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A grey tabby cat with green eyes is lying on its side atop two concrete blocks. The cat has its head tilted and one paw raised near its face, appearing relaxed and content. In the background, there is green grass and plants slightly out of focus.

Ask Us Anything

Why do cats love concrete slabs? A vet explains.

By Laura Baisas

a robot rolling through subway

Robots in China are riding the subway to make 7-Eleven deliveries

By Mack DeGeurin

Roman tile art depicting two lovers with woman's backside blurred

Stolen during WWII, an erotic Roman mosaic returns home

a red meterorite from mars

Largest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3 million

By Laura Baisas

Illustration scroll for The Tale of Genji from Medieval Japan

College students digitized 795 poems from the world’s oldest novel

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. These observations show that hot minerals are beginning to solidify. In orange we see the distribution of carbon monoxide, blowing away from the star in a butterfly-shaped wind. In blue we see a narrow jet of silicon monoxide, also beaming away from the star. These gaseous winds and jets are common around baby stars like HOPS-315.

Space Telescope

For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a marine reptile with large fins and a beak swimming by several squid and one shark

Ichthyosaurs were silent assassins of Jurassic seas

By Lauren Leffer

TORONTO , ON- APRIL 11 - Pasta Buca .Detail of Su filindeu. David Marcelli of Buca makes pasta from scratch for The Star. April 11, 2018. (Rene Johnston/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The rarest pasta on earth is almost physically impossible to make

By Popular Science Team

A young girl sitting on a plane holds her hears in pain.

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Why do our ears pop on a plane? An audiologist explains.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

Medieval book opened to pages

A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved

Six Tesla electric cars burn on the trailer of the moving lorry carrying them after one of them catches on fire due to unknown reasons in Istanbul, Turkiye on October 06, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Gencebay Gur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Electric Vehicles

New lithium batteries have built-in fire extinguishers

a full moon rises over rusty-colored mountains

18 awesome images from the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

a person holds a turtle with piercing eyes

Endangered Species

World’s largest known turtle nesting site found in the Amazon

By Laura Baisas

Pitcher throwing cricket ball towards batter with catcher in background

What’s the safest helmet?

Anker charging bricks on a blue background

The only charging brick you’ll need for all your devices is 42% off right now at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

a person cracks an egg over a campfire into a skillet with red peppers

Ask Us Anything

Why does food by the campfire taste better?

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

Milwaukee M18 tool kits on a plain background

Get a free Milwaukee M12 tool worth up to $159 with purchase at The Home Depot

By Stan Horaczek

hand holding aluminum ion trap for atomic clock

World’s most accurate clock requires a 2-mile laser beam

Forensic science specialist work at a war crime scene investigation

When blood hits clothes, physics takes over

a larger shark and smaller one photographed from below near the surface

17 fascinating images from the 2025 Shark Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

a blue research vessel called the blue heron on water (left). a cup half full of black goo (right).

Mysterious ‘ship goo’ contains new life forms

By Lauren Leffer

Three Action Comics issues with Superman on cover

Yes, Superman’s kryptonite is (sort of) real

a drawing of ancient horse butchery

Medieval Hungarians kept eating horse meat, despite Christianity’s influence

By Laura Baisas

How to make sure your eSIM doesn’t get hacked

HDMI 2.2 is coming. Do you need to upgrade?

Two wheel DIY Fiat Panda fit between two regular sized cars

Man cuts Fiat down to 19.7-inch, mind-bending ride

several pots dating back 4,500 years on a table

Neolithic moms decorated baby carriers with dog teeth

The acoustic parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea and its host cricket.

This parasitic fly gives birth inside of crickets

By Laura Baisas

Solar panel station in Australian outback in front of mountains

Indigenous calendars could make solar power more efficient

a black cat sits in leaves

Pet cat helps discover a new virus

By Laura Baisas

blue face looks out as the edges fade

Ask Us Anything

How does your brain know something is real?

By Keith Wagstaff

A Blackstone pizza oven, Dyson vacuum, and Beautiful chair agaist a partly cloudly sky

40+ editor-approved deals worth checking out during Walmart’s big summer sale

By Stan Horaczek

DJI Mini 4K drone in front of a cloudy sky

Score a DJI Mini 4K drone for just $239 on Prime Day before it sells out

By Stan Horaczek

Image of a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur, Thescelosaurus during the latest Cretaceous Period, nearly 67 million years ago. These around 10-12 foot long two-legged animals roamed the tropical swamps, forests and floodplains where Denver now stands. Their vertebrae are similar to the one found in the rock core deep below the Museum.

