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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

Hummingbirds draw the eye with their bright colors and busy, hovering flight. Biologists are drawn to understand the suite of adaptations they have evolved to survive extreme lifestyles.

Hummingbirds thrive on an extreme lifestyle. Here’s how.

By Bob Holmes / Knowable Magazine

variety of phones

6 iOS 18 settings you might want to change ASAP

Dataset relating to "Corpus: Omens and Portents"

Do AI-generated images have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world?

By Anthony Downey / MIT Press Reader

a woman with blonde hair that floats near a window overlooking earth from above

Polaris Dawn crew shares stunning new images from historic space mission

By Popular Science Team

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas raises an American flag as NASA astronaut Kate Rubins looks on during their first simulated moonwalk in a week-long field test consisting of four simulated moonwalks and six advanced technology runs in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 13, 202

At Earth’s most extreme locales, astronauts find ideal places to prep for space

By Briley Lewis

Popular Science, December 1943

In 1928, the discovery of ‘mold juice’ would go on to save 500 million lives

By Bill Gourgey

Monarch butterfly feeding on purple aster flower in summer floral background.

How to plant a garden butterflies will love

By Debbie Wolfe

Two Fingered Sloth close-up

Sloths may be in danger by the end of the century

poppy seed bagel

Ask Us Anything

What causes positive drug tests? It’s not just drugs… or poppy seeds.

By Lauren Leffer

This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845. For Franklin’s last journey she had been fitted with a steam engine and a screw propeller and was accompanied by HMS ‘Terror’. In 1848 both vessels were abandoned in the ice.

Crew of ill-fated Franklin Expedition cannibalized their commander, archeologists prove

a condor, a large bird with black plumage, stands near a creek

4 endangered California condors will be released into the wild

By Laura Baisas

Artist concept: The LSST will carry out a deep, ten-year imaging survey in six broad optical bands over the main survey area of 18,000 square degrees.

Space Telescope

How AI’s data-crunching-power can help demystify the cosmos

By Briley Lewis

A cell undergoing apoptosis is seen in the center of the image surrounded by other normal cells.Shaded Lighter.

Your cells are dying. All the time.

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Satellite image of Hurricane Helene

What Hurricane Helene looks like from space

Concept art of USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle on neighborhood street

USPS explains chunky bumpers on new duck-shaped trucks

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 SCOTT FRIER Ocean Shores United States Title: Nagging is a Universal Concept Description: I liked this image as It reminds me of the old TV commercial for Maxell audio cassette tapes called: "Blown Away Guy". On safari in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania we hung around a Kopji of rocks because there were lion cubs being nursed when this action happened. I was just lucky enough to catch it. I have this image printed and hung on a wall of my home, everybody who sees it laughs at it. One of those people mentioned that I should entered it in this contest so here it is. Animal: Lion & Lioness Location of shot: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

24 silly wildlife photos that’ll make you laugh

By Popular Science Team

electric scooter

E-bike and scooter injuries are up 293%

By Mack DeGeurin

Group of Snow Geese in elegant flight against blue sky at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge in New Mexico in winter.

Why do birds migrate? Scientists have a few major theories.

By Lauren Leffer

a sea robin fish with wide pectoral fins and six crab-like legs

This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues

By Laura Baisas

Hybrid potatoes created by the biotechnology company Solynta, grown and recently harvested in Kenya.

How crop science is transforming the humble potato

By Martin Enserink / Undark

an iphone screen open on a mac

How to mirror your iPhone on your Mac

a platypus floating in a creek on the Eungella National Park , Queensland, Australia

Platypus-like robot skin inspired by scientist’s daughter

Nissan cars will yell at you for hogging the fast lane

By Mack DeGeurin

Man riding on 3D printed Lego minibike

Engineer builds rideable LEGO motorbike using oversized 3D-printed bricks

a CT scan of two jaw fossils from early mammals

A 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint shifts evolutionary timeline

By Laura Baisas

A mummy from an Early Bronze Age cemetery of Xiaohe (1980–1450 BC) in Xinjiang, China and very old cheese.

World’s oldest cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China

By Lauren Leffer

marbled crayfish

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

These self-cloning crayfish ladies could take over the world

By Popular Science Team

A variety of behaviors can foster muscle tension and lead to knots.

Ask Us Anything

What is a muscle knot actually? A pain in the neck, but not a knot.

By Harriet Weber

glass bowl filled with brown seaweed

Bye, kale: Marine scientists want you to eat more seaweed

By Alisha McDarris

Video screenshot of piece of OceanGate Titan wreckage

The OceanGate Titan implosion left a 30,000-square-meter debris field

Study suggests that ambient dopamine levels in the brain do not influence the strength of the placebo effect.

Scientists reexamine dopamine’s role in the placebo effect

a spook-fish with a narrow snout and large pectoral fins

Boo! New species of ghost shark uncovered in New Zealand

By Laura Baisas

Spinach rows in farm field

Your recycled pee may be better for crops than synthetic fertilizer

Mount Thielsen with a base of rocks and trees around its side

Extinct volcanoes could hold rare earth elements

By Laura Baisas

Scientists observed two bowhead whales synchronizing dive schedules whenever they were within earshot of each other.

Whales may be communicating across vast distances

By Joanna Thompson / Hakai Magazine

This artist concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. The galactic center hosts a supermassive black hole in the region known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, with a mass of about four million times that of our sun.

Ask Us Anything

Can the black hole in the center of our galaxy expand to our solar system?

By Alex Hazlett

Z Machine operating at Sandia National Laboratories

Could nukes deflect an asteroid? ‘X-ray scissors’ offer scientists clues.

three species of crane stand in tall grass. the first has grey, black and white plumage and is the tallest. the second has mostly white plumage. the last one is small with gray plumage.

Cranes can migrate 4,000 miles, but that’s not the hard part

By Laura Baisas

Video still of Deep Blue Aerospace's Nebula-1 rocket attempting to reland

Private Space Flight

Drone captures Chinese reusable test rocket’s fiery end

Caption: An octopus cyanea hunting with a blacktip grouper on one side and a gold-saddle goatfish (‘blue goatfish’) on the other.

Octopus and fish join forces to hunt together

By Lauren Leffer

The best portable jump starters arranged in a pattern

The best portable jump starters, tested and reviewed

2024 EV9 dashboard screen and infotainment system

Electric Vehicles

The iPhone-ification of cars unlocks a new world of options

By Kristin Shaw

training tech for cops

The dangerous fantasy of cybernetic cops

By Ben Egliston & Marcus Carter / MIT Press Reader

Using the microwave oven to heat food. Woman's hand puts plastic container with broccoli and buckwheat in the microwave

Ask Us Anything

Seriously, stop microwaving your food in plastic

By Lauren Leffer

A Joshua tree on Eureka Peak in Joshua Tree National Park.

With hotter, drier weather, California’s Joshua Trees are in trouble

By Jim Robbins / Yale Environment 360

an iPad, desktop, and laptop with sequoia open

7 cool macOS 15 Sequoia tricks that you couldn’t do before

Cross section of nautilus shell

Mathematicians define a new shape—and you’ve probably seen it

child with fever

Why do we have fevers? It’s more complicated than ‘heat kills bugs.’

By Lauren Leffer