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The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2025 Mark Meth-Cohn MILNTHORPE United Kingdom Title: Aaaaaww Mum! Description: Caring Gorilla mum giving her infant a big sloppy kiss! Animal: Gorilla Location of shot: Rwanda

10 delightful images from the 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

a smart watch and phone illuminate as a woman is sleeping

Can tracking make my sleep worse? The quiet torment of sleep tech.

Silver laptop against blue background

How to set up an Apple legacy contact, in case you die

laptop with Hulu open

How to reset your terrible streaming recommendations

a large blue star with radiant points

June skygazing: A strawberry moon, the summer solstice… and Asteroid Day!

Portrait of a 5 month old baby girl

Ask Us Anything

Why do babies’ eyes change color? Sunlight, genetics, and more.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

circa 1942: A U.S. Air Force B-17 'Flying Fortress' bomber flies through the sky, World War II. The aircraft was used extensively in Allied air raids, such as those against Hamburg and Dresden, and battles against German aircraft. (Photo by R. Gates/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Illinois man has spent 40 years rebuilding a WWII-era B-17 bomber

By Mack DeGeurin

white fava beans

Why fava beans taste gross (and how scientists want to fix them)

By Margherita Bassi

Dyson vacuums on a white background on sale at Walmart

Walmart is blowing out Dyson vacuums as low as $199 during this flash sale

By Stan Horaczek

a small frog on a road, with a person's bright sneakers in the background

Wildlife underpass reduces squished amphibians by 80%

By Laura Baisas

Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San Diego, California.

108-year-old submarine wreck seen in stunning detail in new footage

By Margherita Bassi

Hand holds Vintage photograph of boy on tricycle at christmas

Why we forget our childhoods

By RJ Mackenzie

A harbor seal viewing a simulation of the seabed rushing beneath him, with a red ball target either side of his head to touch, to indicate which direction he appeared to be moving in.

Seals playing a video game reveal how they find their way

By Laura Baisas

The DJI Mini 2 drone in flight

The DJI Mini 4K drone will probably never be this cheap again

By Stan Horaczek

A wildfire frontline with emergency services nearby, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada.

Are we in a sixth mass extinction?

By Lauren Leffer

Yeti Hondo beach chair on a beach

Yeti Hondo Beach Chair review: The best camping chair for bigger bodies

By Stan Horaczek

bearded man with sensors on face

Electronic face tattoo knows when you’re getting bored

By Mack DeGeurin

A painting scene of people suffering from the bubonic plague in the 15th century from the Toggenberg Bible.

How the bubonic plague has survived for centuries

By Laura Baisas

a turtle with a large hole in its shell

Turtle’s mysterious injury caused by a golf ball

By Margherita Bassi

a woman browsing a sunscreen aisle in a grocery store

Mineral vs. chemical sunscreen: What’s best for protecting your skin?

By Laura Baisas

A female oceanic whitetip shark seen feeding on the carcass.

Sharks surprise scientists by sharing a meal

By Laura Baisas

a pygmy hippo shows teeth in seemingly happy way

Endangered Species

This 51-year-old pygmy hippo just set a world record

By Popular Science Team

a cat with wide eyes

Your cat probably knows your smell

By Laura Baisas

machine sitting on a roof in NYC

Refrigerator-sized machine makes gasoline out of thin air

By Mack DeGeurin

a close up of a bed bug

Bed bugs have been bothering humans for 60,000 years

By Laura Baisas

Women practicing necessary steps for ice bath therapy, pinching their noses with their fingers to hold their breath, listening carefully to the instructor, mentally preparing for a new and revitalizing healing experience

Are ice baths good for you? The benefits and risks of a cold plunge.

By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall

A sad, burned hot dog on a grill

How to safely clean your grill

grey suv parked in front of columned building

Electric Vehicles

Chevrolet tested its 2025 Blazer EV in vomit-inducing way

By Kristin Shaw

black cybertruck in front of a crowd

Electric Vehicles

Cybertruck police cruisers set to patrol World Cup matches in Mexico

By Mack DeGeurin

a man holds a long projectile tool made from a whale bone.

