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Patagonia gear on sale at REI

REI is blowing out tons of Patagonia gear during this year-end clearance sale

By Stan Horaczek

a global density map of the world's buildings

Browse a 3D map of the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

woman walking with green fart cloud

Fitness & Exercise

You should start taking ‘Fart Walks’

red and white and red and green candy canes on a green background

The magic of making candy canes by hand

By Laura Baisas

a small cat walking on leaves

Endangered Species

Tiny wild cat spotted in Thailand for first time in 30 years

By Margherita Bassi

A coffee machine, robot vacuum, and stand mixer on sale after the holidays at Amazon

These 59 post-holiday Amazon deals drop kitchen and home upgrades for clearance prices

By Stan Horaczek

a variety of products

Best of What's New

5 personal care products that solved real problems in 2025

By Rachel Feltman

a black horse on dirt

12 award-winning photos of our beautiful world

By Popular Science Team

A person in a blue jacket holds a labeled glass jar filled with grain seeds while standing in a narrow aisle of a genebank. The room is filled from floor to ceiling with shelves holding hundreds of similar jars for long-term storage.

Ask Us Anything

The seed vaults that could save humanity

veteranarians sit in an inflatable pool with a large sting ray

Giving a 140 pound stingray a check-up requires 8 people

By Laura Baisas

coins in dirt and a can in dirt

A couple walking their dog found $10 million worth of rare coins

a telescope image of an oval shaped star cluster

Hubble spots massive sandwich-shaped blob in deep space

By Mack DeGeurin

observatory under milky way

5 incredible aerospace breakthroughs in 2025

By Popular Science Team

Kirkjufellsfoss, Iceland

22 breathtaking images from the 2025 Landscape Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

E-scooter on fire in safety demonstration video from CPSC

Cozy up (safely) to an e-scooter’s lithium battery yule log

Ace Hardware Craftsman tool deal

Ace Hardware has Craftsman power tools for clearance prices right now

By Stan Horaczek

Cropped shot of an unrecognizable man washing his hands in the kitchen sink at home

Ditch the antibacterial soap this cold and flu season

By Alisha McDarris

An overhead view shows a group of diverse hands, with varying skin tones, arranged in a circle against a plain white background. The palms are open and facing upward, with some hands overlapping, creating a sense of unity and community. Some individuals wear rings or a beaded bracelet, and the sleeves of various shirts—plaid, denim, and solid colors—are visible at the edges of the frame.

Why do we have five fingers and toes?

By Laura Kiniry

Bokksu snack box subscription

Ultimate procrastinator’s gift guide: 62 digital and subscription gifts you can buy instantly from your phone

By Stan Horaczek

An uncut glasses lens held up by a lab technician

Inside the labs where glasses are redesigned for a hyper-visual world

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

three Lamborghinis driving

Lamborghini’s new hybrid supercar includes a three-level drift mode and three axial flux motors

By Kristin Shaw

Pair of African penguin chicks

Newborn African penguin named after a hot dog

A cluster of stars inside a large nebula. The clouds of gas and dust are predominantly bright red in colour and wispy, akin to flames. They are clumped in the bottom-left corner. Other clouds, deeper in the cluster behind many of the stars, appear pale pink. The stars are concentrated in the top half of the image and are mostly small, bright white and six-pointed. They cast blue light over the nebula. Other stars with very long spikes surrounding them lie in the foreground.

Space Telescope

James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes snap images of same nebula, 10 years apart

two astronauts share a holiday meal on the ISS

International Space Station

9 festive ISS holiday celebrations through the years

By Laura Baisas

a firefly glowing on a black background

‘Hope in a bottle’ for a deadly cancer and the firefly gene that lit the way

a butterfly with blue wings with black spots

Endangered Species

9 new butterflies discovered in old museum archives

By Margherita Bassi

a close up of a turtle with its head in its shell

Butt breathing and 5 other ways animals stay warm in winter

By Laura Baisas

a robot floating

International Space Station

Lost in space: How ’digital twins’ saved NASA’s robots

How to recover your deleted files

a large brown bear in italy

Bears in Italy inbreed more, but are less aggressive

By Margherita Bassi

Razer gaming gear on sale at Amazon

Amazon is blowing out Razer gaming gear including keyboards, mice, headsets, and chairs

By Stan Horaczek

A pink octopus squid floating upside down spotted by MBARI researchers

Dive into 2025’s most stunning deep-sea wildlife encounters

3D scan cross-section of an ant

Weak ants conquered Earth using sheer numbers

three white 3D printed animal skulls

3D printed skulls make mounting antlers less of a bloody mess

By Mack DeGeurin

NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to reveal different features of the cosmos. This image features a selection of colors emitted primarily by stars (blue, green, and white), hot hydrogen gas (blue), and cosmic dust (red). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Space Telescope

Explore NASA’s most detailed map of the night sky yet

A person bundled up in a hooded jacket and covered in snow is looking toward the camera in a snowy, blurry outdoor environment. The person's face is mostly obscured by a thick layer of snow and frost, with only the area around the eyes and nose showing exposed skin.

