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Beats Solo Buds arranged in a pattern against a cloudy sky

Go grab these Beats wireless earbuds for $39 before they sell out during Walmart’s early Black Friday sale

By Stan Horaczek

a catering table set up with large plates of food

Gastronomists study 100 years of menus to reveal food’s political power

By Laura Baisas

two black whales under water. one is diving down the other is looking at a camera head on

Hawaii’s short-finned pilot whales eat over 77,000 squid a year

By Laura Baisas

A bunch of Mineral White LS50 Wireless II speakers pairs on a background

Save $500, even $1,000 on big audio upgrades during the KEF Holiday Savings Event

male hands holding an open wallet

The new iPhone feature that could make wallets obsolete

By Mack DeGeurin

Microrobot capsule on tip of finger close up

These tiny robots swim through your blood to fight strokes

Glass openwork vessel excavated at Cologne dating to around 350–400 CE with an image of an inscription on the right. Inscription: BIBE MVLTIS ANNIS (Drink [may you live] for many years!). Credit: State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptothek, Munich. Photos by Christa Koppermann

Ancient Rome’s fanciest glasses are full of cryptic symbols

This artist’s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers managed to capture the very early stage of the supernova when the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Observing the breakout so early on — 26 hours after the supernova was first detected — revealed its true shape. The supernova broke out in an olive-like form. This marks the first ever observation of the shape of a supernova explosion at this very early stage.

Space Telescope

Newborn supernova spotted only hours after its explosive birth

Pin, Blue, and Yellow Ninja Crispi air fryers on a green background

The Ninja Crispi air fryer we use all the time is on sale for Amazon Early Black Friday

man holding a radio shouting 'what is human composting'

Ask Us Anything

What is human composting?

By Popular Science Team

Philly’s ‘transit vigilante’ created a real-time bus tracker for his neighbors

By Laura Kiniry

JBL Party speaker sitting on a patio having a karaoke party

Get a JBL party speaker at its lowest price in months during Amazon’s Early Black Friday sale

De'Longhi espresso machine deals black Friday

Save up to $500 off De’Longhi espresso machines and coffee makers during Amazon’s early Black Friday sale

By Stan Horaczek

man holding a radio yelling 'why do we get goosebumps'

Ask Us Anything

Why do we get goosebumps?

By Popular Science Team

Close up of Egyptian ceramic vessel with inscriptions

Opium may have been a daily habit for Ancient Egyptians

This artist’s impression shows a coronal mass ejection (CME) around another star.

A star unleashed a planet-destroying flare

hands holding forensic evidence slip in front of moss

Moss can be a key witness in murder investigations

Sperm whales swimming in clear water

Sperm whales use vowels like humans, new study finds

By Laura Baisas

A fluffy orange and white cat is curled up and lounging inside a small, low-sided cardboard box that is lying on a wooden floor, looking directly at the viewer with a relaxed expression.

Why do cats love boxes? Evolution has an answer.

By RJ Mackenzie

Apple watches on sale at Amazon

Get an Apple Watch for as low as $159 during Amazon’s early Black Friday deal

By Stan Horaczek

a teenage boy holds a robotic hand made out of legosUniversity of Bristol/Jared Lepora

Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

By Margherita Bassi

person petting a turtle

Endangered Species

Trafficked turtles get a second chance at life in New Jersey sanctuary

By Laura Baisas

A blue Bird Buddy bird feeder mounted to a post on a front porch.

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Swedish silver medieval coins in a pile

Fisherman searching for worms finds 20,000 medieval silver coins

Ride1up Revv 1 bike ridden next to a running dog

Get an ebike to fit your ride style and budget with Ride1Up’s Early Black Friday deals

An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor.

What octopus camouflage has to do with sunscreen

By Margherita Bassi

Comet 3I/ATLAS streaks across a dense star field in this image captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated by NSF NOIRLab. This image is composed of exposures taken through four filters — red, green, blue and ultraviolet. As exposures are taken, the comet remains fixed in the center of the telescope’s field of view. However, the positions of the background stars change relative to the comet, causing them to appear as colorful streaks in the final image. See a version of the image where the stars have been “frozen” here. These observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS were conducted during a Shadow the Scientists program hosted by NSF NOIRLab. A full recording of the session can be found here.

3I/Atlas isn’t deep space aliens and didn’t ‘change color’

a sunrise over a desert landscape

13 perfect panoramic images from the 2025 Epson International Pano awards

By Popular Science Team

screenshot of google photos

How to back up all your photos and videos to Google Photos

an orange car parked in a black room

For sale: Batmobile, John Wick’s Mustang, and more Hollywood cars

By Kristin Shaw

AI created video of bunnies on a trampoline

AI videos of animals could be dangerous. Here’s how to spot them.

By Margherita Bassi

A historical color photograph of the large Great Lakes freighter, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, sailing on the water. The ship has a prominent white superstructure at the bow with a dark red hull and a tan smokestack near the stern emitting a plume of black smoke. The weather appears overcast.

How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’

By Bill Gourgey

man sleeping with mouth open

4 common sleep myths, debunked

R2-D2 is seen with Star Wars BDX Droids backstage during Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

Bird or droid? Starlings nail R2-D2 beeps and boops.

