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Dyson air purifier and vacuum on sale during Amazon's Big Spring Sale

Dyson vacuums, air purifiers, and fans are up to 50% off at Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

By Stan Horaczek

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ECOVACS robot vacuums and automatic lawn mowers are up to 50% off at Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of two people clinking together red wine glasses

This pinot noir hasn’t changed in 500 years

a herd of bison running by a car

What to do if you encounter a bison

By Laura Baisas

Gemini said An over-the-shoulder photograph shows a person training a small black dog on a polished wooden floor. The person, seen from the back in a grey sweater, holds up their hand in a "stay" or "wait" command gesture. The dog, a small black mixed-breed with floppy ears and a pink collar, sits attentively and looks up at the person with a focused expression.

Are some dog breeds really easier to train? Not really.

By RJ Mackenzie

The DENON Home 200, 400, and 600 Dolby Atmos-compatible wireless connected whole-home speaker collection on a table in front of a TV showing a DENON promotional loop

Denon’s refreshed Home speakers offer advanced spatial audio performance and versatile wireless connectivity

Red tulips blooming in the tulip fields in the northern Netherlands. Tulips rely on increasing temperatures to know when to bloom.

How plants know when to bloom

By Laura Baisas

NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on August 17, 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse). A background map from the Hubble Space Telescope identified the lightning source as an isolated “stealth superstorm.”

Jupiter’s lightning is 100 times stronger than Earth’s bolts

Beachgoers cleaning sargassum seaweed from beach in Caribbean

2026 Sargassum bloom on track to be the largest, smelliest season yet

Inscribed sling bullet (B19655) found at Hippos with the inscription ΜΑΘΟΥ, meaning "Learn your lesson!" Credit: Eisenberg et al. 2026

2,100 years ago, someone hurled a rock inscribed with ‘Learn your lesson!’

Over the shoulder view of child (8-9) using a pencil to practice handwriting the letters of the alphabet in cursive script

The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

A sperm whale and a photographer in the Atlantic Ocean near Portugal.

First-of-its-kind video confirms sperm whales really do headbutt

By Laura Baisas

amazon ego battery powered yard tool deals

Ego’s editor-approved mowers, trimmers, chainsaws, and more are down to their lowest prices ever at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

Robin song bird, nothing prettier then the basic robin in summer

4 myths about backyard birds, debunked

a green insect (left) the same insect, but it has changed to pink (right)

Green insect turns a puzzling shade of hot pink

By Nidhi Sharma

A person lies in bed under a white duvet, their face partially illuminated by a bright shaft of morning light filtering through dark, heavy curtains. They have one hand resting on their forehead in a gesture of fatigue or waking up, creating a moody, high-contrast atmosphere of early morning.

Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl? What the science says.

By Laura Kiniry

woman in front of crater

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

By Popular Science Team

a seal swimming amongst fish

16 award-winning photographs from around the world

By Popular Science Team

a larger brown-ish sea turtle sits on an exam table

Endangered Species

Hello Helvetica! Vets name rescued sea turtles named after fonts

By Nidhi Sharma

Bright tropical monstera leaves basking in sunlight

How much light houseplants actually need

By Debbie Wolfe

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Battle of Hastings

The biggest medieval march in English history never actually happened

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Wayfair is clearing out grilling gear up to 60% off during its spring Cyber Week sale

By Stan Horaczek

A full-body shot of a Dilophosaurus animatronic at Universal Studios, shown with its colorful neck frill fully extended. The dinosaur is depicted mid-spray, with a stream of water shooting from its open mouth, and is surrounded by dense artificial tropical foliage.

Ask Us Anything

What ‘Jurassic Park’ got wrong about venomous dinosaurs

By Popular Science Team

Young adult woman sitting on mat, performing a forward fold stretch, touching toes, engaged in pre-workout warm-up or post-workout cool-down routine at the fitness center

Fitness & Exercise

7 hamstring stretches recommended by a physical therapist

By Jordan Burchette

Art supplies on sale at Michael's

Michael’s is blowing out art supplies for up to 60% off during this end-of-season clearance sale

By Stan Horaczek

The Meze Audio ASTRU IEM sitting in front of its hardcase on a sunlit chair

Meze Audio ASTRU IEM review: A polished step up for listeners who value warmth and control

a row of collared t-shirts in rainbow order. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

Walmart and H&M are trying to turn carbon dioxide into clothes

By Mack DeGeurin

a postage stamp with a bison on it

New stamp honors Yellowstone’s iconic bison

By Nidhi Sharma

a baby lion runs into its mother's butt

14 silly, never-before-seen images from the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

Repeating image of skulls with increasing doubling, blurring, ghosting, pixelation, and horizontal glitching

‘Dune’ tried to warn us against AI

An artist's impression of a theoretical planet orbiting a redder star, which could cause microbes and plants on the planet's surface to reflect very different colours from Earth’s green forests. Gillis Lowry

The 45 planets most likely to host alien life, according to astronomers

two mating frogs with the male grasping on to the female

Even humans love a good mating call

By Laura Baisas

A black chess player about to win against a light-skinned cleric. Chess problem 88 in the Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas (Seville, 1283). Credit: Patrimonio Nacional. Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial

Medieval chess was more inclusive than the world around it

a coyote pup with brown fur tilts its head

Coyote pupping season is here. You can help keep them safe.

