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A full-length color photograph of a young woman figure skating on an outdoor ice rink. She is wearing a pale green long-sleeved skating dress and white skates, captured in a graceful pose with her arms extended and one leg trailing behind her. The background features a tall, modern office building, bare trees, and a mountain range under a pale sky, reflecting a mid-century winter aesthetic.

From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked

LEGO Star Wars Tie Fighter header

The first Lego Star Wars sets to support the SMART Brick start shipping in March, but you can pre-order them right now

By Stan Horaczek

Milky way galaxy over observatory

Amazon’s 180 internet satellites are already too bright. It wants 3,000 more.

screenshot of digg front page

Digg is back to take on Reddit, and you can use it now

Funeral urn on table next to four lit candles

80% of Americans may opt for cremation by 2045

Snowed in suburban street. Piles of snow are on either side of a snowy road. A house and telephone wires are seen in the background.

Ask Us Anything

The most dangerous type of precipitation isn’t snow

By Popular Science Team

Comparison of short green and long red lipstick vine flowers

This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

An x-ray image of the brain showing a blue outline of a person's upper skull and bright, glowing yellow brain.

What’s a false memory? Psychologists explain how your brain can lie.

By RJ Mackenzie

Close up of woman brushing teeth using electric toothbrush

New whitening powder activates with your electric toothbrush

Abalone shells with numerical tags

Endangered Species

Mysterious, numbered mollusk discovered on Australian beach

ReadyWise emergency food bucket with oat meal

Stock up on ReadyWise emergency food supplies during this Walmart flash clearance sale

By Stan Horaczek

This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively. The annotations on the image show where Chandra has detected over 3,300 individual sources in this field of view over a 22-year timeframe.

Space Telescope

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

man standing under drone umbrella in the rain

We may not have flying cars, but we have flying umbrellas

a bald eagle with an egg

Bald eagle chick watch 2026: Jackie lays first eggs

By Popular Science Team

a grandmother and grand child lay with colorful blocks

Babysitting grandkids can boost brain health

By Laura Baisas

REI Co-op pants, fleece, jackets on sale

REI is blowing out its branded jackets, fleeces pants, and more for clearance prices during this winter sale

By Stan Horaczek

a shark with brownish yellow scales and spots curled up among coral

‘Walking sharks’ lay eggs without breaking a sweat

By Margherita Bassi

several nesting pairs of birds on grass with a clear blue ocean water in the background

Snowed in? Watch albatrosses nest on a sunny Pacific island instead

By Laura Baisas

A vibrant culinary photograph featuring a bowl of fresh ceviche made from white fish, red onion, and herbs, surrounded by the raw ingredients used to prepare it. Several whole, striped lionfish with their distinctive venomous spines are arranged around the bowl alongside whole limes, red onions, and bright orange habanero peppers.

Should you eat invasive species? We asked an ecologist.

By Andrew Coletti

Ninja DG551 Foodi Smart XL 6-in-1 Indoor Grill

Amazon just dropped this $300 Ninja indoor grill/air fryer down to $150 on clearance

By Stan Horaczek

Young woman sitting on a sofa and looking at a smartphone with a confused expression

How to stop annoying spam calls

a jellyfish with a red center, blue circle on the outer part of its body, and small tentavles

Perplexing blue button jelly looks like something out of ‘Lord of the Rings’

By Margherita Bassi

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This AI thinks it’s the 1800s

a stingray swimming in clear blue water

Stingray-inspired robot cracks the mystery of how rays swim

By Mack DeGeurin

Scene from Bayeux tapestry showing Halley's comet

Halley’s comet may need a new, medieval name

Craftsman string trimmers

Lowe’s is blowing out this Craftsman cordless string trimmer with battery and charger for just $29 while they last

By Stan Horaczek

Medieval portrait of Richard Rolle

Forgotten, priceless medieval book found in school library

a man anxiously sitting in front of a computer with his hand over his mouth

It’s not in your head. Fear drives decision making.

By Laura Baisas

unhealthy lunch box on table cloth

Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows

By Moul Dey / The Conversation

A young woman slumped over her desk in an office, fast asleep on her arms. To humorously hide that she is sleeping, two pink sticky notes with cartoon eyes drawn on them are stuck over her closed eyelids. Her workspace includes a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, and a light blue coffee mug.

Tired? You may have social jetlag.

