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two stalk-eyed flies fight on a stick. these flies have long antennae with eyeballs on the tips

Flies with shorter eye-stalks act aggressively because females are less attracted to them

By Laura Baisas

two rocks in foreground, milky way in background

12 breathtaking images from the 2024 Astrophotography Prize Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

A fusion experiment ran so hot that the wall materials facing the plasma retained defects.

How can we make nuclear fusion a reliable energy source one day?

By Sophie Blondel / The Conversation

Stop using Arial: How to change the default fonts in Google Docs

three photos: a rat holding orange string, a woman with a robot rat on her head and a robot rat with wires coming out of it

Meet the engineer who crafted a genius animatronic ‘Ratatouille’ Halloween costume

Equipment including an electrochemical reactor where seawater is split via electrolysis to capture carbon on a barge for UCLA's SeaChange climate change carbon removal project at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California on April 12, 2023. The project is now known as Equatic.

Marine carbon dioxide removal is about to go big

By Ramin Skibba / Hakai Magazine

The Winchcombe meteorite sits on display at the Natural History Museum on May 13, 2021 in London, England. The meteorite is a rare type, the first to fall in 30 years.

When a meteor smashes into your driveway

By Robin Andrews

HMS Trooper submarine wreckage

WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

Close up of FBI windbreaker jacket

Bitcoin bro searched ‘how can I know for sure if I am being investigated by the FBI’ before FBI arrest

How to use Gemini AI to ask questions about your Gmail inbox

First responders and residents alike are using drones to assess hurricane damage and search for missing persons.

Drones are playing a critical role in Milton and Helene recovery

By Mack DeGeurin

Migraine pain, a leading cause of disability, is now thought to start in the membranes surrounding the brain.

Studies of migraine’s many triggers offer paths to new therapies

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

several orange and black monarch butterflies dot large green leaves

Endangered Species

Scientists build rest stops for monarch butterflies on a volcano

By Laura Baisas

Ai-Da robot standing in front of two of its paintings at the United Nations

A humanoid robot’s painting called ‘AI God’ may sell for over $120,000

a close up of four pieces of sliced bread

Our love of delicious carbs may go back 800,000 years

By Laura Baisas

This photo taken during a media tour on October 11, 2024 shows the neutrino detector, a stainless steel and acrylic sphere around 35 meters in diameter, at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno) in Kaiping, in southern China's Guangdong province.

Particle Physics

China races to unlock one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics

A photograph showing two big and two little Pyrocystis noctiluca.

Why these plankton puff up to 6x bigger than normal

By Laura Baisas

A US Navy officer releases a weather balloon over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Today, the United States launches around 76,600 balloons annually to gather high-altitude weather data on air temperature, pressure, and humidity.

Weather forecasting is deadly for marine wildlife

By Danielle Beurteaux / Hakai Magazine

Could Ozempic and similar drugs be used to treat substance use disorders?

surgical equipment on table

Autopsy of 78-year-old man reveals he had three penises

a blue whale skeleton on display at a museum

Blue whale skeleton still leaking oil, 26 years after death

By Laura Baisas

Axiom and Prada designed a custom white fabric that can protect astronauts from extreme heat and dangerous lunar dust.

How Prada’s fancy Artemis III spacesuits work

By Mack DeGeurin

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell scaling Devil's Climb in Alaska

Rock climbing legend Alex Honnold talks his Devil’s Climb, Google Maps, and biking with wild horses

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

A farmer promotes taro through a live webcast in a field in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China, on Sept. 9, 2024.

Farms to fame: How China’s rural influencers are redefining country life

By Mitchell Gallagher / The Conversation

Sierra Space TCPS machine

International Space Station

ISS astronauts to test trash compactor that’s basically WALL-E

Researcher testing sensors and weights for fatigue monitoring

Wearable sensors monitor factory worker fatigue in real time

An architect's rendering of what Kairos' first demonstration mini nuclear reactor will look like when it's completed.

Google bets big on ‘mini’ nuclear reactors to feed its AI demands

By Mack DeGeurin

Moflin robot pet

Casio thinks an AI-powered furball can replace your pet

An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago, towering over a herd of Central Asian red deer. In the distance, a small band of prehistoric humans set up a campfire to cook their meal.

Mysterious elephant species uncovered with 87 prehistoric stone tools

By Laura Baisas

The surface of Europa – one of Jupiter’s moons – is a thick layer of solid ice.