By Mack DeGeurin

Dark lines of discolored dust on slopes of Martian mountain

On Mars, meteorites can cause miles-long dust slides

Neural implant sensor resting on grain of salt

This brain implant is smaller than a grain of rice

Outdoor Research, The North Face, Smartwool gloves on a snowy background on sale at REI

REI is blowing out winter gloves from The North Face, OR, Smartwool, Fox and more for clearance prices

By Stan Horaczek

Various angles of fragmented human skull

Medieval duke’s remains recount his grisly murder

Ask Us Anything

How squirrels actually find all their buried nuts

By Jennifer Byrne

a winter outlook map of the united states for 2025-2026

The ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ says goodbye after 208 years

By Laura Baisas

a woodpecker with black white and a little bit of red plumage on a tree

Woodpeckers grunt like tennis players

By Laura Baisas

Close up of tree toad

Endangered Species

These toads don’t start as tadpoles

Artist illustration of two ESCAPADE satellites orbiting Mars

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

Fragment of a Roman milestone erected along the road Via Nova in Jordan. Credit: Adam Pažout, Itiner-e.

Travel ancient Rome’s 186,000 miles of roads in new online atlas

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Bret Saalwaechter Tracy United States Title: I Just Can't Wait To Be King Description: While photographing a pride of lions in the Serengeti, I watched as a group of cubs channeled their innter toddler tantrum, relentlessly demanding milk and attention from their mother, much to the exasperation of the adult lions. Life in the dry season is no picnic—lions are anxiously waiting for the Great Migration and the feast it promises—but it makes for some incredible wildlife behavior and these cubs were the stars of the show. For over an hour, they followed their mother around a famous Serengeti kopje—those iconic rocky outcrops that dot the landscape—alternating between trying to suckle and play. Each time the mother, already in a foul mood from the sweltering heat, would give a quick roar of disapproval and escape the circus. But the cubs, like any persistent little ones, would chase her down, nipping at her and yelping for more attention. This back-and-forth drama played out again and again, until I captured the perfect moment: the entire pride, in perfect unison, seemed to say, “Not this again!” Animal: Lion Location of shot: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

14 hilarious finalists from the 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

A close-up view of the back of a person's head, showing a receding hairline and a circular patch of thinning hair or male pattern baldness on the crown, surrounded by short, gray and brown hair. The background is pure white.

3 hair loss myths you probably believe

By Clarissa Brincat

Video screenshot of remoras attached to humpback whale

Ride on a humpback whale with little sucker fish

A warning sign is seen at the closed walking trail to the observatory in the Shirakawago district, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Japan deploys army to fight bears

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The Home Depot’s early Black Friday Ryobi sale: Get two batteries and a power tool for just $99

By Stan Horaczek

V0015163ER Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person whil Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Two hooded figures and a King grieve over a dead person while another masked figure comes to cleanse the room of the plague. Woodcut by V. Solis. Published: - Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem

Playful young woman hiding face under blanket while lying in cozy bed, pretty curious girl feeling shy peeking from duvet, covering with white sheet, head shot close up. Top view

4 research-backed ways to beat the winter blues in the colder months

By Gio Dolcecore / The Conversation

hermit crab with pink creature on its head

New species looks like a fuzzy pink hermit crab wig

By Laura Baisas

a latte in space

Why some scientists say our universe is Sad Millennial Beige

By Popular Science Team

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the distant black hole referred to as J2245+3743, which in 2018, brightened dramatically to create the brightest black hole flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns. This is likely the most massive star-shredding event (formally called a tidal disruption event or TDE) ever observed and one of only a few to have occurred in an active galactic nucleus (AGN), which is an active supermassive black hole "feeding" off material in a surrounding disk. The stunning flare was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), based at Caltech's Palomar Observatory, and the Caltech-led Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey.

Black hole unleashes brightest flare ever—brighter than 10 trillion suns

Seized ivory and rhino tusks photographed by law enforcement

Endangered Species

Endangered rhino horns and elephant tusks seized in California

rotten eggs with black and white fuzzy mold on them

Stinky ‘rotten egg’ gas could fight nail infections

By Laura Baisas

A close-up photo of some dandelions, but the image is slightly distorted by digital artefacts.

Why we (probably) aren’t living in a computer simulation

a bird with white and gray plummage

Rare seabird saved after swallowing four large fishhooks

By Laura Baisas

A person's lower legs and feet, wearing thick, gray fuzzy socks, are stretched out against a clean white duvet or sheet. The image is bright and minimal, suggesting a cozy, relaxed moment in bed.

Ask Us Anything

Do you need more sleep in fall and winter? Probably.

By Laura Kiniry

A Vivid ORange Hetbike Mars 3.0 sitting on green grass

Heybike Mars 3.0 review: The folding e-bike built for adventure

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

a full moon rises over the ocean

Brightest supermoon of 2025 lights up the sky this week

By Laura Baisas

Skeleton in grave in Iron Age Celtic tribe

Celtic women held power—and were sacrificed

P. Mikazuki Portuguese Man O'War

Portuguese Man O’War species honors ‘One-Eyed Dragon’ samurai

several boys sit around a tribal drum

Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language

By Margherita Bassi