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a weedy seadragon swimming. they have long snouts and raised backs

Weedy seadragons in the running for nature’s best dads

By Margherita Bassi

Starving bacteria (cyan) use a microscopic harpoon—called the Type VI secretion system—to stab and kill neighboring cells (magenta).

Bacteria will turn to murder if they get hungry enough

a baby skunk is held by a person wearing blue latex gloves

Rescued baby skunks enjoy a good song

By Margherita Bassi

yellow robot hand

Researchers create most human-like robot skin yet

By Mack DeGeurin

EGO battery-powered yard tools

Amazon has EGO battery-powered yard tools for their cheapest prices of the season

By Stan Horaczek

Quantum Random Number Generator machine

Here’s how to generate a truly random number with quantum physics

Two archeologists surveying site in Turkey

Archaeologists uncover royal tomb tied to the real King Midas

a male river otter standing on snow

Escaped river otter takes his destiny into his own (tiny) hands

By Margherita Bassi

an adult osprey looks on as the heads of three chicks pop out over a nest

Three osprey chicks hatch in 500-pound steel nest boxes

By Laura Baisas

Happy smiling little boy out in the rain

Ask Us Anything

The science behind the smell of rain

European Gray Wolf Cubs in a Grass in a Spring Day

Two Ice Age ‘puppies’ weren’t exactly dogs

A loving father of African descent sits on the couch at home and reads a storybook to his preschool age daughter. The child is sitting on her father's lap and is smiling while looking at the book.

Why do kids love reading the same book over and over? Child development experts explain.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

a small white dog standing on grey sheets looks up

The 6 dog breeds more prone to diarrhea, according to new study

By Laura Baisas

Thrush songbird

Ancient Romans snacked on deep-fried songbirds

group of iphones

The 14 best new features coming to iOS 26 and macOS 26

Gold coins scattered on ocean floor

Gold coins confirm ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ is 18th century Spanish galleon

Examples of the pig molar teeth specimens analyzed for a study on pig domestication.

Wild boars began shrinking down to domesticated pigs 8,000 years ago

By Laura Baisas

Winning products from the 2025 Popular Science Home of the Future awards

2025 Home of the Future Awards: 25 products that’ll improve your everyday life

By Stan Horaczek

$The fracture of BG1.12 is shown in various views (A–F). The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone (G). Credit: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/oa.3415$

Ancient cone-shaped skull shows signs of fatal trauma

Shokz OpenRun Pro bone conduction headphones on sale at Amazon

The best bone conduction headphones for working out are cheaper than ever at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

Hammerhead shark in water

Osprey drops hammerhead shark onto disc golf field

Gonatus Antarcticus squid seen underwater

Watch the mesmerizing first-ever footage of a rare Antarctic squid

clouds in a blue sky

Ask Us Anything

How do clouds get their shapes?

By Clarissa Brincat

12/11/24 - BOSTON, MA. - Northeastern chair and professor of biology James Monaghan works with axolotls in his lab in the Mugar Life Sciences on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.

A chemical in acne medicine can help regenerate limbs

By Lauren Leffer

Viking boat grave burial near road in Norway

Viking woman buried in ceremonial boat with her dog

Darvaza (Derweze) gas crater (Door to Hell or Gates of Hell) in Turkmenistan

Earth’s fiery ‘Door to Hell’ is starting to close

iphone lock screen

New iPhone trick puts your favorite chat on the lock screen

Meta Quest 3S VR headsets in a row on sale at Walmart

The Meta Quest 3S headset is cheaper than ever at Walmart and it includes a free Batman game

By Stan Horaczek

Lab grown salmon on sushi rice on a plate

FDA approves lab-grown salmon

Artist_impression_of_sarupod

Paleontologists dig through fossilized dino guts to see what’s inside

By Laura Baisas

Human brain going through translucent multi colored discs blue background

What happens when our brain goes blank

By RJ Mackenzie

a solar power device in a field

How a 1,200-person village in Senegal traded diesel generators for solar power

By Kristin Shaw

hand holding a phone

How to take photos on your phone via remote control

Shipwreck in the Bay of Pigs

What to do if you find a shipwreck

Smoke rises from the Morning Midas.

