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two baseballs held in two hands. one is bright white and the other is coated with a brown mud

Baseball’s legendary ‘magic mud’ finally analyzed by scientists

By Laura Baisas

truck in the sand

How the 2025 Ram 1500 RHO squeezes more power from fewer cylinders

By Kristin Shaw

Illustration of a terror bird standing by river

Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall

Ask Us Anything

Without humans, what would happen to Earth?

By Lauren Leffer

screenshot of "gooseberry bush" bookmark in apple maps

How to remember your favorite places using Apple Maps

a man on a walkie talkie as runners go by

Meet the ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the New York Marathon running smoothly

purple bubbles on stick-like thing

Invisible to the naked eye: 15 gorgeous images captured under a microscope

By Popular Science Team

screenshot of "save visible" option in firefox window

How to take screenshots (and scrolling screenshots) of webpages

ISS's first crew poses during water survival training.

International Space Station

November 2, 2000: The first residents move into the International Space Station

By Bill Gourgey

a military-like sports car

There’s a real Wayne Enterprises, and it’s selling a $3 million Batmobile

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with ISS Crew-9

NASA warns SpaceX over safety issues after astronaut hospitalization

Beaten biscuit automated machine

Maryland historical society finally identifies 100-year-old mystery machine

two sperm whales singing

New method for finding sperm whales kind of works like a rideshare app

By Laura Baisas

The uber-optimistic history and prolonged future of space tourism

The uber-optimistic history and prolonged future of space tourism

By Bill Gourgey

Phobos passing across Sun as seen by Perseverance rover on Mars

Googly-eyed potato eclipse filmed by NASA’s Perseverance rover

Studying WWII-era rationing shows that sugar is dangerous even in utero

By Lauren Leffer

a small bat glides over water

How these tiny bats use a sound map to navigate

By Laura Baisas

autonomous atlas

Oh good, the humanoid robots are working on their own

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of YouTube homepage on computer screen

YouTube is full of election lies, and no one is stopping it

a white fungus with large red droplets that look like blood

That’s not blood, it’s a fungus oozing excess juice

By Laura Baisas

A Leonids meteor streaks across the sky over Ankara, Turkey on November 17, 2020.

November’s sky lights up with three meteor showers and the last supermoon of 2024

By Laura Baisas

Geospatial scientists have found a way to detect plastic waste on remote beaches, bringing us closer to global monitoring options.

Satellite imaging can now spot plastic trash hiding on beaches

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of C-17 cargo plane

Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

a tadpole swimming

A rock in Argentina turns out to be the oldest tadpole fossil ever found

By Laura Baisas

Thalattosuchian skulls. Showing the semi-aquatic species (A and B), and the fully aquatic metriorhynchid (C).

Why don’t we have deep sea crocodiles?

A graphic depicting the inner workings of a 2024 Toyota Mirai, showing the vehicle's hydrogen storage system, fuel cell, and electric motor.

Ask Us Anything

Why aren’t we driving hydrogen powered cars yet? There’s a reason EVs won.

By Harriet Weber

a large rat wearing a red vest holds a dark, round, ball

Giant three-pound rats trained to sniff out illegal poaching

By Laura Baisas

a brown and black spider money sits in a green and leafy tree with a large, round, yellow fruit in its mouth

‘Drunk’ animals might be more common

By Laura Baisas

Boston Dynamic's Spot getting kicked in a routine test.

Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy

By Mack DeGeurin

View of the bow of the RMS Titanic photographed in June 2004 by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck of the Titanic.

A hunk of coal from the Titanic could fetch $780 at auction

Male Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) in flight

Feather-inspired wing flaps may prevent planes from stalling

A malabar gliding frog struggles and holds on to twigs to try and escape from the venomous, strong bite of its predator - a Malabar pit viper. The viper didn't let go of the frog, and the frog didn't let go of the twigs either, until it had a little life left in it. However, the frog had to give up finally, and the snake won, and swallowed this beautiful green frog. This is a stack of two images, one for frog eyes, and another for the snake's eyes. We had almost given up hopes of finding any subjects in the rainforest of Agumbe, India, due to heavy rains, but decided to stop at one last place on the way back to our stay, and this was our lucky and only find for the night.

16 brutal and captivating wildlife images from the Close-up Photographer of the Year shortlist

By Popular Science Team

An illustration of Lomankus edgecombei. This arthropod lived about 538 to 485 million years ago in dark and low-oxygen environments.

