiny sea urchins.

How marine mammals stay hydrated in a salty sea

By Sara Kiley Watson

A conceptual graphic featuring a young child with an afro standing alone against a textured purple and orange gradient background. A large, empty white thought bubble floats significantly above their head.

Not everyone has an internal monologue

By Jennifer Byrne

Close up of woman using smart phone

5 clever iPhone tricks you might not know

A conceptual photograph of a young woman with light-colored hair and a tattoo on her forearm, wearing a white t-shirt against a plain white background. The image uses a multiple-exposure effect to create several overlapping, translucent silhouettes of her figure, conveying a sense of disorientation, dizziness, or blurred vision. She has a pained or nauseated facial expression and is resting her head against her hand.

Why some people get motion sickness—and others don’t

By Laura Kiniry

Car cleaning kit essentials

How to clean your car like a professional detailer

By Stan Horaczek

A medium shot of a dark-furred cat standing on a desk cluttered with vintage papers and an inkwell. The cat is looking alertly to its right, with its whiskers and fur illuminated by a dramatic light source against a dark, moody background.

The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies

A close-up photograph of a Halobates, an ocean water strider, resting on the surface of the water. The insect has a long, slender dark body and very thin, wire-like legs that create slight indentations on the water's surface tension. Its reflection is visible on the surface, and the background is a soft, out-of-focus light blue and white.

Do any bugs live in the ocean? Short answer: Not really.

By Andrew Coletti

A close-up photograph of a young child with blonde hair smiling broadly, revealing several missing front baby teeth. The child is playfully covering their eyes with both hands, with a plain grey wall in the background.

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Why do we even have baby teeth?

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

A vibrant digital collage on a textured blue background featuring several human mouths in various speaking poses. Speech bubbles emerge from the mouths containing text in different languages and scripts, including "ESPAÑOL", "日本語" (Japanese), and "tiếng Việt" (Vietnamese), accented by colorful symbols like a hashtag, exclamation point, and question mark.

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Why are languages spoken at different speeds?

By RJ Mackenzie

Gemini said Two budgerigars, one blue and white and one green and yellow, perched on a wooden branch while appearing to "whisper" or interact closely.

From chirps to ‘hellos’: Why some birds talk like people

By Laura Kiniry

A Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) hovers delicately at a feeder in a backyard, its iridescent feathers glinting in the sunlight. These tiny birds are famous for their incredible long-distance migration, with some traveling up to 2,000 miles between North America and Central America each year. Providing sugar-water feeders in backyards is a common way for bird lovers to help fuel the hummingbirds' energy-intensive journey. During migration, their diet consists of nectar from flowers and feeders, supplemented with small insects for protein. Backyard feeders like this one offer a critical source of food, especially as natural nectar sources become scarce in colder months.

How to attract hummingbirds to your yard

By Debbie Wolfe