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several dark dots on mummified skin. the skin appears to be white since it is under a strong white light

Intricate tattoos on 1,200-year-old mummy revealed by lasers

By Laura Baisas

3D printed microscope

The world’s first 3D-printed microscope costs only $60 to build

Fossil pine trees in Montana

Thawing tundra reveals ancient fossilized forest in Montana

a blue lobster-looking animal called a crayfish. it has long claws, antennae, and a segmented body

New colorful species of crayfish discovered in aquarium shipment

By Laura Baisas

Alcohol empty glasses Dry January

Is drinking alcohol ever good for you? Here’s what the science says.

By Lauren Leffer

CES 2025: 18 new products we’re looking forward to this year

By Tony Ware, Stan Horaczek

3D Isometric Flat Vector Illustration of User Manual, Info Hub, Providing Valuable Information To Users

How to use Google Deep Research to save hours of time

a land mass surrounded by water

14 gorgeous photos of Earth from above

By Popular Science Team

two photos: one of people standing in front of shuttle and one of the shuttle in an upright position

How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle

By Keith Wagstaff

Close up of silver hands from silver poisoning

Mysterious silver poisoning turned an 84-year-old gray for good

Woman's hands using fork to stir bowl of pasta

Physicists figure out the perfect Cacio e Pepe recipe

a small bird sits in a tree with its beak open wide

Why do birds make so many different sounds? 100,000 audio recordings offer clues.

By Laura Baisas

Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper dumping water over wildfire

Civilian drone grounds LA firefighting plane

a skull next to a yellow note that reads: "Skull from Ephesus.”

Sorry, this skull does not belong to Cleopatra’s sister

By Laura Baisas

a car in a steel room

Electric Vehicles

Inside Nissan’s extreme weather testing facility

By Kristin Shaw

Takeshi Ebisawa holding rocket launcher

Yakuza boss tried to traffic nuclear weapons-grade plutonium

Planet Mercury in the background with its grey, cratered, pockmarked surface. In the foreground are some spacecraft parts

Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images

By Laura Baisas

a yellow cardinal sits on a tree branch

Extremely rare yellow cardinal flies into a Michigan backyard

By Laura Baisas

MSI Dragon edition laptop

I saw MSI’s new flagship gaming laptops, and there’s one I really want

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire while it burns homes at Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

This crowdsourcing app is a lifeline for Californians tracking wildfires

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of hand holding pencil solving crossword puzzle

Why crossword puzzles get easier as you solve them, according to physics

a scientist weather a larger winder coat and hat examines a cylindrical piece of ice

1.2-million-year-old ice pulled up from under Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

Dimmable car sun visor

This company wants to redesign the humble car sun visor

Atmospheric photo of the site at dusk, showing the location at the convergence of two gorges. 2023 excavations of inner fortress are visible in foreground.

Drone reveals ancient fortress is 40x larger than archaeologists once thought

By Mack DeGeurin

Interior of plane cabin with sunlight coming in from window

The FAA is finally looking into sweltering airplane cabins

a green glow of bioluminescence from a mushroom

Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest

By Laura Baisas

Three red ants interacting with one another

Even ants may hold grudges

Certain medications can interfere with with normal sleep architecture.

Why your brain flushes itself of waste during sleep

cancer cells microscope

AI is already changing the ways we fight cancer

By Mack DeGeurin

a small brown fish swimming in a tank

These fish can mate 19 times per day

By Laura Baisas

KOU-III robot jumping on lawn

Behold the hybrid copter-robot that struts and leaps like a chicken

a tomb in a desert

Archaeologists find the 4,000-year-old tomb of an overachieving Egyptian magician

By Laura Baisas

sensors visible Waymo robotaxi

Aerodynamic sensors could speed up autonomous vehicles

By Mack DeGeurin

Toyota's Woven City at dusk with Mount Fuji in background

Electric Vehicles

Welcome to Woven City: Toyota offers first glimpse at futuristic town

a long whale shark with gray spots swims in the ocean

Whale shark pre-mating ritual observed for the first time

By Laura Baisas

a bird with white and black plummage and an egg on a nest and three other birds standing around her

Which animals reproduce at the oldest age?