450-million-year-old arthropod found preserved in fool’s gold

By Laura Baisas

a man in a rescue jacket sits on the snow with a dog. a helicopter is landing in the background

As winter approaches, avalanche dogs train for rescues

By Alisha McDarris

Side by side of mummy entering CT scanner with two images of a mummy's skull scan

3D scans reveal secrets of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s coffin

a rare dime in a protective case. it is missing the “S” that indicates it was struck at the San Francisco mint.

Ultra-rare dime sells for $506,250

By Laura Baisas

Silhouette of a loving couple hugging and kissing at sunset on the beach.

The origins of kissing may have a lot to do with body hair

Hydra vulgaris.

Are any animals truly ‘immortal’? These creatures defy biological time.

By Lauren Leffer

Janet Leigh screaming during iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

Ask Us Anything

Why do jump scares terrify us so much? Blame evolution.

A drone, bluetooth speaker, rumpl blanket, kindle arranged in a pattern

The Popular Science Holiday Gift Guide

By Brandt Ranj, Stan Horaczek, Tony Ware, Amanda Reed

a black race car on a track in front of a hill

Pirelli’s ‘Cyber Tire’ technology uses a tiny sensor to transmit big data

By Kristin Shaw

hand holding a phone with emergency sos feature open

How to use the emergency satellite features on Google Pixel and iPhone

screenshot of rufus working

How to use Rufus AI to shop smarter on Amazon

a polavision camera and tapes on a table

Popular Science Videos

‘I traveled 8,000 miles for the camera that killed Polaroid’

two photos: on the left a cat shelter made from campaign signs. on the right: a tabby cat in grass

How to upcycle campaign signs into cat shelters

By Debbie Wolfe

Microwave Oven close up shot. microwave is open with 57 seconds on clock

You need to clean your microwave more often. Here’s how.

By Debbie Wolfe

Sensors spread throughout the garden will measure the garden soil for changes in temperature, moisture, and other environmental factors.

AI helps plants tell you when they are thirsty

By Mack DeGeurin

A tiny home made using the nacelle casing from a wind turbine

Recycled wind turbines may one day become tiny homes and floating playgrounds

a 900 year old skeleton

Tooth powder unlocks clues to an 800-year-old mystery of man thrown into well

By Laura Baisas

a rider in a headless horseman costume rides by yellow fall leaves

The Headless Horseman shares her secrets

By Laura Baisas

There is an economic argument for building out America’s public EV charging infrastructure.

Electric Vehicles

Public EV chargers are good for the planet. They’re also good for business.

By Tik Root/Grist

Jumping carp disrupt recreational boating and other water-based activities.

Chicago’s dirty water may be keeping invasive species at bay

By Lauren Leffer

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says the first illness linked to the contaminated Quarter Pounders was reported in September.

Why McDonald’s E. coli outbreak could be a sign of more to come

By Mack DeGeurin

Tardigrades were exposed to heavy doses of gamma rays—high-energy photons that are one form of ionizing radiation—and researchers then studied how their systems responded.

Researchers start to unravel the secrets of tardigrade radiation resilience

A nearly 15-foot-long Burmese python devours a 77-pound deer in Florida.

Burmese pythons stretch their mouths even wider than we thought possible

a man wearing a NASA hat aboard the International Space Station squirts ketchup into his mouth. the ketchup comes out in one long stream

See (and never unsee) a NASA astronaut eating ketchup in space

By Laura Baisas

The first few hundred digits of the prime number M136279841

Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number

two pink flamingoes. both are standing on one leg

How long can you stand on one leg? What it says about your health.

By Laura Baisas

Neither candidate has talked much about space policy on the campaign trail, but both have records to consider.

How Harris and Trump differ on space policy

By Thomas G. Roberts / The Conversation

FastRig wing-sail deployed on cargo ship at dock

A nuclear waste tanker ship is testing a 65-foot-tall wing-sail

dark woods with fog

Corrupt government officials, illness among the biggest fears of 2024

By Laura Baisas

'Electro-agriculture' prototype.

‘Electro-agriculture’ may help plants grow in the dark

a black hole with orange and blue light swirling around it. two other objects, a large orange circle and a smaller bright orange star orbit around it

First ‘black hole triple’ may have formed in a surprisingly gentle way

By Laura Baisas

Jeff VanderMeer next to book cover for Absolution

Science Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer talks about his new novel and ‘deranged court jester’ Elon Musk