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Man riding on 3D printed Lego minibike

Engineer builds rideable LEGO motorbike using oversized 3D-printed bricks

a CT scan of two jaw fossils from early mammals

A 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint shifts evolutionary timeline

By Laura Baisas

A mummy from an Early Bronze Age cemetery of Xiaohe (1980–1450 BC) in Xinjiang, China and very old cheese.

World’s oldest cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China

By Lauren Leffer

marbled crayfish

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These self-cloning crayfish ladies could take over the world

By Popular Science Team

A variety of behaviors can foster muscle tension and lead to knots.

Ask Us Anything

What is a muscle knot actually? A pain in the neck, but not a knot.

By Harriet Weber

glass bowl filled with brown seaweed

Bye, kale: Marine scientists want you to eat more seaweed

By Alisha McDarris

Video screenshot of piece of OceanGate Titan wreckage

The OceanGate Titan implosion left a 30,000-square-meter debris field

Study suggests that ambient dopamine levels in the brain do not influence the strength of the placebo effect.

Scientists reexamine dopamine’s role in the placebo effect

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

Spinach rows in farm field

Your recycled pee may be better for crops than synthetic fertilizer

Mount Thielsen with a base of rocks and trees around its side

Extinct volcanoes could hold rare earth elements

By Laura Baisas

Scientists observed two bowhead whales synchronizing dive schedules whenever they were within earshot of each other.

Whales may be communicating across vast distances

By Joanna Thompson / Hakai Magazine

This artist concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about four million times that of our sun.

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Can the black hole in the center of our galaxy expand to our solar system?

By Alex Hazlett

Z Machine operating at Sandia National Laboratories

Could nukes deflect an asteroid? ‘X-ray scissors’ offer scientists clues.

three species of crane stand in tall grass. the first has grey, black and white plumage and is the tallest. the second has mostly white plumage. the last one is small with gray plumage.

Cranes can migrate 4,000 miles, but that’s not the hard part

By Laura Baisas

Video still of Deep Blue Aerospace's Nebula-1 rocket attempting to reland

Private Space Flight

Drone captures Chinese reusable test rocket’s fiery end

Caption: An octopus cyanea hunting with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish (‘blue goatfish’) on the other.

Octopus and fish join forces to hunt together

By Lauren Leffer

The best portable jump starters arranged in a pattern

The best portable jump starters, tested and reviewed

2024 EV9 dashboard screen and infotainment system

Electric Vehicles

The iPhone-ification of cars unlocks a new world of options

By Kristin Shaw

training tech for cops

The dangerous fantasy of cybernetic cops

By Ben Egliston & Marcus Carter / MIT Press Reader

Using the microwave oven to heat food. Woman's hand puts plastic container with broccoli and buckwheat in the microwave

Ask Us Anything

Seriously, stop microwaving your food in plastic

By Lauren Leffer

A Joshua tree on Eureka Peak in Joshua Tree National Park.

With hotter, drier weather, California’s Joshua Trees are in trouble

By Jim Robbins / Yale Environment 360

an iPad, desktop, and laptop with sequoia open

7 cool macOS 15 Sequoia tricks that you couldn’t do before

Cross section of nautilus shell

Mathematicians define a new shape—and you’ve probably seen it

child with fever

Why do we have fevers? It’s more complicated than ‘heat kills bugs.’

By Lauren Leffer

The Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant is seen in the early morning hours March 28, 2011 in Middletown, Pennsylvania.

Massive AI energy demand is bringing Three Mile Island back from the dead

By Mack DeGeurin

A panoramic sand dune of sahara desert at Mhamid el Ghizlane in Morocco wide shot.

Saharan dust sustains life all over the Atlantic Ocean

dark and finger-like fungi arise from under a piece of wood

Is this the creepiest fungus in the forest? Yes, definitely.

By Laura Baisas

Cyberattacks plague the health industry. Critics call Feds’ response feeble and fractured.

By Darius Tahir / KFF Health News

Lionsgate will let Runway AI train its model on John Wick and thousands of other titles.