By Laura Baisas

Yellowstone's Wolf 907F walking in the snow

Yellowstone’s ‘Queen of the Wolves’ dies after fight with rival pack

A general view of (L-R) the church of Santi Luca e Martina, the Arch of Septimius Severus, the ruins of the Temple of Saturn and - in the background - the Amphitheatrum Flavium, commonly known as Colosseum (in Italian: Colosseo), on March 31, 2024 in Rome, Italy.

Ancient lead pollution may have lowered IQs across the Roman Empire

By Lauren Leffer

Roman stone coffin being excavated in England

Construction crew discovers Roman stone coffin under British road

Concept art of Artemis astronauts in lunar crater with lunar rover

NASA is calibrating new clocks so people can live on the moon

a baby pygmy hippo in an indoor tank with its mother nearby

Endangered Species

Newest pygmy hippo born on US soil gets a name

By Laura Baisas

a woman nuzzles a dog

Meet the former musher investigating sled dog genetics

By Laura Baisas

screenshot of meta's ai

Where to find Meta AI in Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram—and what you can do with it

a puffin, whale tail at sunset, and a sea turtle

13 dramatic photos that capture the beauty of marine sanctuaries

By Popular Science Team

hands on a windows laptop

How to read text from images on Windows

Roboticists at the Tallinn University of Technology have developed a new class of bio-inspired feet that significantly enhance robot mobility on challenging terrains like mud and wet snow.

Dog robots can trek through mud using moose-inspired hooves

Statue of Emperor Liu He

Researchers make brandy in replica of disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old tomb distillery

a brown dog ups up onto a tree and sniffs it, while its human handler points to what it is sniffing

Sniffing dogs join the fight against invasive spotted lanternflies

By Laura Baisas

Creepy robot toddler can mimic human expressions

Baby spider monkey in a pink onesie

Endangered Species

Endangered baby monkey found clinging to driver of speeding Rolls Royce

Hula hooping robot video still

Scientists identify the perfect hula hoop ‘body type’

a dark brown moray eel

New ‘Hades’ moray eel discovered by accident

By Laura Baisas

a microsoft laptop on a table

Everything you can do with Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant on Windows

a car body in a repair shop

Inside the company ripping apart classic Porsche 911s to restore them with impeccable detail

By Kristin Shaw

meteors fall in the night sky near a lighthouse

January stargazing: Ring in 2025 with a meteor shower, ‘planet parade,’ and best chance to spot Mars

By Laura Baisas

planes and astronauts collage

5 aerospace breakthroughs of 2024

By Popular Science Team

(Original Caption) 1938-Close-up of the very front end of a 1938 Cadillac La Salle. This smaller counterpart to the Cadillac features a smaller radiator grille, and four headlights, as well as the hood ornament and bumper.

Ask Us Anything

Why don’t cars have hood ornaments anymore?

By Kristin Shaw

Lamborghini Miura junkyard auction car

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

headset, smartphone, camera, chip, drone

Best of What's New

The 5 greatest gadget innovations of 2024

By Stan Horaczek

SLIM landed upside down.

10 chaotic space-related mishaps of 2024

two foxes walking

15 marvelous Nature Photographer of the Year 2024 images

By Popular Science Team

ring, hair dryers, water flosser, bed

Best of What's New

5 personal care innovations that lived up to the hype in 2024

By Rachel Feltman

Flat lay of woman hands printing in laptop standing on yellow background

How to use Google Docs templates to boost your productivity

A Waymo robotaxi Jaguar I-PACEs driverless car makes a stop in downtown Los Angeles Monday, March 11, 2024.

2024 was the year robotaxis proved they are here to stay

By Mack DeGeurin