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Great tits aren’t the only things evolving to adapt to humans. Here are 12 others.

Great tits aren’t the only things evolving to adapt to humans. Here are 12 others.

By Sara Chodosh

a gun and bullets

Gun research could save lives, but America won’t fund it

By Lacey Wallace/The Conversation

a kitten in fall leaves

Where the heck is autumn?

By Rachel Feltman

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble

By Kate Baggaley

Cow farts are an even bigger problem than we thought

Cow farts are an even bigger problem than we thought

By Sara Chodosh

Squirrels are so organized it’s nuts

Squirrels are so organized it’s nuts

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

The Mozilla Firefox office building.

11 hot Firefox tips and tricks that might finally convince you to switch browsers

If everyone became vegetarian, would the planet actually be better off?

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If everyone became vegetarian, would the planet actually be better off?

By Sara Kiley Watson

a couple wearing glasses sits on the grass watching the eclipse

How to look at the eclipse without damaging your eyes

By Claire Maldarelli

handful of pills

The three types of supplements you should never buy

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Humans have created 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Here’s how you can help stop the madness.

Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds

Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds

By Sara Chodosh

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A TV in a dark room, backlit by purple light, with a lot of streaming TV and music apps visible on the screen.

Where to find new music, movie, and TV recommendations

9.5 tips to scientifically enhance your grill game

How to smile without looking like a creep, according to scientists

How to beach-proof your phone

By Sophie Bushwick

crowd in swimming pool

Ask Us Anything

Peeing in the pool is actually really bad for you

By Claire Maldarelli

52 of Cassini’s most beautiful postcards from the outer solar system

No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks

No, menstrual blood does not attract sharks

By Rachel Feltman

Do probiotics actually do anything?

Ask Us Anything

Do probiotics actually do anything?

By Claire Maldarelli

The most efficient way to brush and floss

The most efficient way to brush and floss

By Claire Maldarelli

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

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Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

By Claire Maldarelli

tomato and ketchup

7 ingenious ways to deal with food waste

By Eleanor Cummins

Commercial airplane flying across almost full moon. The question is: Are long flights safe?

Are long flights safe for your health?

By Kate Baggaley

How many hours of sleep do you actually need?

Ask Us Anything

How many hours of sleep do you actually need?

By Claire Maldarelli

Climate change contributes to mental illness

Climate change contributes to mental illness

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

The easiest way to kick your caffeine habit

The easiest way to kick your caffeine habit

By Claire Maldarelli

Operation Upshot-Knothole Annie Nuclear Test

Watch a 1953 nuclear blast test disintegrate a house in high resolution

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.

How to make sewage drinkable

By Sara Chodosh

A black Apple TV 4K box on a black surface next to an Apple TV remote.

14 crisp tips for your Apple TV box

A large group of red and orange jellyfish floating in blue water.

A jellyfish sting treatment that actually works

By Sara Chodosh

A silver Macbook Air keyboard that someone needs to learn how to clean. There are crumbs and even a hair on it.

How to clean a keyboard without breaking it

By Claire Maldarelli

cat sits next to scratching post

Keep your cat overlord happy with this easy DIY scratching post

Humans are responsible for the vast majority of wildfires in the U.S.

By Mary Beth Griggs

An iPhone on top of the keyboard of a Macbook laptop, getting ready to back up photos to the cloud.

The most effective ways to back up your precious photos to the cloud

horse in front of chemical company

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls

By Mary Beth Griggs

female dance moves

These dance moves are scientifically proven to be sexy

How to survive the ‘Little House’ books

How to survive the ‘Little House’ books

By Sophie Bushwick

Carnivorous plants aren’t as cool as you think

By Sara Chodosh

What animal has the craziest camouflage?

By Kate Baggaley

One notebook could replace all the productivity apps that have failed you

By Amy Schellenbaum

A pair of hands holds three homemade bath bombs over a bath tub full of water.

How to make your own bath bombs

By Rachel Feltman

Gun control laws actually work, according to new research

Human population on Mars depicted in a SpaceX Mars colony rendition.

Would Earth laws apply to Mars colonists?

Why We Always Get Sick While Traveling – And How To Prevent It

Why We Always Get Sick While Traveling – And How To Prevent It

By PopSci Editors

10 embarrassing animal photos captured by camera traps

10 embarrassing animal photos captured by camera traps

By Mary Beth Griggs

This Earth Day, cut down your food waste

By Grennan Milliken

10 Exceptional Images Of Earth From Space

Person with short brown hair and bright yellow shirt on a light blue background holding tissue up to runny nose

Why runny noses are good for you

By Alexandra Ossola

Earth's horizon and Pacific Ocean photographed by NASA astronauts on the International Space Station. The planet's curvature proves that the Earth is round, not flat.

10 ways you can tell the Earth is round

By Moriel Schottlender

Ask Us Anything

Why don’t we just throw all our garbage into volcanoes?

By Mary Beth Griggs

A Labrador retriever smelling for explosives with a member of a bomb squad at the trial of the 2015 Boston Marathon bomber

No machine can beat a dog’s bomb-detecting sniffer

Vernier calipers on a light wooden surface.

Tool School: How to get the most precise measurements

By Vin Marshall

A black Mercedes-Benz in a parking lot.

How I converted my Mercedes-Benz to run on veggie oil

Ferrofluid forming a pile of conical shapes.

How to make ferrofluid

An R2-D2 cooler in the corner of a carpeted room, with video game controllers organized in front of it.

Now this is the droid we’re looking for

By Popular Science Team

A thermal lance made out of bacon cutting a steel pan in half.

Bacon: the other white heat

By Theodore Gray

A lamp made out of a mold from a plastic bottle, based on a 1961 article in Popular Science magazine.

Bright Idea: The plastic bottle lamp

By Joel Barnard

Three homemade bubble lights, one blue, one red, and one green, over a small table and a chair.

Liquid lamps

By Radiohole (Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman)

An iPhone with app icons visible.

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

By Dave Prochnow

A person holding a white iPod.

New music from an old iPod

By Laura Silver

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team