Ask Us Anything

The coldest body temperatures humans have survived

By RJ Mackenzie

roman ruins in northern england

Diarrhea slowed down Roman soldiers

By Laura Baisas

3D printed Christmas tree made from ice

Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree made of ice particles

Artistic representation of the collision of two planetesimals in the circumstellar disc of the star Fomalhaut.

First-of-its-kind cosmic collision spotted 25 light-years from Earth

Swearing and smiling emojis side by side on blue background

Go ahead and swear—it’s good for your health

Anthracite Black Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 headphones on a grey background

Our top wireless headphones of 2025 are on sale and arrive before Christmas if you order ASAP

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The practical gift guide: 35 boring-but-useful presents anyone would love

By Stan Horaczek

A taxidermied squirrel named Tommy Tucker standing upright inside a glass display case. The squirrel is dressed in a miniature pink pleated dress with puffy sleeves and a white ribbon tied around the waist, paired with a small pearl necklace. The display case is secured with a brass knob and a black padlock. In the blurred background, papers and a water bottle are visible on a desk.

During WWII, a dress-wearing squirrel sold war bonds alongside FDR

By Amy Crawford

several cheeses on a wooden board

Brie, cheddar, and other high-fat cheeses linked to lower dementia risk

By Laura Baisas

This artist's concepts shows a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. A massive star explodes in a supernova (left), which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two neutron stars are born (middle), at least one of which is believed to be less massive than our Sun. The neutron stars spiral together, sending gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos, before merging in a dramatic kilonova (right). Kilonovae seed the universe with the heaviest elements, such as gold at platinum, which glow with red light.

Space Telescope

Two neutron stars may have formed the first known ‘superkilonova’

Water flowing through the Hamlin Lake Dam in Ludington Michigan.

2,500 ‘high-risk’ U.S. dams are sinking into the ground

a mother polar bear walking on ice with two cubs behind her

Rare polar bear adoption could save cub’s life

By Laura Baisas

People visit an impression in a sidewalk in the Roscoe Village neighborhood known as the Chicago Rat Hole on January 24, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. The decades-old impression in the the shape of a rat (or squirrel) began attracting a regular stream of visitors after a post on X garnered more than 5 million views.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Chicago’s rat hole wasn’t made by a rat

By Popular Science Team

‘Mr. Fezziwig's Ball,’ an 1843 illustration by John Leech for ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. This novella was the earliest and most popular of Dickens' Christmas stories. The kissing under mistletoe (left) and evergreen decoration hanging from the ceiling are vestiges of pre-Christian winter rites.

A history of mistletoe: The parasitic ‘dung on a twig’

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Last-minute holiday gift guide: Over 30 editor-approved gadgets for everyone on your list

By Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware

This view of a region called Syrtis Major is from the 100,000th image captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera. Over nearly 20 years, HiRISE has helped scientists understand how the Red Planet’s surface is constantly changing.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snaps 100,000th image

A salt grain-sized microrobot on a human finger to illustrate size

Dancing robot is the size of a grain of salt

A cross sectional image of an actively growing microbialite from South Africa.

‘Living rocks’ suck up a lot of carbon

By Laura Baisas

An 1886 color illustration depicting a crowd of people, including men, women, and children, gathered around a massive wheel of cheese in the East Room of the White House. A man in a dark coat is carving into the cheese with a knife, while others eagerly reach out with their own knives and hands to take a piece. In the foreground, a small boy sits on the floor eating a piece of the cheese. This event commemorates the distribution of the "Mammoth Cheese" gifted to President Andrew Jackson in 1835.

Andrew Jackson’s White House once hosted a cheese feeding frenzy

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Amazon has Anker’s power banks, chargers, and portable power stations on deep discount during these last minute holiday deals

By Stan Horaczek

Young sad girl sitting alone at home on sofa listening to sad music on wireless headphones crying and wiping her nose with a paper tissue.

Pop music has gotten sadder over the last 50 years

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the forming cluster Sh2-284. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri.

Space Telescope

Massive newborn star is firing two plasma jets at once

A thin sheet of plastic covered in transparent MOCHI film

Bubble wrap-like material could help insulate glass windows

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing a medieval dining scene involving Bishop Odo of Bayeux.

Famous phallic tapestry may have entertained monks during meals

By Laura Baisas

Four chocolate cookies are shown cooling on a wire rack after coming out of the oven.

Ask Us Anything

The best chocolate chip cookie recipe, according to science

By Clarissa Brincat

a caterpillar hanging from stick

Young moths hiss at predators

By Margherita Bassi

Man with metal detector stumbles on perplexing Viking Age grave

By Margherita Bassi

Black Technics EAH-AZ100 True Wireless Earbuds against a colorful sine wave background

These earbuds just won one of our top innovation awards and they’re on sale for a limited time

Arzopa portable monitor and digital picture frame

Save up to 56% ARZOPA’s digital picture frames and portable gaming monitors in time for the holidays

By Stan Horaczek