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a walrus calf with a cut on its right eye is cared for by two technicians

Abandoned Pacific walrus calf rescued in Alaska

By Laura Baisas

dead bird specimens with blue and green plumage in museum storage

All living birds share an ‘iridescent’ ancestor

By Laura Baisas

TOP: A relay participant dives off the blocks in the Women’s 4 x 100m final during the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. BOTTOM: American Alex Walsh swims in Arena’s Powerskin Primo.

The evolution of Olympic swimwear: From wool ‘costumes’ to tensoelastic race suits

By Laura Baisas

Are you a workaholic? Here’s how to spot the signs

Are you a workaholic? Here’s how to spot the signs

By Chris Woolston / Knowable Magazine

Historical artistic interpretation of an ouroboros. It is a dragon eating its own tail.

AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage

By Mack DeGeurin

Elderly woman listening to music happily

Our memory of music persists in old age

By Mack DeGeurin

a purple race track, with whit lane lines

Paris Olympics’ purple track is made with crushed mussel and clam shells

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an long cylindrical arthropod. it has big blue eyes, a body that looks like a taco shell, several short red legs, and a tail

This taco-shaped critter is a big (evolutionary) deal

By Laura Baisas

Why millions are trying FDA-authorized alternatives to Big Pharma’s weight loss drugs

By Arthur Allen/KFF Health News

Entertainment app on iphone 14 pro in smartphone screen close up view

How to request all the data Netflix, Spotify, and other apps have on you

Ready or not, here come the police drones

By Mack DeGeurin

four red hens in a line. two are looking straight ahead, one is looking right, and the other is looking left. they have an expression that reads as suprise

Not to ruffle feathers, but chickens blush

By Laura Baisas

In the foreground to the left is a sphere half illuminated on the right side, almost filling the image vertically. The surface consists of several parallel, pale-coloured bands aligned horizontally. To the top right is a much smaller orange, circular light source, illuminating the large sphere in the foreground. The background is black with numerous tiny white dots.

Space Telescope

JWST detects a new exoplanet six times larger than Jupiter

Tree bark demonstrates an unexpected climate superpower

By Lauren Leffer

an illustration of two mouse-like animals in a forest, with a stegosaurus walking by and a mosquito flying over them

Baby teeth reveal surprisingly long lifespans of small Jurassic mammals

By Laura Baisas

Mercury colorful

What ‘Mercury in retrograde’ actually means

By Briley Lewis

a digital illustration of AI

Everyone is judging AI by these tests, but experts say they’re close to meaningless

By Jon Keegan / The Markup

various bird bones out on a table

Neanderthals ate birds. But how?

By Laura Baisas

a peacock butterfly on a pink plant. its wings are primarily red, with black, yellow, and blue circles

Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

By Laura Baisas

Ram 1500 Revolution Battery-electric Vehicle (BEV) Concept front three-quarters

Ram’s vision for a three-row pickup truck could be closer to reality than you think

By Kristin Shaw

Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching ocean in an attack.

Sharks are testing positive for cocaine

25 images of space

Space Telescope

NASA drops 25 dazzling images to celebrate Chandra X-ray space telescope

By Popular Science Team

Close up of pills in blister packs

How will astronauts handle expired drugs on Mars?

sky blue car parked in front of dirt and grass hill

Electric Vehicles

The 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is the EV that driving enthusiasts have been waiting for

By Bradley Iger

Conceptual illustration of a drone delivering medical supplies

Rescue from above: How drones may narrow emergency response times

By Michelle Andrews / KFF Health News

VERO four legged robot vacuuming cigarette butts

This plodding robot sucks up cigarette butts

a circle and pi = 3.14 written on a chalkboard

Math teacher argues Pi Day should be July 22

Plane cabin lighting simulating sunset

Simulated sunrises and sunsets in planes may reduce jet lag

five chimpanzeess sitting in tall, green grass

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

By Laura Baisas

Polymetallic nodules scattered across bottom of the ocean floor

‘Dark oxygen’ on ocean floor may rewrite Earth’s origins of life

a brown dog looks up with a longing expression

Your dog can probably smell your stress

By Laura Baisas

view from airplane

Climate change is making turbulence worse

By Lauren Leffer

Thick clouds of fine particulate matter blow off China in this 2016 satellite photo (oriented with north to the left).

