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a small orange frog sits on a pencil tip for scale

Teeny tiny orange toadlet found in Brazil

By Laura Baisas

hands-free driving inside a rivian vehicle

Electric Vehicles

Rivian announces AI chip in move towards self-driving future

By Kristin Shaw

Library aisle showing rows of books

Librarians can’t keep up with bad AI

Tesla made a $350 pickleball paddle

By Mack DeGeurin

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, Perkins County, South Dakota. The skull is largely complete with missing areas restored, while the lower jaw - not photographed - is reconstructed. This specimen is from the Department of Paleobiology collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Catalog record EZID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a8ba3bb9-dcf1-437e-ba8c-d627cbdfaf3c

A ‘spectacular’ dinosaur dome heads for the Smithsonian

Backpacks on sale at REI during the last minute holiday sale

REI last-minute holiday deals: Score clearance prices on backpacks, travel bags, and hiking packs

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of musician playing 3D printed carbon fiber cello

This 3D-printed cello puts a carbon fiber spin on a classic

a big group of oysters still in the shell

Pills, powders, and opioids stress out oyster babies

By Laura Baisas

a worm on a person's hand

A professor kept a pet worm for 20 years. It just set a record.

By Margherita Bassi

A large brown lizard, possibly a mother, is perched on a gray rock, eating a much smaller, lighter-colored juvenile lizard, which it holds in its mouth. The juvenile appears to be struggling or caught in the act.

Ask Us Anything

Why some animals eat their babies

By Andrew Coletti

Mosasaur eating prey in water with dinosaurs behind it

Mosasaurs may have terrorized rivers as well as oceans

close up of white lab rat inside cage

If offered, rats will use cannabis to deal with stress

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. This rendering does not have the new LightPort, but it will sit atop the lander in future models.

Wireless power grids head to the moon

By Mack DeGeurin

Rhesus macaque bones in Roman animal cemetery grave

Roman generals gifted kittens and piglets to their pet monkeys

several red and beige mushroom-like plants growing at the base of a tree

Asexual parasitic plants break biology’s rules

By Laura Baisas

A close-up, high-angle view of four biscotti pieces standing upright in a dark bowl, surrounding a small white cup filled with espresso topped with foam. The biscotti are thick, light brown, and contain visible chunks of nuts, dried fruit (possibly apricot or orange peel), and dark chocolate. A cinnamon stick is visible in the bottom right corner, and a glass of milk or cream is partially visible on the left. The background is a blurred light wooden surface.

Biscotti once fed Roman navies and Christopher Columbus’s expeditions

By Vittoria Traverso

Wolfbox car accessories

Wolfbox dropped the prices on its auto accessories by up to 30%: Save on dash cams, jump starters, and more

By Stan Horaczek

three lions yawning

19 hilarious and delightful Comedy Wildlife Photography Award winners

By Popular Science Team

Soyuz spacecraft returning to Earth using parachute

International Space Station

NASA astronaut comes home after circling Earth 3,920 times

Tumbleweed inspired robot next to actual tumbleweed

Tumbleweeds inspire this rolling, resilient robot

a wooden boat on display in a dark museum exhibit

Who built Scandinavia’s oldest wooden plank boat? An ancient fingerprint offers clues.

By Laura Baisas

Artist's impression of sparks from flint and pyrite

Neanderthals harnessed fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought

An astronaut in a white spacesuit floats in space above Earth, holding a handmade sign that reads “FOR SALE” in large pink letters. Reflections of space equipment and Earth are visible in the astronaut’s helmet visor, and part of a space shuttle is seen behind them with the blue curve of Earth in the background.

The space billboard that nearly happened

products on a page that says best of what's new 2025

Best of What's New

The 50 greatest innovations of 2025

By Popular Science Team

An assortment of EF ECOFLOW portable power stations on sale at Amazon

Save hundreds on EF ECOFLOW solar generators and portable power stations with this limited Amazon deal

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of Nazca booby bird

Female Galápagos birds flaunt their sexual partners. The males don’t seem to mind.

Polaroid I-Type camera with a print coming out

The latest Polaroid instant film camera is down to just $99 at Amazon making it a killer holiday gift

By Stan Horaczek

Underhammer 18th century pistol on table

Rare 19th century pistol used to rob Tulsa liquor store

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has endured for thousands of years.

Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

a gold coin with a ship and queen elizabeth i etched into it

Elizabethan era gold coin sold for record-breaking price

By Laura Baisas

An international team of researchers used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and XRISM, a JAXA-led mission with ESA participation, to uncover and study a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. The gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of roughly 37,282 miles (60,000 kilometers) per second.

