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How to quit social media for good

Voyager Golden Record cover on black background

Ask Us Anything

What is on the Voyager Golden Record? Shockingly, not The Beatles.

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Best of What's New

5 coolest engineering innovations of 2024

By Andrew Rosenblum

This photo taken on Oct. 11, 2024 shows the northern lights over Fujin City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Northern lights were observed at different places across Heilongjiang.

The 7 coolest space phenomena we saw from Earth in 2024

a mummy with a necklace of cheese

10 fascinating archeological discoveries of 2024

By Laura Baisas

a person reading a kindle

How to send web articles to your Kindle to read later

a baby pygmy hippo stands on straw at a zoo

11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories from 2024

By Laura Baisas

22 Popular Science stories you loved in 2024

By Popular Science Team

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How to set up and use Apple Intelligence on your iPhone

Pyramids in Giza

Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

Audi Q6 Sportback e-tron

Electric Vehicles

2025 Audi Q6 e-Tron harnesses EV architecture from Porsche

By Kristin Shaw

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Ask Us Anything

Why do we still have to use airplane mode?

'Eric the Robot' in 1930.

In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future

By Bill Gourgey

a black and white photograph of NASA mission control. several men are sitting at various screens and work stations

On Christmas Eve 1968, millions watched the Apollo 8 astronauts broadcast from space

By Laura Baisas

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 is anchored and being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessel (unseen) in the sea of Kattegat, near the City og Granaa in Jutland, Denmark, on November 20, 2024. Denmark's navy said on November 20, 2024 it was shadowing a Chinese cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea, a day after Finland and Sweden opened investigations into suspected sabotage of two severed undersea telecoms cables.

The mystery surrounding two severed Baltic subsea internet cables is getting murkier

By Mack DeGeurin

Aerial shot of Viking grave site

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

By Mack DeGeurin

An adult female chimpanzee cracks an oil palm nut with a stone hammer and anvil while her infant son looks at the camera.

Some chimpanzees are great nutcrackers

By Laura Baisas

an SUV rides off road on dirt

Nissan’s revitalized Armada has cameras so comprehensive, you can (almost) drive blindfolded

By Kristin Shaw

The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way.

Space Telescope

Swirling galaxy arms, a cosmic sombrero, and a dead supernova: Our favorite JWST images from 2024

Scientists are studying squirrels and hibernation that could help humans get to deep space

Hibernation scientists studying squirrels could get humans to deep space

By Lauren Leffer

screensaver options on apple

Is there any reason to use a screensaver anymore?

Chaunacops fish with 2024 Look Back article headline

Ghost ships to ghost sharks: 10 wildest underwater discoveries of 2024

a svalbard reindeer with antlers standing on muddy terrain

Shorter, fatter, and hairier: 5 fun facts about the world’s smallest reindeer

By Laura Baisas

a glacier hiker climbs in the foreground with a headlamp as a rainbow colored aurora dances above

11 sensational images from the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

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6 easy ways to make your home more sustainable

Stonehenge in Wiltshire of the Great Britain. It is a prehistoric monument, in Wiltshire in South West England. It is under protection of UNESCO.

Archeologists think they solved a 4,500-year-old Stonehenge mystery

PC top view. Hands of user. Modern desktop computer with keyboard and mouse. Personal computer screen top view. Wireless input devices. Vector illustration in flat style

How to add Google Drive to your computer (and why you should)

Close up of phone screen showing Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp icons

Dept. of Homeland Security urges Americans to use encrypted apps for texting

a strange fish with a blob on its head sits on a rock

27 new, exciting, and blobby species discovered in the Peruvian rainforest

By Laura Baisas

Snowcat car in a snow ski resort.

The science of ski grooming

By Alisha McDarris

Two mastodon teeth found in Orange County, New York

Man discovers giant mastodon jaw in his backyard

An artistic representation of an active centaur like Chiron. The different colors in the coma indicate varying compositions of gas, ice, and dust.

