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Traditional Irish bagpipes fitted to connect with an amplifier

Inventor plays homemade electromagnetic bagpipes in rock band

a black and white cow standing on green grass in an open field

Cows can tell humans apart, new study finds

By Laura Baisas

New Hypershell X Series hiker

Hypershell X Ultra S hiking exoskeleton review: Adaptive assistance for every body

By Sarah Horaczek

Crescent outline of Mars taken by Psyche spacecraft

Mars shines in ethereal photo from Psyche space probe

a swimming hippo

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

There’s more than one way to sterilize a cocaine hippo. Unfortunately, both ways suck.

By Popular Science Team

Close-up of a pencil eraser rubbing out a mistake. There are little pink bits on the page and a blue out of focus background.

Ask Us Anything

How do erasers actually work? It’s surprisingly complicated.

By Harriet Weber

3D render illustration of T. rext and various other dinosaurs in a forest

Why were T. rex’s arms so tiny? Paleontologists finally find an answer.

Smart glasses have gotten a lot less nerdy

Google’s Android XR smart glasses hope to succeed where AI-first wearables have failed

By Stan Horaczek

spiders with happy faces

Newly discovered spider has smiley face on its back

Artist's impression showing the Sun blasting matter towards Earth. Around Earth is a magnetic field, with a bright patch pointing towards the Sun, curved around Earth like a shield. Looking down on the process is the Smile spacecraft. It's view of the X-rays emitted at the edge of Earth's magnetic field is highlighted

SMILE spacecraft will use X-ray vision to study the northern lights and more

A man wearing black Sony 1000X The ColleXion headphones, relaxing in an Eames lounge chair

Sony marks a decade of noise-canceling innovation with premium 1000X The ColleXion headphones

a close-up of a black and yellow bumblebee landing on the yellow center of an orange flower

Worker bees have power to pick their queen

By Laura Baisas

Snow Peak grill at a campsite with seafood cooking.

Snow Peak’s editor-approved camping gear rarely goes on sale, but you can save 20% right now on tents, fire pits, furniture, and more

By Sarah Horaczek

Two images. On the left of photo of a boy with dark curly hair wearing an orange shirt poses with a black and white electric guitar. On the right, is a black and white electric guitar.

Meet the college student crafting electric guitars from scratch

By Laura Kiniry

A model with long, flowing bleach-blonde hair, showcasing the Marshall Milton A.N.C. headphones atop his luxurious locks as he walks through the streets at night.

Introducing Milton A.N.C.: Marshall’s new Hi-Res, low-profile foldable headphones

Drill boring hole in ancient mollusk shell in laboratory

Neanderthals dined on shellfish much earlier than humans

Plaster cast of Pompeii victim curled up on the ground

This Pompeii victim was likely a doctor trying to help survivors

Close up of child hand writing in notebook

Leg evolution made most humans right-handed

small dingo bones in soil with a yellow tape measure showing size

1,000-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

By Laura Baisas

a beetle with black and red coloring

61 new beetles discovered in China

By Margherita Bassi