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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

a car with "NASCAR" on hood parked inside a facility with man standing outside of car

How 3D-printed parts changed the NASCAR Cup Series

By Kristin Shaw

a screenshot asking chatgpt to send a cat photo every day at 4pm

How to use tasks and reminders inside ChatGPT

13-inch Apple MacBook Pro With Retina Display. Isolated on table.

4 clever uses for an old Mac

noses and a green stink cloud

Ask Us Anything

Can bad smells harm you?

By Keith Wagstaff

a laptop, ipad, and iphone

How to turn off Apple Intelligence on all your Apple devices

Seized Japanese beetles in containers

Smugglers try to disguise giant beetles as Japanese snacks, unsuccessfully

Experimental results of the miniaturized DN2s integrated at the distal facet of a MMF using the 3D GS-TPN fabrication method, showing SEM and white-light microscopy images.

This AI chip is the size of a grain of salt

a long python snake coiled in the grass with its head poking up

Hunting for Burmese pythons is best done in the dark

By Laura Baisas

Plesiosaur skeleton

Paleontologists solve decades’ old mystery about plesiosaur skin texture

Researchers implanted cultivated tooth constructs into the mandibles of six two-year-old mini pigs.

Human-like teeth successfully grown in a pig’s mouth

By Mack DeGeurin

a close up of a brightly colored mantis shrimp. they have two buldging eyes and greenish-yellow side appendages that they use to punch

How mantis shrimp protect their powerful ‘fists’ of fury

By Laura Baisas

Boiled and half-peeled eggs

Science says this is the perfect way to boil eggs

a black and white dog called a border collie sniffs around green grass

Border collies out-sniff some hunting dogs in scientific smell competition

By Laura Baisas

Deep envisions several of its 'sentinel' units parking beside each other to from an underwater research center.

The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement

By Mack DeGeurin

Crane installing wind turbine wings

New wind turbines will test out the world’s longest wooden blades

an orange kitten with its paw up

Relax, Whiskers. Scotland is not banning cats

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

a bloodied badger stares at a porcupine. the badger is covered in quills

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice winners capture nature at its fiercest

By Popular Science Team

Diagram showing potential labret piercing abrasions on teeth

Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children

A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.

Space Telescope

Newborn stars surround a planet-forming disk 450 million light years away

By Laura Baisas

A general view exterior of Caesars Superdome, home of the NFL New Orleans Saints, on October 13, 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

FAA creates ‘No Drone Zone’ around Super Bowl LIX

By Mack DeGeurin

Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site

‘Devil’s money’ discovered at medieval cult site

a tiny green frog looking up from water

Endangered Species

Frogs rescued from a deadly fungus welcome 33 froglets

By Laura Baisas

In this photo illustration, we see a close-up of the midsection and legs of woman with an arm tattoo holding a smartphone and an illuminated insulin pump.

Does wearing a continuous glucose monitor help people without diabetes? We asked experts.

By Clarissa Brincat

Killer whale breaching water with oceans and birds behind it

Killer whales murder great white sharks for their livers

Yellow Cyclone V-Twin motorcycle

A 110-year-old hot rod is the first motorcycle to sell for over $1M at auction

an SUV on a dirt road in hilly area

The 2025 Toyota 4Runner is shockingly ready for whoops

By Kristin Shaw

An artist’s concept of the Gateway space station in a polar orbit around the moon

Gateway: The 21st-century moonshot mission

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

Macro view of organic fruit and veg food waste decomposing inside a domestic garden compost bin

The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close.

By Frida Garza / Grist

Surgeons using apple vision pro in surgery

The future of Apple Vision Pro is in medicine

By Stan Horaczek

Selective focus, Mouth of Young Asian woman talking with a friend via speakerphone on mobile phone while sitting on sofa in living room at home, sending audio message on smartphone, holds device near mouth

How to record audio and get transcripts in Notes on iOS 18

The Spotify app icon is being displayed on a smartphone with Spotify visible in the background in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 11, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto)

9 useful apps that plug into Spotify

Image of nanoflower structure

Future bandages could be armed with nanoflowers

Boto Amazon River Dolphin close up

Male Amazon river dolphins pee into the air, confusing scientists

Sierra Space Dream Chaser spaceplane landing on runway

International Space Station

Curvy spaceplane is one step closer to its ISS rendezvous

People gather around a tall bonze sculpture of a dragon that emits actual fire

Fire-breathing dragon sculpture not allowed to breathe fire

By Laura Baisas

A long awaited astronomical event dubbed as the planet parade or planetary alignment. Four planets are visible to the naked eye in the evening sky. Saturn and Venus are moving along the solar system's disc, as seen from Sparta, North Carolina on January 25, 2025.

February stargazing: ‘Planet parade’ continues and Venus shines

a close up of a human ear

Most humans haven’t moved these muscles in 25 million years

By Laura Baisas