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a fly with green and black coloring lands on a green leaf

Surgical tools could get a bug-inspired upgrade

By Laura Baisas

a set of billiard balls on a pool table

How billiard balls led to plastic everywhere

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

Melbourne, Australia - Oct 13, 2022: Wide angle macro shot of browsing content on streaming services in smart TV using remote control, shot with macro probe lens

California turns down the volume on streaming ads

Products on sale during Amazon Prime Day

70+ hand-picked October Prime Day deals you should shop right now: Tools, electronics, home goods, and more

By Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - food products manufactured by Mondelez and Coca-Cola

What are ultra-processed foods and are they bad for me?

By Katie Navarra Bradley

Prime Day tool deals

These are the best Prime Day deals on power tools this year

By Stan Horaczek

Sonos Beam soundbar

Get a Sonos soundbar or headphones for their lowest price of the year during Amazon Prime Day

Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones

Stock up on Sennheiser’s affordable audiophile accessories before Amazon’s Prime Day sale ends

Bose headphones, speaker, earbuds

The most popular Bose headphones and speakers are at their lowest prices of the year for Prime Day

Ego chainsaw on sale for Prime Day

Amazon is clearing out Ego battery-powered yard tools during its Prime Big Deal Days sale

By Stan Horaczek

Front and rear view of small porcelain crab

Newly discovered deep-sea lanternshark glows in the waters near Australia

Karnak Temple next to the Nile River and palm trees

Vast ancient Egyptian temple dated to Old Kingdom

A stream of plasma moves from the sun toward Earth. On its way, the plasma hits four, square spacecraft, which are arranged in a triangular-pyramid formation. The spacecraft closest to the sun is in the center of a large, aluminum sail.

Earth has a space tornado problem

Man hand holding Apple iPhone 13 with Apple Pay on the screen and POS pay pass online terminal.

Annoyed by tap-to-pay? Try shaking your credit card.

By Mack DeGeurin

a collage of several rare coins and bank notes

A rare coin treasure hunt kicks off in 4 American cities

By Laura Baisas

A small, light blue vintage box of TAMPAX tampons is shown resting on a white surface. The box has blue text that reads "Sanitary Protection + Worn Internally," "TAMPAX," and "Accepted for Advertising by The American Medical Association." A single tampon, wrapped in paper and plastic, leans against the box.

How WWI and WWII revolutionized period products

By Cat Rainsford

a black and white photo of a ship leaning on its side in sea ice

Ernest Shackleton knew ‘Endurance’ had shortcomings, new study says

By Laura Baisas

Early Prime Day deals header airpods

Amazon Prime Day is happening now and these 100+ deals are worth checking out

By Stan Horaczek

Illustration of rogue planet forming surrounded by disc of gas and dust

Rogue planet is gobbling up 6.6 billion tons of dust per second

a bird with aqua green feathers and red feathers that look like cheeks

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species

By Margherita Bassi

ecovacs robot cleaners

These Ecovacs robot vacuums are already up to 53% off for Amazon Prime Big Deal Days

By Stan Horaczek

How to use iOS 26’s new battery saving mode

A vintage photo collage featuring a man in a shirt and tie, intensely focused while looking into the eyepiece of a microscope. The image is overlaid on yellowed old text, likely a magazine or newspaper clipping, with blurred headlines visible in the background.

How a hatter and railroad clerk kickstarted cancer research

By Bill Gourgey

a purple octopus on the bottom of the ocean

13 inspiring photos of thriving deep-sea animals

By Popular Science Team

Lower back stretch header

Fitness & Exercise

5 low back stretches to relieve aches and pains

By Jordan Burchette

two images of a person in a city, one with a bus and one without

Google’s latest AI photo-editing tool means you might not need Photoshop

Scientist drilling permafrost core sample in Arctic tunnel

Researchers are reanimating 40,000-year-old microbes

OSAKA, JP - APRIL 7 - Dotonbori at night Asahi super dry beer led screen building facade on April 7, 2017 in Osaka, Japan.

Japan’s favorite beer is in peril

a side by side image of a blue container of white yogurt on the left and two ants on a log on the right

Ants can be used to make ‘tangy’ yogurt

By Laura Baisas

A Roomba 104 running in a house against a wall.

Amazon is blowing out iRobot Roomba vacuums for as low as $149 with these early Prime Day deals

By Stan Horaczek

Artifacts found while Dr. Kathleen Martínez searches for Cleopatra's tomb.

