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A black Unistellar Odyssey Pro smart telescope Alt-Azimuth-mounted on a tripod in a field in Florida

Unistellar Odyssey Pro smart telescope review: Approachable in every way but the price

By Abby Ferguson

a dead fish being dragged on artificial turf

Dragging dead fish around reveals super power of mucus

By Ethan Freedman

an apple calendar open on an iphone

11 tips to get more out of Apple Calendar

Facial regenerative treatment by LED mask applied to a young woman.

Do LED masks work? What the science says.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

Microscopic Lego bricks on pinhead next to human hair

The world’s smallest handmade sculpture is a blood cell-sized Lego brick

two baby eagles tended to by their parent

The famous bald eagle nest live cam is back and we have 3 baby eaglets

By Laura Baisas

Skull in CT scanner

Viking mouths were a painful mess

Red tomatoes with googly eyes on yellow background

Scientists finally figured out why tomatoes don’t kill you

two side by side illustrations. on the left, a man with a red background sweating next to a thermometer with a high temperature. on the right, a man with a blue background shivering next to a thermometer with a lower temperature

What is ‘feels-like’ temperature? A meteorologist explains.

By Laura Baisas

South American sea lion comes in for a boop in the Falklands

15 breathtaking images from the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 awards

By Popular Science Team

ALLENTOWN, PA - MAY 09: Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game between the Memphis Redbirds and Lehigh Valley IronPigs at Coca-Cola Park on May 9, 2023 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Automated Balls and Strikes system, similar to the Hawk-Eye system used in professional tennis, uses over 30 cameras and sensors around the stadium to identifies weather the pitch is a ball or a strike. MLB is testing the system for possible use next year. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)

This could be baseball’s last season without ‘robot umpires’

By Mack DeGeurin

Aerial view of Great Wall of China surrounded by forests

The Great Wall of China is 300 years older than we thought

Majorana 1 quantum computing chip

New state of matter powers Microsoft quantum computing chip

a large bird with a long neck and black plumage called an emu walking around in nature

Emus might not be the ‘world’s dumbest bird’ after all

By Laura Baisas

How to get Gemini to remember (or forget) everything you’ve said

View of fog at the Atacama desert in Iquique, some 2000 km north of Santiago, on April 19, 2016. Catholic University of Chile researchers' challenge is to implement a fog collection system -which uses large pieces of vertical canvas to make the fog condense into droplets- in small communities which don't have drinkable water in Atacama desert. / AFP / MARTIN BERNETTI (Photo credit should read MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

In the driest place on Earth, water hides in plain sight

By Lauren Leffer

a map of the world with a line representing where the cable would connect

Meta spending billions on world’s longest subsea internet cable

By Mack DeGeurin

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

Egyptian relief artwork of Thutmose II

Pharaoh’s tomb is the biggest ancient Egyptian discovery since King Tutankhamun

an illustration of two orchids and their root systems. one is growing near decomposing wood and fungi and has more flowers. the other is still growing, but does not have as many flowers

Parasitic orchids ditch photosynthesis for fungi

By Laura Baisas

Young woman yawning, close up

Ask Us Anything

Why do some people need less sleep?

By Clarissa Brincat

a close up of a diver wearing a mask and a fish swimming towards him

Wild fish can recognize human divers

By Laura Baisas

Close up of police officer chest wearing Axon body camera

Utah bill would require cops to disclose AI-authored police reports

Model Muriel Maxwell in white sunglasses putting on lipstick, wearing red-white-and-blue turban, andv holding a red-and-white striped bag *** Local Caption ***

The evolution of sunglasses from science to style (and back again)

Artwork depicting 16th century bear baiting match

Gruesome bear fights once entertained Elizabethan England

a large orange circle surrounded by a blue square

Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

By Laura Baisas

blank youtube screen on red background

How to reset the YouTube algorithm

Levoit top-fill humidifier on a table with steam coming out

If your eyes and sinuses feel dry right now, you need this $29 Levoit humidifier in your home

By Stan Horaczek

an illustration of an extinct big cat about the size of a leopard. it is brown with sharp teeth

