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an astronaut on a spacewalk in a full spacesuit takes a selfie with earth in the background

International Space Station

Six months in space is not that bad for your brain

By Laura Baisas

stone walls separating several small houses in ireland

Scottish, Irish, and Northern English better at detecting fake accents

By Laura Baisas

SpaceX Starship launching on fifth test flight

The SpaceX Starship is so loud, it may kill birds

Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of the lithium mine of the Chilean company SQM (Sociedad Quimica Minera) in the Atacama Desert, Calama, Chile, on September 12, 2022.

‘Everything has a cost:’ High-tech products and the new era of mineral mining

By Mack DeGeurin

Aurora MK-II rocket plane above Earth

Watch the first commercial supersonic test flight in over 20 years

a silver coin minted before the american revolution. one side has the letters NE on it for new england and the other has the roman numeral 3 for its value

Colonial silver coin found in cabinet sells for $2.5 million

By Laura Baisas

the sound of your own voice

Ask Us Anything

Why do people hate the sound of their own voice?

By Julia Craven

An eye and arms of an octopus. The small dots visible around the eye are the chromatophores.

For octopuses, changing colors is hard work

By Lauren Leffer

Various images of Bes mugs

Ancient Egyptian ritual potion included hallucinogens and bodily fluids

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and organelles in yellow-green).

Bioengineers made mutant, solar-powered hamster cells

raw milk poured into a glass

Is raw milk safe? Science has a clear answer.

By Lauren Leffer

a tick half embedded in human skin

How hitchhiking ticks are bringing diseases to new places

By Laura Baisas

swirling blue and brown image on half moon and black background

Jupiter stuns in new images

By Popular Science Team

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

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

By Abby Ferguson

cartoon hands on a laptop from above

Windows has a hidden tool that makes installing apps much quicker

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

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.

Ask Us Anything

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

By Harriet Weber

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers

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.

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

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

screenshot of a waterfall photo open in preview

The hidden Mac tool for converting annoying HEIC images

How to leave Twitter for Bluesky

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

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

Ripe tomatoes on green garden.

They CRISPR’ed tomatoes to make them sweet and large

Lafayette-Meteorite

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

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

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

By Laura Baisas

a fire burns in the woods

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

By Kristin Shaw

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

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

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.

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

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

By Laura Baisas

Beluga Whale or White Whale, delphinapterus leucas, Adult

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

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

Ask Us Anything

What causes you to jolt awake right before falling asleep?

a small baby gibbon with large eyes sits on its mother

Endangered newborn siamang gibbon is a ‘sign of hope’

By Laura Baisas

a new mollusc with a hood over its head

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

By Laura Baisas

da Vinci Surgical System practicing sutures on pork loin

Watch a robot operate on a pork loin

Close up of blooming corpse flower

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

How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone.

By Matt Simon / Grist

two leopards fighting in dirt

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

By Popular Science Team

man holds camcorder

The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible

By Popular Science Team

a person performs CPR

Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates

By Laura Baisas

closeup of eyeball

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

It’s time to declutter your messy macOS

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

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

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

Watch a clever elephant use a hose to get clean

By Laura Baisas

Chimpanzee playing a number-based game on a touch screen

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

Pocket gopher emerging from burrow

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

bats on treadmills

Why scientists made vampire bats run on treadmills

By Mack DeGeurin

a lone coyote in a forest looks into a camera lense

Coyotes appear to be thriving under pressure

By Laura Baisas

Close up of two rhesus monkeys

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

two bodies from pompeii preserved in white plaster

DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims

By Laura Baisas

a sports car on a mountain road

Aston Martin vanquishes the ghosts of bygone spies

a pickup truck with three large screens in trunk

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

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

By Lauren Leffer

"message chatgpt" screenshot

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

Astrocytes; neuroglial cells, 250X at 35mm.

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

brain scans of people watching clips from movies

MIT maps how the brain experiences movies

By Laura Baisas

Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage

four leaf clover good luck

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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.

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

By Mack DeGeurin

Human tissue sample created in 3D bioprinter

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