Denver museum finds dinosaur bone under its parking lot

several small fish with colorful organa and blue scales

Orange male guppies are hornier

By Laura Baisas

plastic coyotes on robots

US Army deploys plastic coyotes attached to mini four-wheelers

By Mack DeGeurin

a team of greenland sled dog puppies with white fur pulls a sled

Oldest known dog breed reveals hidden human history

By Lauren Leffer

The XIX copy sculpture of an ancient Roman Emperor - Caligula - Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Mad emperor Caligula may have been a big plant guy

DeWalt tools on a gray background

This flash deal from The Home Depot has DeWalt power tools and kits for ridiculously low prices

By Stan Horaczek

a yellow crab on a beach

Endangered Species

Australia’s ghost crabs decapitate baby sea turtles

By Laura Baisas

Products under $30 that are on sale during Amazon's Prime Day Sale including sunscreen, Legos, and a drink tumbler

37 editor-approved Prime Day deals under $30

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Leatherman Free P2

I never leave the house without this Leatherman multitool and it’s 30% off for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Images of prehistoric multitool made from cave lion bone

Neanderthals made a ‘Swiss Army knife’ from cave lion bone

Bluetooth speakers on sale for Prime Day

Bother your neighbors with these editor-approved Prime Day deals on Bluetooth speakers

Beats headphones on a plain background on sale for Prime Day

Get Beats headphones with 2 years of AppleCare+ for as low as $94 during Amazon’s Prime Day Sale

By Stan Horaczek

These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion spacecraft, LICIACube, which flew past a few minutes after the impact and imaged the aftermath. The ejecta field consists of an asymmetric cone of dust that exhibits streamers and filaments, as well as over a hundred meter-sized boulders that were ejected in preferred directions.

Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders

By Laura Baisas

A pseudoscorpion from the genus Nipponogarypus in South Korea.

New pseudoscorpions with dragon-like jaws discovered in a South Korea cave

By Laura Baisas

General Phil Sheridan Memorial Civil War Statue Sheridan Circle Embassy Row Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC. Bronze statue dedicated in 1908; sculptor is Gutzon Borglum. Public monument owned by the National Park Service. Statue depicts Sheridan riding his horse Rienzi to rally his troops at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864.

The US Army is selling their horses

DJI Osmo Action 4 cameras on sale for Prime Day

DJI’s waterproof 4K action camera is just $199 for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Steven Spielberg, director of ‘Jaws,’ films the mechanical shark on set.

50 years of the ‘Jaws effect’

By Laura Baisas

Meta Quest 3S mixed reality headsets on sale for Prime Day

Escape reality with this Prime Day deal on the Meta Quest 3S VR headset

By Stan Horaczek

Burmese python on ground

Pythons can devour bones thanks to unique stomach cells

Kindle Paperwhite, Jackery solar generator, and PowerBeats Pro 2

19 of our editors’ favorite products are on sale during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Shipwreck bow covered in sea life underwater

Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales

Jackery portable power stations and solar generators on sale for Prime Day

These Prime Day deals on Jackery solar generators are better than Black Friday

By Stan Horaczek

Composite header for best value travel headphones Prime Day deal

These are the best budget travel headphone deals we’re found during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Masked boobies on Johnston Atoll

Pacific island wildlife refuge spared from SpaceX rocket project

baby elephant under mother in water

12 compelling wildlife photographs from BigPicture 2025

By Annie Colbert

Hands holding apple airtags on sale for prime day

We’re stocking up on Apple AirTags with this four-pack for just $63.71 at Amazon for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Get the ‘good ice’ for $200 off with this Prime Day deal on the GE Profile Opal nugget ice machine

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Three Amazon Kindle Paperwhite ereaders on a white background

The Kindle Paperwhite is our favorite e-reader and it’s down to just $124 during Prime Day

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Three black Fitbit Charge 6 fitness trackers on a white background

Get a Fitbit Charge 6 fitness tracker right now for just $99 during Prime Day

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Black Sonos Ace headphones and white Roam 2 speaker on a white background

Get Sonos Ace headphones at their lowest price ever for Amazon Prime Day

Two black and red NOCO portable jumpstarters on a white background

NOCO Boost jump starters are at their lowest price of the year for Prime Day

By Heather Kuldell-Ware