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pile of denim jeans closeup

How to clean your denim without ruining it

By Debbie Wolfe

Asiatyrannus xui skull close up

‘Deep-snouted’ tyrannosaur fossils uncovered at construction site

a hotel in the ground

Subterranean retreats: How underground hotels harness Earth’s natural insulation

By Alisha McDarris

Nine-banded Armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus, in water, Santa Clara Ranch, southern Texas, United States.

‘Chaos is the norm now:’ The blurry line between invasive and range-expanding species

By Lauren Leffer

aerial drone view of an industrial installation that produces per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS

LED lights may be key to breaking down forever chemicals

a scientists with a gloved hand prepares a blood sample in a test tube

FDA approves new blood test to detect colon cancer

By Laura Baisas

retro TV against plain blue wall in empty room

How long do TVs last? When and why you should replace your set.

By Nicholas Ware

pile of coffee beans and a steaming cup of coffee

The chemistry behind decaf coffee

By Michael W. Crowder / The Conversation

chewing gum pieces on red background

Fitness & Exercise

Can chewing gum reshape your jawline? We asked experts.

pile of clothes

How to pick the best fabrics for sweaty season

By Debbie Wolfe

ham radio hobbyist

The rich history of ham radio culture

By Kristen Haring / MIT Press Reader

a lawnmower cuts grass

You’re probably mowing your lawn wrong

By Debbie Wolfe

Samsung OLED TV with Blade Runner on the screen in a room.

What is TV resolution? From 1080p to 8K and beyond.

By Nicholas Ware

California Forever concept art of utopian cityscape

California’s billionaire utopia faces a major setback

Soap bubble machine on top of car blowing a large bubble

Watch 50-foot long soap bubbles fly with the ‘Endless Bubble Machine’

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