Electric Vehicles

An abandoned ship full of EVs is burning in the Pacific

By Mack DeGeurin

fuzzy, orange-ish rodent in a person gloved hand

A baby porcupine is fluffier than you’d imagine

By Margherita Bassi

Ray-Bans Meta glasses with black, green, and clear lenses on sale at Amazon

Replace your sunglasses with this rare deal on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses during this rare Amazon deal

By Stan Horaczek

a vechile in a field

This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns

By Mack DeGeurin

Side view of a two-seat, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter fighter plane on an airfield during World War I, mid to late 1910s. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight.

By Margherita Bassi

a red diamond on a dark backgorund

That’s no ruby. It’s an extremely rare red diamond.

By Laura Baisas

a blue fish with a pointy face in a california kelp forest

Q&A with the team behind ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of medieval English fair

Medieval cold case is a salacious tale of sex, power, and mayhem

two yawning robot heads and a chimp

Chimpanzees ‘caught a yawn’ from this robot and researchers aren’t sure why

By Mack DeGeurin

Three Garmin devices on a white background

Help Dad save his metrics while you save money during Garmin’s Father’s Day sale

ESA's Flyeye telescope at first light test outside

Space Telescope

Bug-eyed telescope ready to find Earth-smashing asteroids

an image taken with a microscope that shows a fruit fly approaching a tower made of tiny roundworms

Worm towers are all around us

By Lauren Leffer

an illustration of an extinct marsupial with brown and white fur and a small trunk-like nose

Australia’s giant extinct marsupials may be ID’d using tiny bone bits

new york city skyline

In a world without people, how fast would NYC fall apart? Here’s the timeline.

Dead coral sit on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, on September 23, 2021. The coral is very gray and white

Probiotics can help heal ravaged coral reefs

By Laura Baisas

An unlucky massive star approaches a supermassive black hole

Astronomers detect most powerful explosions since Big Bang

Part of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. From Qumran (Khirbet Qumran or Wadi Qumran), West Bank of the Jordan River, near the Dead Sea, modern-day State of Israel. The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan Hashimite Kingdom.

Dead Sea Scrolls possibly even older than scholars thought

People wearing Carhartt Force t-shirts and a Carhartt Force sweatshirt

Stock up on Carhartt Force T-shirts, shorts, pants, and hoodies with sun protection during this rare Amazon sale

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of white cockatoo

Wild cockatoos are learning how to use water fountains

a small rod-shaped bacteria seen under a microscope. several individual bacterium are moving along a blue surface

Watch bacteria ‘hitchhike’ and zoom around

By Laura Baisas

A female Anopheles mosquito is sitting on a green vine of the forest a

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

By Laura Baisas

birch bark with drawings on it

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

A 13th-century schoolboy’s doodles show that kids have always been like that

By Popular Science Team

Well-preserved dinosaur skull belongs to new sauropod species

Nanoscale violin etching seen in microscope

The world’s smallest violin is thinner than a human hair

The North Face hiking shorts and Thermoball jacket

REI is clearing out last season’s The North Face hoodies, jackets, and other clothes up to half-off

By Stan Horaczek

Composite banner image for Best Father's Day Gifts 2025

The best last-minute Father’s Day gifts for 2025, according to actual dads

By Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware

Close up of gold pocket watch

Pocket watch from Great Lakes’ deadliest shipwreck returned to family

a female student with gloves on working with fungi in a lab

College student discovers mysterious fungus that eluded LSD’s inventor

By Laura Baisas

a blimp attached to a bus with a person holding a rope

19 vintage Goodyear Blimp photos on its 100th anniversary

By Popular Science Team

orange and yellow flames on a black background

Can humans spontaneously combust? The baffling cases explained.

By Lauren Leffer