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Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

Ask Us Anything

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

Three thin rectangular cork-plugged bottles in a row, the left one nearly full of red vinegar, the middle one half full of yellow vinegar, and the right one about a quarter full of orange vinegar.

Making vinegar at home

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

White liquid marshmallow.

The anatomy of a marshmallow

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A packet of freeze-dried ice cream with a photo of an astronaut on the packaging.

If it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

Pectin: not just for jelly

Pectin: not just for jelly

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A burning pile of magnesium expelling white smoke against a dark blue background, with a fire extinguisher nozzle nearby setting it on fire.

Let burning metals lie

By Theodore Gray

A DIY pocket theremin.

Build a pocket theremin on the cheap

By Dave Prochnow

A person striking a block of plastic with a hammer, creating white lightning against a blue background.

Gray Matter: Trap lightning in a block

By Theodore Gray

A person wearing white work gloves striking a match on a light brown surface against a blue background.

Making a perfect match

By Theodore Gray

A person purifying silicon in a glass bowl. Top: burning magnesium in a mushroom cloud of white smoke; middle top: burning hydrogen as a flame; middle bottom: burning silane gas as white bursts; bottom: falling silicon particles.

Making silicon from sand

By Theodore Gray

Liquid nitrogen vanilla ice cream in a goblet glass with a strawberry on top and water vapor all around it.

Microcrystalline in 30 seconds

By Theodore Gray