What a major movie studio’s AI deal could mean for the future of Hollywood

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of memory crystal disc encoded with human genome

In case of extinction, scientists store human genome on a ‘memory crystal’ that lasts billions of years

Passport close up on top of entry stamps

How to renew your US passport online (finally)

a wave rising up from a flat sea

Extreme 3D ocean waves can reach heights 4x steeper than previously thought

By Laura Baisas

Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque.

How biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms

By Peter A Noble and Alex Pozhitkov / The Conversation

a snake with an open mouth and visible fangs

New tool helps scientists identify venomous snakes

By Laura Baisas

Balloon attracting hair with static electricity

After 2,600 years, we finally know how static electricity really works

A possible painting of the dicynodont made by the San in the early 1800s.

The perplexing puzzle of a ‘Horned Serpent’ cave painting

The cool ways ISS astronauts conduct experiments using household items

The cool ways ISS astronauts conduct experiments using household items

By Briley Lewis

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed.

Biggest black hole jets ever seen span 140 Milky Way galaxies

Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem, especially in hospitals. Could an old, disused therapy involving viruses offer a way to counter it?

What if a virus could reverse antibiotic resistance?

By Patience Asanga / Knowable Magazine

a Byrde's whale surfaces to breathe in the Pacific Ocean

Elusive whale’s vocalization could be their version of ‘Marco Polo’

By Laura Baisas

18 cool new iOS 18 features to try on your iPhone

a small baby pygmy hippopotamus sits on the ground

Humans likely wiped out Cyprus’ tiny hippos and elephants in record time

By Laura Baisas

Water anole breathing through air bubble underwater

This lizard’s skin creates an underwater bubble helmet

a cartoon of a young boy named oliver reading Popular Science on a tablet. he said "oh i can be popular by doing science."

Curiosity and fart jokes help explain why ‘Volcanoes are Hot’

By Laura Baisas

FDA approves Apple Watch screening for sleep apnea risk

FDA approves Apple Watch screening for sleep apnea risk

By Mack DeGeurin

Concrete material with hollow tube design

Bone-like, hollow concrete design makes it 5.6 times stronger

a space craft floats in space

Ask Us Anything

What human-made object is the farthest from Earth?

By Alex Hazlett

looking for a mental health provider online

Struggling to find an in-network mental health provider? Here’s what you can do.

By Max Blau / ProPublica

Crystal Palace in 1851 Britain.

How standard screws cracked a 173-year-old architectural mystery

AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation near CDs.

AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation review: Clear sound in an updated package

a red fish with a grumpy expression and large teeth

Seriously grumpy-faced fish discovered in Red Sea

By Laura Baisas

Skeletal remains of child buried in vampire grave

Medieval child ‘vampire burial’ exhumed near Polish cathedral

a long bronze sword

Egyptologists find ancient sword possibly wielded against the mysterious ‘Sea Peoples’

By Laura Baisas

a hand using a computer

Use God Mode and Super God Mode to instantly make you a Windows power user

For the first time, part of the ocean has been granted legal personhood

By Isabella Kaminski / Hakai Magazine

3D illustration showing layers of the Earth in space.

Digging to the center of the Earth–or at least enough to bury poop

screenshot of files app

Hate what Microsoft did with File Explorer? Try this alternative.

a black car part with a man holding a heat gun. his reflection is seen in the car

Inside the Texas factory where a gravel-shooting machine pummels self-healing cars

By Kristin Shaw

This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by the Planck mission.

What was the first color in the universe?

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

a reddish moon in the sky

How the blood moon gets its ghoulish hue

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

surprised Jack Russell terrier portrait on yellow background.

Animals only see in black and white and 5 other color myths

By Tyler Thrasher and Terry Mudge

hand squeezing balloon

Thanks to Reddit, a new diagnosis is bubbling up across the United States

By Rae Ellen Bichell / KFF Health News

toilet paper shaped like sad face

Why you should consider a bidet

By Debbie Wolfe