The search for Cleopatra’s long-lost tomb leads to sunken seaport

By Laura Baisas

Close up view of bearded vulture

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

interior of plane with large screens on side

Luxury jet replaces cabin windows with video screens

By Mack DeGeurin

Empty dentist office showing tools and chair

Extreme fear of the dentist linked to childhood trauma

Worker in a protective suit with a chainsaw sawing wood.

The safest way to use a chainsaw, according to science

an iphone with apps

iOS 26 adds a new app to your iPhone. Here’s how to use it.

a heat pump system outside of a yellow house. it is a gray box with a fan inside and white piping

Swap your boiler for a money-saving heat pump

By Sara Kiley Watson

Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This rare galaxy cluster, located 10 billion light-years from Earth, is almost as massive as 500 trillion suns.

Scientists predict the universe will end in ‘big crunch’

Woman's hand about to decline an unknown caller on her smartphone

Americans receive the most scam calls in the world

an older couple holding hands as the sun sets

Women really do live longer than men. Here’s why.

By Laura Baisas

Amazon Kindle Scribe, Kids, and Paperwhite on a gray background

Amazon is clearing out its most popular Kindle eReaders with these early Prime Day deals

By Stan Horaczek

A reconstruction of Breugnathair elgolensis

Cat-sized Jurassic reptile had the jaws of a python

a station wagon in a driveway

A life-long car lover recreated the Griswold’s famous station wagon

By Laura Baisas

A colorized vintage advertisement featuring two smiling World War II-era pilots, both in flight suits. The pilot on the left is holding up a box of Milky Way candy bars, and the pilot on the right, who is leaning out of a plane cockpit, is looking down and smiling at the box.

How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings

By Diana Hubbell

Breville smart oven and espresso machines

Breville early Amazon Prime Day deals: Treat yourself to a high-end espresso machine or smart oven

By Stan Horaczek

Pippistrellus etula bat on tree branch

1,500th discovered bat species is a ‘god of the island’

P-2 Neptune airplane remains in aircraft boneyard

Buy a vintage military airplane for $25

sea sponge among coral underwater

Sea sponges may have been Earth’s first living creatures

Composite drone photograph of the large panel at Jebel Misma. The engravings are traced to show 19 life-sized camels and 3 equids. Naturalistic animals belonging to the middle phase are traced in white. The more stylized and standardized depictions of the later phase traced in blue. Unidentified lines traced in black.

Camels depicted in 12,000-year-old rock art

By Laura Baisas

a comet with a green-ish tail streaking through a starry sky

October Stargazing: A supermoon, new comet, and a whole lot of meteors

An assortment of Garmin smartwatches on sale at Amazon.

Garmin fitness trackers and smartwatches are up to 45% off during Amazon’s early Prime Day deals

By Stan Horaczek

a venus fly trap closes on a fly.

Venus fly traps’ death-grip trigger discovered

By Laura Baisas

group of king penguins emerging from the ocean on a cloudy day

15 gorgeous images from the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Samsonite suitcases and leather backpacks on sale at Amazon

Amazon is blowing out Samsonite luggage, backapacks, and accessories for ridiculously low prices before Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

a toilet in the woods, covered by wooden panels

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet could replace stinky porta-potties

By Margherita Bassi

a new broccoli growing

New broccoli hybrid can thrive in colder climates

By Laura Baisas

older man stands with five droids in a workshop

Lifelong Star Wars fan builds the droids of his childhood dreams

Several starfish hang out on a cream-colored piece of discarded metal under the sea.

Sunken WWII bombs make a surprising home for sea life

Schimpanse Chimpanzee Pan t. troglodytes Adult weiblich female mit Jungtieren with youngs spielend playing Vorkommen: Africa Afrika

Wild chimps consume the equivalent of two glasses of wine a day

By Margherita Bassi

A colorized vintage photo shows a smiling blonde woman in a salmon-colored dress waving her hand while seated at a dark wooden counter or bar. Two men in white staff uniforms and hats are leaning over the counter, laughing with her, one of whom is holding a cigar. The other offers her a drink in a tall glass. Several other men in hats are visible in the background.

The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

The silver-and-black EcoFlow Delta 3 Max Plus and Ultra Plus portable power stations sitting next to one another in a storage unit

EcoFlow DELTA 3 portable power station series first impressions: More power, more versatile

William Byron drives the Hendrick Motorsports’ No. 24 Chevrolet at the Sonoma Raceway

When the wheels come off: Lessons from Sonoma on racing, resilience, and engine oil

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

washing machine with laundry tumbling out

You should wash your clothes with cold water

Video still of bipedal robot doing cartwheel in lab

This humanoid robot can cartwheel surprisingly well