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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

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Psychology can explain your childhood crush on a cartoon character

By Popular Science Team

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

The best Prime Day deals under $50 on a plain white background.

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

The best Prime Day deals under $25 on a plain white background.

The best Prime Day deals under $25

The best Prime Day Deals Under $100 on a plain white background.

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

illustration of kaspar hauser

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