REI sneakers on sale with boots

REI is blowing out sneakers, hiking boots, and casual shoes during its winter clearance sale

By Stan Horaczek

Group of red kangaroos running in Australia

550-pound Ice Age kangaroos could still hop

a small mammal called a marten stands on a log

Endangered Species

Adorable ferret-sized martens are rebounding in California

By Laura Baisas

Yellow bananas arranged against a blue background

Penis size may matter more to men than women

A Sony PS-LX3BT turntable playing turquoise colored vinyl.

Sony embraces analog and aesthetic with new turntables

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. Researchers using new data from Webb’s MIRI proved that crystalline silicates form in the hottest part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star — and may be shot to the system’s edges.

Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope solves a comet crystal mystery

a black robot shaped like a human hand

This robot hand can detach from its arm and crawl around

By Mack DeGeurin

A beautiful snowy forest. The setting sun shines through the tall trunks of conifers.

Ask Us Anything

Snow isn’t actually white

By Laura Kiniry

a monkey with a red face sits in a hot spring while it snows

Snow monkeys love hot springs. They’re also good for them.

By Laura Baisas

Tree broken in half near house due to heavy snowfall

Ask Us Anything

Do trees really explode in extreme cold?

hand putting phone on charger in car

How Nissan improved the wireless charging pad for faster phone juice-ups

By Kristin Shaw

A millenial with a mustache wandering around in public transport showing off a Sony Linkbud Clip open earbud in greige

Sony’s new LinkBuds Clip make situational awareness look clean

rock art showing a clawed hand and an animal

World’s oldest-known rock art found in Indonesian cave

By Laura Baisas

Four images side-by-side showing angles of a saxophone-inspired instrument called the Post Digital Sax

The 10 weirdest and wildest musical instruments of 2026

Some pieces of chocolate with white splotches on a wooden cutting board.

Ask Us Anything

Why does chocolate turn white? It’s not mold.

By Clarissa Brincat

Hero image of the Meze Audio STRADA closed back dynamic driver headphones connected to a DAP

Meze Audio builds on its success, literally, with new STRADA headphones

A Warm Grey Jabra Evolve3 75 and Black Evolve3 85 headset sitting next to each other on a white background

Jabra transforms headsets into headphones with new Evolve3 75 & 85

a pod of white beluga whales swimming off the coast of Alaska

Endangered Species

The swinging sex lives of Alaska’s beluga whales

By Laura Baisas

a lionness walks on a misty night

13 gorgeous black-and-white images of the animal kingdom

By Popular Science Team

January 4, 2022 Deerton, MI Mature woman working on laptop in her home.

How to really spot AI-generated images, with Google’s help

Cuddl Duds base layers on sale at Amazon

Amazon is blowing out Cuddl Duds base layers and and thermal underwear just in time for frigid temperatures

By Stan Horaczek

Pouring whiskey into glass from bottle near wooden barrel on table

Scottish distillery wants to bottle whisky in aluminum, not glass

Paleontologists excavating sandstone encased dinosaur fossils from parking lot dig site

Dinosaur bones found underneath parking lot in Dinosaur, Colorado

A cross section of a dog's heart showing heartworm

This deadly dog ‘spaghetti’ has ancient origins

By Laura Baisas

a bat flying through the night

A robot bat sheds new light on how they hunt in darkness

By Mack DeGeurin

Cozyplayer pillow with a woman sleeping on it.

This weirdly shaped pillow might help you sleep better and it’s 40% off at Amazon right now

By Stan Horaczek

Canada and USA reenacting the war during 1812

British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland

a brown cow with a large stick in her mouth and mountains in the background

Veronika the Cow shocks scientists by using a tool

By Laura Baisas

The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex is seen in the Dinosaur Gallery of the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.

Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size

By Margherita Bassi

Craftsman mechanic tool set and impact driver

Amazon has this 262-piece Craftsman Mechanic Tool set for just $129 (down from $249)

By Stan Horaczek

large semi in front of hydrogen plant

Electric Vehicles

Toyota is drag racing hydrogen-powered trucks in the Arizona desert

By Kristin Shaw

Three harvest mice playing around and entwining their tails together to stop them from falling.

Female mice often have multiple sexual partners—for survival

By Margherita Bassi

A group of Emperor penguin chicks (

A huge iceberg becomes a deadly trap for penguins

Outdoor gear on clearance at Backcountry.com

Backcountry.com’s 3-day clearance flash sale dropped jackets, hoodies, fleeces, and more up to 70% off

By Stan Horaczek