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mars the planet

NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s

By Joel S. Levine / The Conversation

five toothbrushes in a cup on a bathroom sink

The next lifesaving antibiotic might be a virus on your toothbrush

By Laura Baisas

three photos showing aurora from space

Astronaut shares dazzling footage of aurora from space

By Popular Science Team

Dangbei Atom Projector on a bed frame.

The best mini projector I’ve ever tested is $220 off for Prime Day

Nine Iranian swords analyzed in this study.

Iron Age swords revealed as ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ black market forgeries

TCL QM8 on top of a TV Stand.

TCL’s 75-inch QM85 TV blew my mind—and it’s $670 off for Prime Day

Spicy foods: The unlikely new frontier in placebo research

Cuisinart Culinary Collection 12-Piece Pots and Pans Set on an electric range.

Our favorite PFAS-free cookware is over 30% off during Amazon Prime Day

‘Godfather of AI’ wins Nobel Prize for work he fears threatens humanity

By Mack DeGeurin

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The best Prime Big Deal Days deals under $50

Michael Artiaga beats Tetris by getting a rebirth

Is Tetris infinite? Teen world champ reaches fabled ‘rebirth’

two oval comb jellyfish fusing together as one

Two comb jellies can fuse together into one–and keep both butts

By Laura Baisas

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The best Prime Day deals under $25

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The best Prime Day deals under $100

girl getting water from faucet

Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk, to dentists’ dismay

By Michael Schulson/Undark

Jackery solar generators arranged in a pattern on-sale for Prime Day

Grab a Jackery solar generator for the lowest price this year during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Breville Smart Oven Air Fryer Pro

Ditch your air fryer for our favorite smart oven during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Bose QuietComfort Ultra II Earbuds in a tiled configuration.

Bose makes the best noise-cancelling earbuds we’ve tried—and they’re $70 off right now

Leaf cutter ants

The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

a map concept illustration with place markers

How to use Google Maps Timeline to revisit past trips

Brown tarantulas mating

Male tarantulas seek love, find death around Halloween

Nurse putting blood pressure monitor arm band on patient

How to ensure your doctor measures your blood pressure correctly

a blue convertible on a mountain road

The 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed sounds posh

iRobot Roomba Q011 in a tiled configuration.

Get a Roomba for just $140 with this early Amazon Prime Big Deal Days deal

How the Forest Service is trying to save Appalachian ginseng

By Katie Myers/Grist

a penguin looks at the camera while swimming in icy waters

14 soaring and stunning images from 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

The most famous mystery science might never solve

By Popular Science Team

Young Cuckoo, Canorus cuculus, in Reed Warblers nest in reedbed, Norfolk UK.

Are you my baby? The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds

By Sofia Quaglia / Knowable Magazine

a phone with chat gpt open on it

ChatGPT remembers things about you now. But you can switch its memory off.

This picture shows many tiny cells in which DNA is abundantly included inside the cells.

Oldest living microbes found in 2-billion-year-old rock

Side by side of nature camera and brown bear

How the Fat Bear Week crew gets that beautiful bear footage

Geckos have a ‘sixth sense’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a grayish brown wombat walking next to shrubs

Can wombats kill with their butts? We found the hard truth.

By Laura Baisas

choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa

We are family: Tracing the evolution of animals

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

USS Stewart bow shipwreck with barnacles and crabs

‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ rediscovered with underwater drones

The ‘voices’ that people with schizophrenia hear could be echoes of their own vocalizations

Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured at different time overlapped on top of it.

The sun’s magnetic field is where the ‘stuff’ is. It can be dangerous.

By Laura Baisas

Cybertruck in showroom

Electric Vehicles

Recalled Cybertruck rearview camera was so slow it was illegal

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling

By Mack DeGeurin

a microscope image of a small crustacean with a round body, two large antennae come from its head, and several small legs

Sorry, zooplankton don’t want to eat your poop

By Laura Baisas

The poachers who could save Mexico’s vaquita

By Daniel Shailer / Hakai Magazine

Voyager 2 diagram with equipment labeled

NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power

The best PFAS-free cookware of 2024 on a plain white background.

The best PFAS-free cookware, tested and reviewed

a dolphin in a tank with an open mouth

Bottlenose dolphins ‘smile’ to say it’s time to play

By Laura Baisas

3D rendering of all ~140k neurons in the fruit fly brain.

Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time

Lightning strike at night

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

In the 1950s, transistor technology allowed smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard.

Congress is trying to force carmakers to keep AM radio

By Matthew Jordan / The Conversation

JUICE image of Earth's radiation belt

NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt

Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat's malleable wings.

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

By Mack DeGeurin

Montana Mountain King sheep

Endangered Species

Montana breeder of illegal, giant sheep hybrid clones gets 6 months in prison

People who work around dry, dusty conditions are at a higher risk of contracting valley fever.

Epidemiologists explain how to protect yourself from valley fever

By Jennifer Head, et al / The Conversation

an illustration of an orange dot orbiting a larger orangish body in space

Astronomers discover a new exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to the sun

By Laura Baisas

a green supercar covered in dirt

3 ultra-rare Lamborghini Miuras unearthed at junkyard. They could sell for millions.

By Kristin Shaw

screenshot on an iphone of apple asking 'how do you want to add contacts' option in ios18

Stop iPhone apps from accessing all your contacts in iOS 18

Chinese lunar spacesuit

China debuts its moon mission spacesuits

Group of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on haulout, Vaygach island, Barents sea

Walrus DNA suggests meetings between Vikings and Indigenous Inuit

woman riding a motorcycle in a green field

Electric Vehicles

Can-Am’s first motorcycles in decades set the (handle)bar high for e-motorbikes

By Kristin Shaw

mount everest with a wide river below

Mount Everest is still growing taller

By Laura Baisas

Tesla electric Cybertruck parked in the shopping plaza. Front view.

Electric Vehicles

$8,000 ‘Full Self-Driving Mode’ is finally in select Cybertrucks

a person holding an iphone taking a photo of the arc de triomphe in paris

7 helpful iPhone features to use on your next vacation

a bright green meteor streaks across the sky over cliffs

October’s skies bring an oddball meteor and a shiny new comet–if you’re lucky

By Laura Baisas

Artwork of cubesats in the sky.

CubeSats, the tiniest of satellites, are changing the way we explore the solar system

By Mustafa Aksoy / The Conversation

the moment a jaguar delivers a fatal bite to the head of a caiman in a muddy river.

11 unforgettable scenes from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team