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A person holding their smartphone in front of their face to take a selfie
Technology

Selfies have changed our perception of what we look like. Here’s why.

By Abby Ferguson

cartoon hands on a laptop from above
DIY

Windows has a hidden tool that makes installing apps much quicker

By David Nield

a shepherd dog shakes water off its head on a black background
Environment

19 charming winners from the Dog Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

An image of the Sun from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT.
Science

Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

By Harri Weber

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers
Environment

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

By Laura Baisas

An AI-generated rendition of the "Daisy" AI bores a scammer with descriptions of her fictional cat.
Technology

This AI-generated grandma thwarts scammers with long stories about her cat

By Mack DeGeurin

a female mountain lion walks at night with some kittens behind her
Environment

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

screenshot of a waterfall photo open in preview
DIY

The hidden Mac tool for converting annoying HEIC images

By Justin Pot

a hand throws X logo in the trash
DIY

How to leave Twitter for Bluesky

By David Nield

a small bird with black, gray, and white, plumage solves a puzzle in a lab
Environment

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

Ripe tomatoes on green garden.
Science

They CRISPR’ed tomatoes to make them sweet and large

By Andrew Paul

Lafayette-Meteorite
Science

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

By Andrew Paul

A diver from National Geographic Pristine Seas measures the world’s largest coral colony in the Solomon Islands.
Environment

World’s largest coral discovered and it’s longer than a blue whale

By Laura Baisas

a fire burns in the woods
Technology

Navigation app uses government data to help off-roaders avoid wildfire areas

By Kristin Shaw

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it
Environment

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

knob in car
Technology

Goodbye, annoying touchscreens. Welcome back, buttons?

By Mack DeGeurin

a large lump of fat, oil, grease, and other refuse dug up from a sewer on display in a musuem
Technology

The battle against fatbergs has a new weapon

By Laura Baisas

Professor Jade Morton (co-author) posing with a phone and a monitoring station at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A monitoring station has a large and expensive antenna. Phones have smaller antennas, which leads to noisier measurements, but phones are present in more parts of the world.
Technology

Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS

By Mack DeGeurin

x-ray scans of early human skulls. the teeth are colored red, green, orange, blue, and purple to show the differences among them
Science

These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods

By Laura Baisas

Beluga Whale or White Whale, delphinapterus leucas, Adult
Science

Russian ‘spy whale’ was actually an aquatic guard turned ‘hooligan’

By Andrew Paul

young woman in bed with alarm clock and eyes opened suffering insomnia and sleep disorder thinking about his problem on dark studio lighting in sleeping and nightmare issues
Science

What causes you to jolt awake right before falling asleep?

By Andrew Paul

a small baby gibbon with large eyes sits on its mother
Environment

Endangered newborn siamang gibbon is a ‘sign of hope’

By Laura Baisas

a new mollusc with a hood over its head
Science

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

da Vinci Surgical System practicing sutures on pork loin
Technology

Watch a robot operate on a pork loin

By Andrew Paul

Close up of blooming corpse flower
Environment

Scientists crack the mystery of why the corpse flower smells like death

By Andrew Paul

forest
Environment

How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone.

By Matt Simon / Grist

two leopards fighting in dirt
Environment

14 dramatic moments from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photo Awards

By Popular Science Team

man holds camcorder
Technology

The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible

By Popular Science Team

a person performs CPR
Health

Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates

By Laura Baisas

closeup of eyeball
Health

Why your computer screen hurts your eyes (and how to help)

By John Alexander

Laptop computer keyboard overhead on bright yellow and blue background with copy space
DIY

It’s time to declutter your messy macOS

By David Nield

storm clouds and a rainbow form over narrow islands. a lighthouse
Environment

10 striking snapshots from the Weather Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

a yellow dog shakes excess water off of its fur
Environment

Why wet dogs shake so much

By Laura Baisas

an elephant in a zoo enclosure holds a yellow hose in its trunk and uses the hose as a shower
Science

Watch a clever elephant use a hose to get clean

By Laura Baisas

Chimpanzee playing a number-based game on a touch screen
Science

Like humans, chimps often perform tasks differently when crowds are watching

By Andrew Paul

Pocket gopher emerging from burrow
Environment

How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back

By Andrew Paul

bats on treadmills
Environment

Why scientists made vampire bats run on treadmills

By Mack DeGeurin

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense
Environment

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

By Laura Baisas

Close up of two rhesus monkeys
Science

43 rhesus macaques have escaped from South Carolina’s ‘Monkey Farm’

By Andrew Paul

two bodies from pompeii preserved in white plaster
Science

DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims

By Laura Baisas

a sports car on a mountain road
Technology

Aston Martin vanquishes the ghosts of bygone spies

By Dan Carney

a pickup truck with three large screens in trunk
Technology

5 cool Toyota concept builds that’ll make you want to adventure outside

By Kristin Shaw

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild
Environment

The ‘wild’ salmon on your menu might not be wild

By Lauren Leffer

"message chatgpt" screenshot
DIY

Goodbye Google? How to use ChatGPT’s new web search.

By David Nield

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.
Science

‘Swiss army knife’ of the brain: How star-shaped cells reshape our understanding of memory

By Tom Hawking

brain scans of people watching clips from movies
Science

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas

Civil War Urns
Science

Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage

By Andrew Paul

four leaf clover good luck
Science

Science says superstitions can have a very real impact on your life

By Popular Science Staff

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought.
Science

Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways

By Mack DeGeurin

Human tissue sample created in 3D bioprinter
Science

Bioprinting breakthrough uses acoustic waves to create lab-grown human tissue

By Andrew Paul

Gloved hand pointing to LignoSat wooden satellite prototype
Technology

World’s first wooden satellite shares material with samurai sword sheaths

By Andrew Paul

a small hippo in straw
Environment

5 things to know about pygmy hippos–like Scotland’s own Haggis

By Laura Baisas

Spare parts of plastic 'Garfield' phones are displayed on the beach on March 28, 2019 in Plouarzel, western France, after being collected from a sea cave by environmental activists.
Environment

6 of the weirdest things to ever wash up on the beach

By Lauren Leffer

a metal cylinder with various markings on it and what those markings look like on a clay tablet
Science

6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing

By Laura Baisas

Rusty-patched Bumblebee gathering nectar from a yellow flower
Environment

Rare bees kill Meta’s nuclear-powered AI data center plans

By Andrew Paul

two baseballs held in two hands. one is bright white and the other is coated with a brown mud
Science

Baseball’s legendary ‘magic mud’ finally analyzed by scientists

By Laura Baisas

truck in the sand
Technology

How the 2025 Ram 1500 RHO squeezes more power from fewer cylinders

By Kristin Shaw

Illustration of a terror bird standing by river
Science

Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall

By Andrew Paul

Pompeii ruins
Science

Without humans, what would happen to Earth?

By Lauren Leffer

screenshot of "gooseberry bush" bookmark in apple maps
DIY

How to remember your favorite places using Apple Maps

By David Nield

a man on a walkie talkie as runners go by
Technology

Meet the ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the New York Marathon running smoothly

By Tom Hawking

purple bubbles on stick-like thing
Environment

Invisible to the naked eye: 15 gorgeous images captured under a microscope

By Popular Science Team

screenshot of "save visible" option in firefox window
DIY

How to take screenshots (and scrolling screenshots) of webpages

By David Nield

ISS's first crew poses during water survival training.
Science

November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station

By Bill Gourgey