Skull of a 30-million-year-old apex predator discovered in Egypt

By Laura Baisas

a factory worker works on factory link assembling a car engine

Electric Vehicles

Honda’s special welding method is transforming its car manufacturing

By Kristin Shaw

emergency backpack with supplies

Prepping isn’t just for preppers anymore—it’s time to get a go-bag

By Athena Aktipis

Do face rollers work? We asked a dermatologist.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

screenshot of an email inbox

How to use Apple Intelligence to sort your emails

lush green tropical rainforest in Brazil. Mata Atlantica

Man from uncontacted tribe emerges from rainforest, signals to villagers

africa and the middle east seen from space

New theory ups the odds that intelligent aliens exist

By Lauren Leffer

Inventor demonstrating modified trumpet invention

The 10 coolest musical instruments you’ll see in 2025

a cuttlefish swimming in the ocean

Cuttlefish ink can help keep sharks away from humans

By Laura Baisas

Valentine’s Day 1946: The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms

Valentine’s Day 1946: The first general-purpose electronic computer blossoms

By Bill Gourgey

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Captain America in Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Could we really make Captain America’s shield? A materials scientist weighs in.

By Laura Baisas

A selection of the mummified bodies in the exhibition area of the Egyptian museum in Cairo.

What do Egyptian mummies smell like? Surprisingly pleasant.

a seal with grey coloring wearing an orange heart rate monitor around its abdomen

Baby seals are wearing heart monitors–for science

By Laura Baisas

Cut and impact marks indicating cannibalism on various human parts of the skeleton from the Maszycka Cave.

Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals

one jaw fossil and six vertebrae fossils lined up

500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole

By Laura Baisas

Once considered vestigial, the appendix may play an essential role in gut health.

Ask Us Anything

Which body parts do humans not need?

By Julia Craven

HEGER Brock (usa), Polaris, Sébastien Loeb Racing - RZR Factory Racing, SSV T4, portrait during the Stage 9 of the Dakar 2025 on January 14, 2025 between Riyadh and Haradh, Saudi Arabia - Photo Frédéric Le Floc'h / DPPI

A promising rookie takes on the world’s most grueling off-road race

ROV screenshot of OceanGate Titan wreckage tail section

Listen to chilling underwater audio of the OceanGate ‘Titan’ implosion

Genetically modified zebrafish and fruit flies munch on mercury to make it less toxic

By Mack DeGeurin

Macaques show signs of grasping the abstract notions of language in a lab setting.

Macaques appear to associate spoken words with pictures

Dog wearing eye tracking goggles

Dog goggles help scientists learn how to best get their attention

Researchers used a combination of nontoxic water, sodium acetate, sodium iodide, and hypophosphorous acid to recycle a solar cell.

How water could make future solar cells recyclable

By Mack DeGeurin

Illustration: View from inside a detector building block of detection units. Clearly visible the yellow buoy of a near by detection unit.

Particle Physics

Scientists announce the highest-energy neutrino ever detected

a turtle peeks its head out of the water

These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack

By Laura Baisas

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey players all sound Canadian

By Popular Science Team

a hand written text from the 16th century CE

500-year-old Transylvanian diaries detail the peril of the Little Ice Age

By Laura Baisas

XB-1 plane taking off in desert

Experimental jet achieves supersonic flight, minus the boom

Chronic stress affects the way mice perceive loudness

Underwater Rocks and Pebbles on the Seabed

A radioactive deep sea mystery may have cosmic origins

dog college scent detection

A visit to dog college

By Lauren Leffer

A blow fly larva disguised as a termite, antennae and all.

Rare fly species wears fake termite head to infiltrate nests

By Laura Baisas

Macaque eats food rests from a trash in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Fighting monkeys cause nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka

Girl using phone seated on the bed

WikiTok just might help you stop doomscrolling

The Earth's internal layers including the mantle, outer core, and inner core.

Earth’s inner core is less solid than we thought

By Laura Baisas

Europa clipper illustration

How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations

By Briley Lewis

The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. The almost perfect alignment of NGC 6505 and the background galaxy has bent and magnified the light from the background galaxy into a spectacular ring. This rare phenomenon was first theorised to exist by Einstein in his general theory of relativity. This wide field shows the extended stellar halo of NGC 6505 and showcases the Einstein ring, surrounded by colourful foreground stars and background galaxies.

Space Telescope

Extremely rare ‘Einstein ring’ discovered close to Earth

By Laura Baisas