By Laura Baisas

man stands at register in video game

Relive the ’90s by working in a virtual video store

By Mack DeGeurin

The new SUPER73 A-Series M1D electric bike parked in front of a stack of chopped firewood

SUPER73 gives its California coastal cruiser an edit

A colorized historical photograph of prolific inventor Beulah Louise Henry, known as "Lady Edison," seated at a desk. She is dressed in a formal purple satin dress and pearls, operating a complex, specialized typewriter of her own design. She is looking down at a sheet of paper she is feeding into the machine.

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming ‘Lady Edison’

By Shoshi Parks

Cute labradoodle puppy dog laying down looking sad or thoughtful

Cockapoos, doodles, and other crossbreeds have behavioral problems, too

a large aqua colored mineralHeritage Auctions.

7 glittery minerals up for auction

By Popular Science Team

Two men standing next to boiler setup in pump station

Volunteers spend 30 years restoring a Victorian sewer pump station

The bark of birch trees has been used to produce tar for more than 150,000 years. The center photo shows birch bark tar condensed onto a rock that borders a hearth. When scraped off the rocks, the viscous tar can be used as both an adhesive and antibiotic.

Neanderthals used antibiotics, new experiment suggests

By Laura Baisas

Timeline of dress fahsions by decade from 1960 to 2010

Clothes really do come back in style every 20 years

A wide-angle, underwater photograph of a young sea lion with large, dark eyes and long whiskers looking directly into the camera lens. Sunlight beams down through the clear blue water, illuminating the sea lion's head and other sea lions swimming in the background. The foreground shows a rocky seabed covered in marine life, including several dark, spiny sea urchins.

How marine mammals stay hydrated in a salty sea

By Sara Kiley Watson

Wolfbox products on sale for spring

The Wolfbox Trail Season sale drops prices on dash cams, jump starters, and more by up to 50%

By Stan Horaczek

This is a photo of the Yosemite Valley taken from Tunnel View.

The 10 most popular US National Parks in 2025

By Popular Science Team

Golf ball sized hail resting in palm of a hand

NASA wants your hail photos

A meteor over Pittsburgh recorded on March 17, 2026

A meteor exploded over Ohio and Pennsylvania

Close up of bronze bull head sculpture held in palm

Hiker finds 3,000-year-old bull sculpture in Spain

a satellite image of ireland's west coast showing gray rocks surrounded by green

Ireland’s 250-million-year-old gray spot

By Laura Baisas

A conceptual graphic featuring a young child with an afro standing alone against a textured purple and orange gradient background. A large, empty white thought bubble floats significantly above their head.

Not everyone has an internal monologue

By Jennifer Byrne

A Marshall Bromley 450 portable Bluetooth speaker sitting in front of a Bromley 750 transportable Bluetooth speaker in the flatbed of a pickup truck

The Bromley 450 party speaker brings Marshall’s iconic aesthetic and Stereophonic sound to a tighter footprint

A Denon DP-500BT turntable sitting on a table between a Denon Home amp and Bowers & Wilkins Px8 headphones

The Denon DP-500BT turntable with Bluetooth is built for vinyl fans who value flexibility

Adult bull shark ‘Chunky’ (foreground) parallel swimming with subadult female ‘Lady Lazarus’ (background).

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

By Laura Baisas

An adult male blue crab attempts to cannibalize a smaller blue crab on a tether.

Blue crabs have a serious cannibalism problem

By Laura Baisas

Hisense TVs are on sale at Amazon

Amazon is clearing out last season’s Hisense TVs for up to 40% off

By Stan Horaczek

an illustration showing bronze age women weaaving

3,500-year-old loom tells a revolutionary tale

By Laura Baisas

Teenage high school student studying alone in the school library

This new RSS reader is the smartest way to keep up online

two pages of an ancient book. one has text while the other has an illustration of a saint

Long-lost page from Greek manuscript discovered in French art museum

By Margherita Bassi

Close up of woman using smart phone

5 clever iPhone tricks you might not know

a blue whale swimming

Marine biologists spot rare blue whales off Massachusetts coast

By Margherita Bassi

A conceptual photograph of a young woman with light-colored hair and a tattoo on her forearm, wearing a white t-shirt against a plain white background. The image uses a multiple-exposure effect to create several overlapping, translucent silhouettes of her figure, conveying a sense of disorientation, dizziness, or blurred vision. She has a pained or nauseated facial expression and is resting her head against her hand.

Why some people get motion sickness—and others don’t

By Laura Kiniry

kindle on table

7 Kindle settings you should change

a bird chick sits on a nest

The world’s oldest wild bird has a new grandchick

By Margherita Bassi

a bright red robot with large black wheels sits outside of a fire station

Autonomous firefighting robot can drive straight into a 1,000 degree blaze

By Mack DeGeurin