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a green frog with its eyes and mouth sticking out of a shallow pool of water

Earth’s ‘Great Dying’ killed 80-90% of life. How some amphibians survived.

By Laura Baisas

Sunrise on moon taken by Blue Ghost lunar lander

NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time

hand holding an android phone

How to fully back up your Android device

Doctors performing eye surgery in operating room

Surgeons implant teeth in patients’ eyes to restore vision

a large hornet dismembers a honey bee

1,400 different bug species found in the guts of Asian hornets

By Laura Baisas

DJI RS4 Mini Gimbal with a camera attached

DJI RS4 Mini Gimbal review: Smooth and steady

By Stan Horaczek

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black

Space Telescope

Candy-colored atoms shine in new image of the Veil Nebula

By Laura Baisas

An argentine ant is farming aphids on a young leaf.

Vicious invasive ants form gigantic supercolonies

a charging station

Electric Vehicles

Building an EV oasis in the Mojave Desert

By Kristin Shaw

three eggs in a nest. the egg on the right has a pip, which is the first crack in a shell. the pip is circled in red

Pips spotted! Live cam bald eagles’ eggs shows hopeful signs of hatching

By Laura Baisas

Man working with modern laptop in office. Hands typing on keyboard

You should add keyboard shortcuts to your Mac

Florida, Coral Gables, Classic Car Show, 1955 Pontiac, blue, chrome bumper,

Why don’t cars have bulky bumpers anymore?

By Kristin Shaw

Samsung Galaxy S25-series smartphones in blue in a blue background

11 tips to get the most out of your new Samsung Galaxy S25 smartphone

an instagram feed

How to save all your old Instagram stories and posts

an arm covered in a rose tattoo

Ask Us Anything

Where does tattoo ink go in your body? There’s one particular spot.

By RJ Mackenzie

a colorful illustration of an open mouth

New device lets you taste food in virtual reality

By Mack DeGeurin

black rat sits on cage

Patient’s tingling feet turns out to be a rat-borne brain parasite

a 'blood moon' with a reddish color

March skygazing: A ‘celestial smiley face,’ a blood moon, and more

three narwhals with long tusks swim in the arctic ocean

Narwhals spotted using tusks for non-mating fun

By Laura Baisas

Close up of hands preparing pill capsules in lab

‘Poop pills’ tested in pancreatic cancer patients

illustration of rockets and satellites circling moon

Six weeks, three moon landers: The era of private space exploration is here

By Mack DeGeurin

an astronaut performs a space walk on the international space station. earth is visible in the foreground.

Should the International Space Station be dirtier?

By Lauren Leffer

A fragment of the black organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum.

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass

A pattern of ears on a background

Ask Us Anything

Why can some people wiggle their ears?

By Clarissa Brincat

A polar bear mom and cub on sea ice, off the coast of Svalbard, Norway.

See the first moments when 3 polar bear cubs emerge from their den

By Laura Baisas

Hydro Flasks in black and silver arranged in a row

Save 54% off this 64-ounce Hydro Flask Wide Mouth water bottle and stay hydrated all year

By Stan Horaczek

Illustration of giant flying squirrel leaping onto tree branch

Flying squirrels the size of cats soared over prehistoric Appalachia

a humpback whale lunches out of the water with its mouth open

Krill or anchovy? Baleen whale songs may indicate what’s on the menu

By Laura Baisas

a raccoon looking at a camera

Morning lark or night owl? Prevailing ideas of mammal activity are outdated

By Lauren Leffer

digitally generated computer graphic illustration image of a human brain with a modeling clay texture.

Subtle differences identified in brains of people with schizophrenia

CR450AF high speed train on track in China with two people looking at it

At 281 mph, China tests its fastest high-speed train

This aerial view shows the Shedd Aquarium on Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, on August 1, 2024.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Chicago’s pollution could be keeping river monsters at bay

By Popular Science Team

a robot looking at a reflection of itself

Like babies and dancers, this robot learns from studying itself

By Mack DeGeurin

Nutria looking at camera against plant background

US Fish and Wildlife is begging you to eat more invasive marsh rodents

The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland

Scotland certifies official tartan to honor its ‘witches’

a skill with an iron nail driven through it

New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain

By Laura Baisas

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen against the characteristic red tones of the dusty martian surface.

Why is Mars red? Our old understanding might be wrong.

By Laura Baisas

three iphones facing down on an orange background

How to move digital purchases between two Apple Accounts

Aerial view of Utopia Planitia region of Mars

New evidence suggests Mars once had ‘vacation-style beaches’

Philippines ocean coast with mountains

Southeast Asian sailors possibly mastered seafaring before Polynesians

a newly discovered species of plant. it has fuzzy white wool on its green leaves, a yellow center, and two small red flowers

New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer

By Laura Baisas

a polar bear swims towards the camera in icy waters

14 outstanding images from the 2025 World Nature Photographer Awards

By Popular Science Team

a green sports car skidding across the ice, kicking up ice

Behind the wheel of Lamborghinis ripping across a frozen lake

By Kristin Shaw

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