An ‘oddball’ asteroid-comet hybrid dates back 4.6 billion years

By Laura Baisas

google street view of possible crime

Google Street View helps catch suspect of a grisly crime

By Mack DeGeurin

Hands typing on keyboard

Charter school is replacing teachers with AI

$The first image depicts star cluster NGC 602 in vibrant and festive colors. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.$

Happy holidays from space!

By Laura Baisas

The long finger sticking out of the Sun at the bottom left of this image is a coronal mass ejection. It was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on August 31, 2012.

Does the Sun make noise?

By Harriet Weber

A Sombrero ground lizard (Pholidoscelis corvinus) photographed on Sombrero Island in June 2021. This species is endemic to the Carribbean island.

Population of nearly extinct lizard grows 16X in only six years

By Laura Baisas

fake drone video on tiktok

People keep falling for fake ‘drones over Jersey’ videos

By Mack DeGeurin

Small LCD video projector on table in living room, watching movies in home theater

Can a projector really replace your TV?

backyard chicken flock

The first confirmed, severe human case of bird flu is here

By Lauren Leffer

An Andean bear at the nature reserve Bioparque Wakata, in Briceno municipality near Bogota, Colombia, on June 21, 2023.

Shy ‘Paddington’ bears need more plants to survive

By Laura Baisas

Close up of white wine bottle pouring into wine glass

Bacteria-powered artificial tongue can taste-test alcohol for additives

an illustration of a black hole

Enormous black hole napping after eating a ton of gas

By Laura Baisas

Modern Kitchen with wooden table, kitchen utensils, cooking pots and others, white background.

Recent panic over black plastic started with a math error

person drinking ginger ale on a plane

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Yes, ginger ale really does taste better on a plane. Here’s why.

By Popular Science Team

a squirrel sits eating a vole, pulling its meat with its teeth

‘Shocking:’ These squirrels are hunting and eating other rodents

By Laura Baisas

Martian landscape photo taken by Mars rover

Researchers propose building homes on Mars with human blood

Blurry image of NYC at night

Sorry, but the mystery drones are pretty normal (probably)

a turtle swims in a tank wearing a black weighted harness on its side

Sea turtle with ‘bubble butt syndrome’ gets a 3D-printed custom harness

By Laura Baisas

Wright brothers plane

December 17, 1903: The Wright brothers take flight, drama ensues

By Bill Gourgey

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian in life.

This dog-like predator is the oldest known mammal ancestor

By Laura Baisas

'The role of the fungal communities residing in the upper airways … is practically unknown.'

People with allergies have different nasal fungi

a small blue-colored penguin called a little penguin swims in the ocean

Turtles and penguins have a swimming sweet spot that reduces drag

By Laura Baisas

A digital license plate made by Bay Area company Reviver Auto is displayed at Reviver Auto headquarters on May 30, 2018 in Foster City, California.

Researchers hack digital license plates, demonstrating way to evade tolls and cops

By Mack DeGeurin

a red van parked

Electric Vehicles

The future-retro VW microbus is finally here—quirks and all

person using phone on road

How to avoid car sickness when using your iPhone

four human bones that show evidence of being chewed on by other humans

Bronze Age butchery and cannibalism unearthed in England

By Laura Baisas

a group of people walking on a large glacier

Don’t even think about hiking on a glacier without a guide

By Alisha McDarris

A dramatic blue-grey sky highlights the soft greys of a Weddell seal as it rests on an ice floe.

25 enchanting images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards

By Popular Science Team

How to set up iPhone Sleep Focus mode for some peace and quiet

an orange cat with green eyes with its tongue out

Why do some cats have orange fur? New hue clues in an old mystery.

By Clarissa Brincat

Past experiences strongly affect empathy in mice

ISS with lines pointing to docked Starliner spacecraft

International Space Station

Photographer catches impressive glimpse of Starliner docked to ISS