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A weather radio, portable power station, fire extinguishers, and duct tape on sale for Black Friday

Build an affordable home emergency kit with these early Cyber Monday deals

By Stan Horaczek

Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel in grass, Leelanau State Park, Michigan.

How hibernating squirrels go more than six months without water—and don’t get thirsty

By Lauren Leffer

The EF EcoFlow Delta 2 and Delta 2 Max solar generators on a plain background

This EF EcoFlow solar generator is 60% off and cheaper than ever for Black Friday

By Stan Horaczek

a photo from the movie "moana 2." a whale shark swims by a group of voyagers on the ocean

‘We know the way’: How Polynesian voyagers navigate Earth’s biggest ocean

By Laura Baisas

a polar bear covered in snow

13 marvelous images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Micro-CT scans of bone needle and needle specimens and the species they were compared with.

Ice age humans made needles from animal bones, archeologists discover

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of Tesla Cybercab on city street at night

Electric Vehicles

Tesla seeks human ‘remote operators’ to help ‘autonomous’ robotaxi service

Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 in a tiled configuration.

Solo Stove’s popular smokeless fire pit is just $200 with this Black Friday deal

a long piece of fossilized dinosaur poop on the ground

200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world

By Laura Baisas

Close up of tweezers holding small diamond

Diamond optical discs could store data for millions of years

mercury broken thermometer

Ask Us Anything

Are ‘heavy metals’ dangerous? Yes, but not everything you’ve heard is true.

By Lauren Leffer

A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we do.

Great apes may have cognitive foundations for language

Close up of parachute rig potentially used by DB Cooper

The FBI may be on the verge of reopening the D.B. Cooper case

Peach and Blossom, the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, are seen on the South Lawn of the White House before recieving a Presidential Pardon from US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2024.

Ask Us Anything

How did Thanksgiving turkeys get so darn big?

By Mack DeGeurin

An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole. The oval, an area of concentrated haze, is possibly the result of mixing generated by a vortex higher up in the planet's ionosphere. These dark UV ovals also appear periodically at the north pole, though less often.

Great Red What? Check out Jupiter’s giant, magnetic tornado

By Laura Baisas

Bronze cannon linked to Coronado expedition next to ruler for scale

The oldest known firearm in the U.S. unearthed in Arizona

a more colorful dominant male fish next to a more muted subordinate fish

Stress is warping these fish brains

By Laura Baisas

A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 32 feet away from the mother plant.

High-speed camera catches cucumber squirting seeds at 65 feet-per-second

By Laura Baisas

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

Focaccia baked in kiln

Focaccia likely originated in Mesopotamia, not Rome

An illustration of the amygdala, shown in red. It is a part of the brain’s limbic system and plays a key role in processing emotions.

‘Was I awkward?’ What overthinking after a party has to do with your ‘lizard brain’

By Laura Baisas

The best Black Friday deals under $100 on a plain white background.

64 early Cyber Monday deals under $100—from a $9 selfie stick to $99 Beats headphones

interior of a sedan

Toyota uses noise and vibration engineers in pursuit of cabin silence that rivals luxury cars

By Kristin Shaw

Ray-Ban Meta with clear lenses on-sale for Black Friday

The best Black Friday deal so far: Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a $90 Amazon gift card for $239

By Stan Horaczek

DJI mini 4K black friday deal header

This $239 DJI Mini 4K kit is the best Black Friday drone deal by far

By Stan Horaczek

a microsoft laptop on a table

Everything you can do to declutter Windows

a body on a morgue table with only the feet showing and a toe tag on the big toe

What happens when you donate your body to science?

By RJ Mackenzie

A black tiger—known for its merged stripes—patrols the Similipal Tiger Reserve. (Photo by for Prasenjeet Yadav for National Geographic)

5 fascinating wildlife images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year

By Popular Science Team

Ask Us Anything

How does science explain déjà vu? It’s a brain glitch with a purpose.

By Julia Craven

Concept art depicting Starship HLS on lunar surface with Earth in background

New concept art shows how SpaceX’s Starship will transport Artemis III astronauts to the moon

a black meteorite on display at a musuem

4-billion-year-old mineral offers clues about Mars’ steaming hot past

By Laura Baisas

Looking from the stern of the ship as it tows the long horizontal array of hydrophones. The tow cable can be seen going through the metal horn at the stern. The hydrophone array is several hundred meters behind the ship and about 200 meters deep. Credit: Ross Chapman

New theory explains mysterious ocean quacking first heard in the 1960s

people having dinner talking in a tense way

How to talk to your ‘skeptic’ family about science misinformation

By Lauren Leffer

a scan of a zebrafish with its eye highlighted in green and other parts of its anatomy stained red and blue

Mapping the shifting gaze of ‘fishlets’

By Laura Baisas

the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. it has a wave like crest at the top of its skull

A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

By Laura Baisas

Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on November 2, 2016 in Paris, France. It's the finest example of French Gothic architecture and the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world.

Notre Dame rises from the ashes in behind-the-scenes photos

By Laura Baisas

‘Unidentified product’ in tap water identified after 40 years

bottlenose dolphin screaming

A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years

By Mack DeGeurin

Each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope.

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti

By Laura Baisas

Kindle Paperwhite in a tiled configuration.

The Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader for most people and it’s $30 off for Black Friday

Ask Us Anything

Why do humans have toenails? Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos.’

By Lauren Leffer

Ethiopian wolf licking nectar from Ethiopian red hot poker plant

Endangered Species

These wolves are the first known carnivores to ‘enjoy’ sweets

A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

Marine fossils found at Neanderthal cave site

Neanderthals may have enjoyed collecting tchotchkes—just like us

screenshot of the popular science bluesky account on a plain background

Just joined Bluesky? How to get started and the features you should explore.

Inhumation grave 26, shown in the original field photograph (left), with bones in anatomical articulation lying on their right side with flexed legs.

This ancient skeleton turned out to have eight different people in it

By Popular Science Team

a side by side of a rare gold coin from 1870

Rare California Gold Rush coin fetches $1.44 million at auction

By Laura Baisas

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