Oldest-known whale bone tools discovered in a Spanish cave

By Laura Baisas

a woman drinks water with the sun beating down

What is dew point? A meteorologist explains that sticky air.

By Laura Baisas

notebook lm on phone screen

Google’s best AI research tool is now on your phone

screenshot of feedly

How to use Feedly to keep up with everything you want to read

man looks at meterology

Weather forecasting improves with AI, but we still need humans

By Mack DeGeurin

google maps open on apple carplay

7 Google Maps tips to use with Android Auto and CarPlay

an illustration of a long marine reptile with large teeth eating a shelled animal

‘Very odd’ 40-foot-long marine reptile stalked prehistoric Canada

By Laura Baisas

luffa acutangular, Cucurbitaceae green vegetable fresh on brown fabric in garden on nature background

A trip to the farm where loofahs grow on vines

By Alisha McDarris

a large American bullfrog in water with vegetation

This invasive frog can fit baby turtles inside its mouth

By Margherita Bassi

During the night of 13 to 14 March 2025, the sky was embellished by this total lunar eclipse. NOIRLab's photo ambassador, Petr Horálek, captured the phenomenon at NSF Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. A composite image of this eclipse was featured as a NOIRLab Image of the Week. Also see the cropped view, the 360-Degree view, the fulldome view, the photosphere view, and the zoomed out view.

17 dazzling images from 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Huckberry sale products arranged against a plain background on sale for Memorial Day

Huckberry’s Memorial Day sale drops prices on splurge-worthy clothes and accessories for summer

By Stan Horaczek

Masted schooner ship at sea

Skull found on New Jersey beach linked to 19th century shipwreck

two robots fighting. one is throwing a kick

In world’s first humanoid boxing match, gloating robot face plants

By Mack DeGeurin

two birds with black and white plumage with dots of yellow or blue feathers neat their beaks sit near a nest

Male hornbills are at their mates’ every beck and call

By Margherita Bassi

A mountain bike, Hoka sneaker, and Osprey backpack arranged on a plain background for REI's anniversary sale

REI’s anniversary sale has sneakers, hiking gear, clothing, bikes, and more for ridiculously low prices

By Stan Horaczek

Speech bubble with swear word symbols on red background

US ranks first in swearing

Sliced and diced header showing four IEMs for gaming

The best IEMs for gaming in 2025, tested and reviewed

an illustration showing the various sizes of extinct giant sloths

8,000-pound sloths once roamed North America. Where’d they go?

By Laura Baisas

coffee pot pouring coffee into a mug

4 coffee myths debunked by science

Erupting volcano

Earth’s core is leaking gold

View from Viking clinker sail boat at sea

Archaeologists are taking to the high seas in Viking ships

Vice golf balls in black, orange, and splatter on a plain background on sale at Amazon

Amazon is clearing out these tour-grade Vice golf balls during its Memorial Day sale

By Stan Horaczek

Adélie penguins walking along the Antarctic coastline.

How pungent poop could help Antarctica’s penguins

By Laura Baisas

Ditch Plains beach entry Montauk Long Island New York in the Hamptons with rip current warning sign

Florida man rigs drone to save drowning teen

a smiley face made of white sunscreen on a hand

Do I really need to wear sunscreen every day? We asked dermatologists.

By Laura Baisas

a dog with wide eyes and ears perked up is kissed by two humans

Dogs can fulfill our need to nurture

By Laura Baisas

Emergency lighting to keep around your house

The best emergency lighting options to keep on hand, according to experts

Magnus Carlsen speaking into microphone at chess event

143,000 people teamed up to tie the world’s top chess player

Woman sleeping in bed with tape over mouth

Don’t tape your mouth before bed

Man holding woolly rat out for camera

Elusive woolly rat photographed for the first time

a pink and yellow flower with delicate petals

Plants can hear tiny wing flaps of pollinators

By Laura Baisas

a taxidermied bird

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The foul-mouthed cockatoo that lived to 120

By Popular Science Team

Solar system, computer artwork.

In what order did the planets in our solar system form?

By Christopher Palma & Lucas Brefka, The Conversation

Close up of Jupiter's storms

Jupiter was once twice as large as it is today

a clear marine worm with many appendages branching out of its torso and some dots of colors

Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating

By Laura Baisas