Supermassive black hole belches 30,000-miles-per-second winds

By Laura Baisas

a man and woman wearing ororo heated gear with heated gloves

Amazon dropped Ororo’s heated jackets, vests, and gloves to prices lower than Black Friday

By Stan Horaczek

Electric plane flying over green mountains

Air New Zealand tests a new generation of electric planes

coins in a jug at an archaeologist dig

40,000 Roman-era coins discovered in French village

By Laura Baisas

Denman Glacier in Antarctica

Underwater robot survives voyage to ‘never-accessed region of the planet’

Artistic impression of Nova V1674 Herculis. Credit: The CHARA Array

Space Telescope

Pair of exploding stars baffle astronomers

white urinals separated by green plants

Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer

By Margherita Bassi

A young person bundled in a green winter jacket, gray knit hat, and blue gloves is standing outside in the snow. They are shivering, with their arms crossed tightly and a nervous or cold expression, with their tongue slightly visible.

Ask Us Anything

What is shivering? Why our bodies shake when it’s cold.

By Laura Kiniry

person holding a phone

You’re not making the most of the clipboard on your Android phone

Breville espresso and coffee machines

Upgrade your home espresso game with these holiday deals on Breville machines

By Stan Horaczek

a dead sperm whale floats among ice while a polar bear floats on the whale

5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year

By Popular Science Team

Endangered Species

German hairy snails are disappearing from London’s River Thames

By Margherita Bassi

A close-up, colorized photograph of a middle-aged man with a stern expression and a thick, reddish-brown beard. He is superimposed over a faded, beige background of densely printed, historical text, suggesting he is a figure related to the document's content, which appears to discuss Cattalo or Beefalo (a cow and buffalo hybrid), based on the filename.

The strange Wild West tale of the first cow-buffalo hybrid

By Bill Gourgey

This is a type of animal that is related to land spiders but does not belong to that group. They can grow to the size of a palm in the deep sea around Antarctica, but this particular species is only a few millimeters in size Photo: Natural History Museum, London & Göteborgs universitet

Deep sea mining test uncovered multiple new species

Inside the mouth of this anchovy, plankton particles are captured by the gill arch system.

Sardine-inspired washing machine filter removes 99% of microplastics

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument.

Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope caught a second glimpse of comet 3I/ATLAS

Endangered Species

Ruby the turtle needs a new greenhouse. Dance companies are stepping up.

By Laura Baisas

An old DC-6 cargo plane converted into lodging rests in the snow under a glowing aurora, its windows and engines illuminated against a dark, starry winter sky.

A pilot turned an old plane into a two-bedroom apartment

By Laura Kiniry

Close-up of the mass of rocks in the throat of Chromeornis (the rocks are the gray mass just to the left of the neck bones).

Why did this ancient bird die with tiny rocks in its throat?

two donkeys looking directly at the camera in a green field with a blue sky

Why using a donkey to treat whooping cough makes sense

By Laura Baisas

a robot dog with elon musk's face

Robot dog with Elon Musk’s head poops out AI generated art

By Mack DeGeurin

Frog eating hornet in cage

Pond frogs devour murder hornets, stinger and all

several full fish laying on ice. the fish are orange, white, and multicolored

Afraid your fish is too fishy? Smart sensors might save your nose

By Mack DeGeurin

Jackets on sale at REI

REI is blowing out coats, jackets, and tons more clothing for clearance prices during its winter sale

By Stan Horaczek

Photograph of the fresco Trionfo della Morte, taken at its original location in the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. The fresco, known as the “Triumph of Death” and attributed to the painter Buonamico Buffalmacco, is not precisely dated; scholarly estimates range from 1335 to 1350. While it does not depict the Black Death explicitly, the selected detail shows victims of an epidemic from diverse social backgrounds, their souls carried off by demons.

Medieval volcanoes may have ignited the Black Death

A macro, close-up photograph of the bottom of a human nose, clearly showing the two nostrils and the texture of the surrounding skin. The eyes are closed in the background.

Ask Us Anything

Why we have two nostrils instead of one big hole

By Sarah Philip

Arm in noninvasive glucose monitoring device

Goodbye, finger pricks? Diabetes patients could monitor glucose with lightwaves.

Nov. 19 image obtained by Pau Montplet from Breda (Girona) using a C6 telescope at f:7. Original image is in the lower right inset, while a false color 0.6º wide Larson-Sekanina filtered image at 9º shows 3I in negative to remark the antitail pointing to the subsolar point, and several jets getting out from the false nucleus. Two additional arrows mark wavy structures in the jets. Image resolution is 0.7 arcsec/pix. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.19112

Infamous 3I/ATLAS comet is covered in ice volcanoes, surprising astronomers

a mom and daughter camping with their dog. a tall mountain is in the foreground

Pet dogs can help teens’ mental health

By Laura Baisas

Close up of young rhesus macaque monkey eating peanut

Escaped lab monkey finds new home at New Jersey animal sanctuary

close up of a cow in a pen, chewing dry grass

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Vintage vaccine skeptics thought medicine would turn kids into demon cows

By Popular Science Team

A dramatic, low-light photo of a person with dark skin against a blue background, experiencing intense distress or pain. They are clenching their jaw and holding their hands to the sides of their head, with blurred motion around their head suggesting movement, panic, or disorientation.

What happens to your body during a panic attack?

1804 dollar seen from the front and back of the coin.

A long lost silver dollar may be worth $5 million

Martian landscape taken by rover

How to tell time on Mars