Europa Clipper is one of two missions on their way to see if Jupiter’s moons could support life

By Mike Sori / The Conversation

a small frog with light green coloring and dark spots sits on a green leaf

Seven new frog species named for their ‘Star Trek’-esque calls

By Laura Baisas

man stands behind large pumpkin with scarecrow

Gargantuan pumpkin could flavor 74,794 pumpkin spice lattes

By Laura Baisas

green old car parked on the street

Bentley used original design drawings to meticulously recreate its 1930 Speed Six

By Kristin Shaw

Armenian sapphire (muscari armeniacum) flowers closeup. Shallow depth of field.

How to revamp your lawn’s reputation with bulbs

By Debbie Wolfe

Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain

By Virginia Iglesias / The Conversation

screenshot of iphone with 'esim' set up open

eSIMs explained: What they are, and how you can set one up

High-rise buildings made of mass timber are appearing in skylines around the world, including, from left, the Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee, and others in Skellefteå, Sweden; Brumunddal, Norway; Vienna; and Vancouver, Canada.

Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

By Kurt Kleiner/Knowable Magazine

a grey squirrel climbs out of a jack-o-lantern

How to squirrel-proof your pumpkins

By Debbie Wolfe

Migrating birds introduce forever chemicals into the food chain.

Migrating seabirds are bringing forever chemicals into the Arctic

By William von Herff / Hakai Magazine

This baby toque macaque was happily suckling milk from it's mother. It was so relaxed it almost fell asleep.

13 memorable and metal Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

By Popular Science Team

Fungi growing on circle and cross arrangement wood blocks

A simple experiment revealed the complex ‘thoughts’ of fungi

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right).

Building blocks of life on Earth originate from a relatively small amount of source material

Dragonfly wing on black background in neon light. Close-up.

To build a better dome, look to dragonfly wings

a lion skull with a close up on its teeth. one of the bottom teeth has a large black cavity.

These lions devoured 28 humans, wildebeest, and more in 1898

By Laura Baisas

The night sky in Wisconsin glows with the Northern Lights as a geomagnetic storm brings vibrant pink and green colors to a majority of the northern states.

Northern Lights dazzle in stunning photos from Key West to NYC to China

By Popular Science Staff

Concept art depicting the X-37B space plane aerobraking above Earth

Space Force’s mysterious X-37B is testing its ‘aerobraking’

Collecting arm hanging from drone.

Drone discovers hidden Hawaiian plant species

By Mack DeGeurin

a finch with a sharp beak and dark plumage holds a round seed in its beak

Scientists simulate calls of ‘future finches’

By Laura Baisas

Tampa Bay Rays Tropicana Stadium with roof destroyed by Hurricane Milton

Drone footage shows Hurricane Milton shredded Tropicana Field’s roof

a close-up of the planet jupiter's great red spot. it is a swirling red storm on the planet's more white and orange surface

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot jiggles like JELL-O

By Laura Baisas

The best last minute Amazon Prime Day Deals on a plain white background.

Prime Day is over—but you can still get these great deals if you act fast

Anker 24,000mAh 3-Port Laptop Power Bank Prime Big Deal Days.

This power bank can recharge a laptop, and it’s 40% off during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days sale

Eureka J20 robot vacuum in the corner of a room.

Eureka’s J20 robot vacuum is my favorite smart cleaning tool—and it’s $170 cheaper than usual on Prime Day

Close up of smallest Rubik's Cube being solved with tweezers

The world’s tiniest Rubik’s cube is as wide as 3 grains of rice

XGIMI Horizon Ultra on top of a bedframe.

The best 4K projector we have tested is marked down to its lowest price ever during Prime Day

an illustration of one woman yelling and another holding her hands up in shock

Why people insist they’re correct without all the facts

By Laura Baisas

Sonos Era 100 on top of a shelf.

Sonos’ Era 100 is my go-to smart speaker and it’s $49 cheaper this weekend

an illustration of a large hawk-like bird carrying a long tailed rodent in its claws

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos

By Laura Baisas

Video Still: Optically driven rotation of ZEEM torus on an air–glycerol interface.

Tiny, doughnut-shaped robot can swim through snot

By Mack DeGeurin

tropicana sign outside hotel

Watch 2,200 pounds of explosives implode the Tropicana Las Vegas

By Popular Science Team

TIKI’s Smokeless Fire Pit is the best way to upgrade your backyard and it’s $180 off for Prime Day

close up of bumblebee against blue background

Stressed bees are pessimistic pollinators

Illustration: HIP 41378 f is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star. Its mass is 0.233 Jupiters and it takes 3 years to complete one orbit of its star. Its discovery was announced in 2016.

What if ‘cotton candy’ planets are actually Ring Pops?

By Briley Lewis