How the Blob was born

By Michael Allen / Hakai Magazine

a person in a gas mask with 'death sand' on the screen

The sand that (almost) killed millions

By Popular Science Team

An old female rhesus macaque eats alone on the island of Cayo Santiago. As female macaques age, the size of their social network shrinks.

It’s not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age

By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine

a crocodile, kangaroos, and shark

15 photographs documenting the silly, serene, and savage side of the animal kingdom

By Popular Science Team

a pile of books on a wooden table

Why you should buy physical copies of your favorite books

a bear lays flat on its belly on a rocky beach with its legs projected backwards

It’s sploot season: Animals strike a pose to chill out

By Popular Science Team

Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.

Space Telescope

400 years of telescopes: A window into our study of the cosmos

By Bill Gourgey

photo of an iphone screen with imessage icon showing one new message

This iPhone feature will filter out spam and texts from people you don’t know

a flat map of the planet jupiter, showing reddish-orange lines and the planet's great red spot

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps shrinking

By Laura Baisas

This rotifer has just survived a life-threatening infection. When a fungal disease attacked, she switched on hundreds of genes that her ancestors copied from microbes, including antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria.

No sex? No problem. These tiny, asexual animals steal genes to make their own medicine

By Lauren Leffer

Solar farm panels in meadow

There’s a right and a wrong way to build a solar farm

a bee kicks away an ant

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

Outages have hit at least eight states this year.

The nation’s 911 system is on the brink of its own emergency

By Stephanie Armour / KFF Health News

Hundreds of thousand of athletes and visitors attending this year’s Olympics could have their movements analyzed by a real-time AI video surveillance tool.

Swimming, soccer, and surveillance: Paris preps for an AI-monitored Olympics

By Mack DeGeurin

NASA VIPER Rover

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

Martian landscape simulation room in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton

Stegosaurus ‘Apex’ sold for nearly $45 million to a billionaire

Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.

Particle Physics

How the Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year

By Riccardo Maria Bianchi / The Conversation

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii

Two Pompeii skeletons reveal a new story of death at mega disaster

By Laura Baisas

What does a pug skull look like? University digitizes skulls of 152 dog breeds.

By Popular Science Team

Nubian spitting cobra (

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

a 3D rendering of three early humans butchering a giant armadillo

Early humans butchered enormous armadillos

By Laura Baisas

Tiny drones have can only carry very small computer processors with little computation and memory. This makes it very challenging for them to navigate by themselves, as current state-of-the-art approaches to autonomous navigation are computation- and memory intensive.

Bug brains could help drone swarms find their way home

By Mack DeGeurin

Nebula’s tiny Capsule 3 portable projector is $100 off during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

Nebula’s tiny Capsule 3 portable projector is $100 off during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

A team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among transiting planets. The exoplanet’s extreme circuit — which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle — follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. The planet, , named TIC 241249530, is also orbiting its star backwards, lending insight into the mystery of how close-in massive gas planets, known as hot Jupiters, form, stabilize and evolve over time.

Newly discovered exoplanet’s orbit is like a ‘cucumber’

Rumpl blankets arranged in a row

Amazon Prime Day editor’s pick: Rumpl’s super-fancy camping blankets get a rare deep discount

By Stan Horaczek

a large SUV parked in front of a colonial-style building. palm trees in the background

2024 GMC Acadia’s new engine is smaller, but more powerful

By Kristin Shaw

a long, dark brown millipede crawling on brown and green leaves

Expedition finds a 10-inch long millipede lost to science for 126 years

By Laura Baisas

The English women's athletics team, the appearance of the first UK female athletes at international Olympics, Sweden, Stockholm 1912.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Olympics has been obsessed with sex for centuries

By Popular Science Team

How animals use physics

By Tom Siegfried / Knowable Magazine

Celestron telescopes on a plain background on-sale for Prime Day

Grab a great deal on a Celestron telescope during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek