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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

Lego Full Scale McLaren P1 driving

LEGO built a full-scale, drivable McLaren P1 model

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen.

Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its larvae

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of AST Spacemobile Bluewalker 3 above Earth

Private Space Flight

Five new massive satellites outshine most evening stars

a tv on a dresser

How to use the Matter smart home standard: The best way to get all your devices talking to one another

Woman working at desk with face mask on while sick

The research supports you taking a sick day

This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our Sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.

Searching for the secrets behind the Little Red Dots

By Fabio Pacucci / The Conversation

Conspiracy theories hat

How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind

By Mack DeGeurin

a reservoir in colombia with very low water levels due to drought

Mega El Niños helped kill 90 percent of life on Earth

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of the cases where one impulse Δv = 10−1 m s−1 from a small asteroid impact has been applied to Apophis.

Astrophysicist predicts (slightly) higher chance for major asteroid impact in 2029

Contrail clouds from passing jet planes streak the sky over the Utah desert.

Ask Us Anything

Why airplanes leave white streaks in the sky

By Lauren Leffer

tv remote pointed at tv

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

By Elisabeth Rosenthal/KFF Health News

person in space suit above earth

Polaris Dawn astronauts complete historic first commercial spacewalk

an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat

The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

neanderthal teeth in a cave

Neanderthals’ social isolation may have sped up their extinction

By Laura Baisas

A bullet train passes below Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Japan will test self-driving bullet trains in 2028

NASA astronaut Ed White free floating in space during a spacewalk in 1965.

How does Polaris Dawn fit into the history of spacewalks?

By Briley Lewis

Lasius emarginatus

This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

By Popular Science Team

microbes in the sky

The sky is full of germs

By Lauren Leffer

Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes

Hardt Hyperloop used magnetic levitation to lift a pod up and propel it through a test track at 18 miles per hour.

Hyperloop’s not dead, apparently

By Mack DeGeurin

an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth

‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth

By Laura Baisas

Polaris Dawn Crew Dragon capsule detaching from SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Polaris Dawn is on its way to attempt first-ever commercial spacewalk

child playing with fidget spinner

Ask Us Anything

Does fidgeting really help you focus?

By Lauren Leffer

Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells—as shown here—once fired from German battleships.

The big Baltic bomb cleanup

By Paul Hockenos / Hakai Magazine

a whale surfaces next to a large fishing trawler

Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.

By Laura Baisas

People taking photos of the new iPhone 16 Pro with their iPhones

Hands on: Apple introduces new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches

Mini mum is one of the smallest frogs in the world, described by Mark D. Scherz and his colleagues in 2019. These tiny frogs from southeastern Madagascar live in amongst the leaf litter and feed on tiny mites. They are amongst the target species of the GEMINI project, because their closest relatives are ten times larger.

Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals

Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs

By Mack DeGeurin

Electrostatic hydraulic robot leg

Oil-filled ‘muscles’ give this robot leg a spring in its step

an x-ray image of an eel escaping from a fish's stomach

Watch an eel escape a fish’s stomach through its gills

By Laura Baisas

Starship Titanic promo art displaying the ship's in-game bots

The improbable voyage of Starship Titanic, the 1998 Douglas Adams video game filled with ‘unhinged’ chatbots

How to create custom AI chatbots in Google Gemini

The Boeing Starliner.

The Boeing Starliner has returned to Earth without its crew. Now what?

By Michael E. Fossum / The Conversation

text says "VR in 1994" with photo of backpack device

Interactor: The ’90s VR backpack gamers hated

By Popular Science Team

Early warning systems save lives during disasters.

How to sign up for local emergency alerts before natural disasters strike

By Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett / The Markup

jars filled with different types of fruits and vegetables in liquid

How to start pickling food

By Debbie Wolfe

two images: an astronaut on a spacewalk and a scuba diver

Astronauts and aquanauts: What does the sea have to do with space?

By Alisha McDarris

What’s that smell—and how’d you know?

By Daniela Hirschfeld / Knowable Magazine

the google tasks interface on a cell phone

Google Tasks is the best Google tool you’re not using

an illustration of a striped tasmanian tiger with sharp teeth eating the body of a wombat-like creature

New bone-crushing Tasmanian tiger species dug up by paleontologists

By Laura Baisas

A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom

NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit

Turns out, micro and nano plastics degrade differently.

Scientists finally get a 3D view of degrading microplastics

By Mack DeGeurin