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a monkey standing up on two legs in a forest

9 rare animals caught on camera in the ‘Amazon of Asia’

By Popular Science Team

Flashforge 3D printers on sale at Amazon

Amazon just dropped the prices on these editor-approved Flashforge 3D printers and filaments

By Stan Horaczek

Bow drill in action, New Kingdom tomb painting from Western Thebes, Tomb of Rekhmire, object 31.6.25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain

Forgotten hand tool rewrites ancient Egyptian history

Greenworks power tools with batteries

Amazon is clearing out Greenworks yard tools during this get-ready-for-spring flash sale

By Stan Horaczek

Thresher shark seen from below swimming in ocean

Ancient sharks once swam in this landlocked state

Wild boars killed by a pellet gun is seen inside a booby trap at a residential area near Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Tomioka town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, March 30, 2017. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Nuclear hog hybrids are breeding at breakneck speed in Japan

screenshot of apple music inside chatgpt

How to connect Apple Music to ChatGPT

A close-up photograph of a small, fluffy Great Tit perched on a frost-covered branch during winter. The bird has a distinctive black cap, white cheeks, and a bright yellow breast with a black stripe. The branch is adorned with small red berries and delicate ice crystals, set against a soft, blurred background of snow-covered foliage.

How do birds stay warm in winter?

By Clarissa Brincat

Bison bones are scattered across the Bergstrom site in central Montana.

Why bison hunters abandoned a kill site 1,200 years ago

By Laura Baisas

Candidates for Luna 9's landing site. Credit: Pinault et al.

Astronomers close in on long-lost Soviet lunar lander

Seed cone of the evergreen Norway spruce tree, Picea abies.

No, trees can’t anticipate a solar eclipse

Winter coats on sale at REI

REI’s winter coat and jacket clearance has deep deals on The North Face, Columbia, Patagonia, and more

By Stan Horaczek

Scans of severed skull fragments from Iberian Peninsula

Severed head rituals were more widespread in Iron Age Iberia than we thought

a new species of lady bug. it is black and the size of a grain of sand

New ladybug species is the size of a grain of sand

By Margherita Bassi

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The world’s only dark sky airport sits inside a national park

By Alisha McDarris

A young lynx playfully throws a rodent into the air before killing and devouring it.

16 astonishing images from the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

a sea turtle swimming with a boat in the distance

Endangered Species

The world’s smallest sea turtle lives in a noisy ocean

By Margherita Bassi

A colorized historical photograph showing a group of men in traditional Middle Eastern attire, including robes and turbans, gathered at an outdoor coffee house. On the left, a man in a white robe stands behind a counter featuring a large, ornate metal coffee urn. To the right, several other men are seated around a small table, engaged in conversation, reflecting the long history of coffee as a social staple.

4 times drinking coffee was illegal—or even punishable by death

Directly avobe view of many wooden ecological cotton swabs on a blue colored background

Stop cleaning your ears wrong

fake images of wild horses standing on a beach wrapped in pink mattress-like insulation material

No, North Carolina’s wild horses were not wrapped in insulation

By Margherita Bassi