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vacuum on blue carpet

How often should you vacuum? It depends.

By Debbie Wolfe

First metal 3D printer on space station dribbles molten steel

First metal 3D printer on space station dribbles molten steel

By Harriet Weber

Drinking alcohol on airplanes is bad for your body

Drinking alcohol on airplanes is bad for your body

Concept art of superstructure with gravity battery inside

Colossal skyscrapers could harness height for gravity batteries

Image of June 3, 2024, solar flare

Watch a wild ‘failed eruption’ solar flare

A huge thermokarst crater showing the damage to the permafrost and our climate, Batagay, Russia.

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing

By Lauren Leffer

an american flamingo. the bird has pink and white plumage with a black beak

A ‘pink wave’ of flamingoes settles into the Sunshine State

By Laura Baisas

a snake spits venom out of its mouth

Snake venom’s deadly secrets decoded with fake blood vessels

By Laura Baisas

Common cuttlefish

Cuttlefish tentacles and origami inspired a new robotic claw

two men holding trophies over a background of an assembly line

The father-son duo changing the world of automotive engineering at Ford

By Kristin Shaw

a close up of a cicada with blue eyes

A ‘one-in-a-million’ blue-eyed cicada spotted by 4-year-old child

By Laura Baisas

Visualisation of the central grave/main burial of the Grafenbühl mound

DNA suggests ancient Celtic royalty was matrilineal

An artistic life reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni, the last of the dromornithids, at the water’s edge

Giant 500-pound geese once honked around the Australian outback

By Laura Baisas

There is new help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia

By Judith Graham / KFF Health News

a sandwich cut into a y shape

Is the Y cut the best way to slice a sandwich?

'nope' on space background

Popular Science Videos

In 1967, Walter Cronkite tried to predict the year 2000. Here’s what he got right (and very wrong).

By Popular Science Team

While scientists have seen colossal squid before—like this specimen examined by New Zealander researchers in 2014—their interactions have always been with animals that were either pulled from the depths, washed up on shore, or otherwise removed from their natural habitat.

Visiting the kraken at home

By Evert Lindquist / Hakai Magazine

11 US National Parks where you can find fossils

11 US National Parks where you can find fossils

By Alisha McDarris

How do animals get their spots and stripes? A Turing mechanism holds clues to patterns

How do animals get their spots and stripes? A Turing mechanism holds clues to patterns

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Cute jack russell dog terrier puppy sleeping on yellow knitted blanket. Funny small sleepy white and brown doggy. Concept of cozy home, comfort, warmth, autumn, winter.

Do dogs dream? The answer might make you appreciate your pup even more.

By Keith Wagstaff

What would you do with a robotic third thumb?

What would you do with a robotic third thumb?

By Mack DeGeurin

two women with one in the background highlighted for removal with cursor

How Adobe Lightroom’s new AI tools can transform your photos

JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed

Space Telescope

JWST discovers earliest galaxy ever observed

steam rising over blue water in a pool built by ancient romans

What Britain’s famed Roman Baths could teach us about microbes

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of atomic Fresnel lens

Particle Physics

This lens is just three atoms thick and works like a quantum lighthouse

18 February 2022, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck: The display of an artificial nose shows the smell of coffee in a laboratory of the Competence Center Communication, Systems and Applications (CoSA) at Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. The small computer with a pig's nose has four sensors and can easily distinguish between coffee, whiskey and room air. In the future, the artificial intelligence (AI) could also warn if, for example, the concentration of hazardous substances is too high at an industrial workplace. (to dpa "How whiskey makes artificial intelligence comprehensible") Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa (Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

AI is cracking a hard problem–giving computers a sense of smell

By Ambuj Tewari / The Conversation

the gmail icon on an iphone in someone's hand

7 essential tips for using Gmail on your phone

a full moon rises with blurred red flowers

June skygazing: Nevermind the viral ‘planet parade,’ check out the Strawberry/Solstice moon

By Laura Baisas

Close-up of three cows

Cow poop might make cleaner hydrogen gas a reality

a black and white photograph of swimmer gertrude ederle. she is standing on a beach in a one piece swimsuit holding an oar.

Fitness & Exercise

Gertrude Ederle and the grueling science of marathon swimming

By Laura Baisas

AI will require even more energy than we thought

AI will require even more energy than we thought

By Mack DeGeurin

Amazon workers testing Prime Air drones outside

Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones get a major FAA clearance

fossilized leg bones in reddish-brown sediment

New horse-sized dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe

By Laura Baisas

This photo taken on May 11, 2024 shows the northern lights over a suburb in London, Britain. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Why low-light events like the northern lights often look better through your phone camera

By Douglas Goodwin / The Conversation

white fluffy clouds on blue sky

NASA needs your help identifying clouds

By Alisha McDarris

two electric bikes on a rural road

Electric Vehicles

I really wanted to love the LiveWire S2 Del Mar

Metamaterial film on glass

New material looks like frosted glass but lets in more light than a window

Phone screens of the future might be squishy

Phone screens of the future might be squishy

By Mack DeGeurin

a brown snail sits on a green lettuce leaf

Slimy slugs and snails surprisingly thriving in LA

By Laura Baisas

Underwater image of Titanic wreckage

Billionaire plans to ride $20 million submersible to the Titanic

Panels A, B, and C each show stereographic image pairs of the asteroid Dinkinesh taken by the L’LORRI Instrument aboard NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft. The images were taken in the minutes around closest approach on November 1, 2023. The yellow and rose dots indicate the trough and ridge features, respectively. These images have been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Panel D shows a side view of Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam taken a few minutes after closest approach.

The odd moon orbiting a ‘Dinky’ asteroid is actually two moons fused together

By Laura Baisas

Amsterdam, Netherlands - 10 April, 2021: a chair in front of a book shelf with many books on it and a lamp sitting next to the chair

How to protect your books long term

By Debbie Wolfe

a human skull on a dark background with E270 printed on it

4,000 year-old Egyptian skulls show attempts at brain surgery to treat cancer

By Laura Baisas

coral polyps before spawning

Scientists are studying the mysterious sex lives of coral

By Laura Baisas

a car on cement

Why Bentley is dropping its iconic W12 engine for a V8 hybrid

By Kristin Shaw

Robot solving Rubik's cube

In blink of an eye, robot sets new Rubik’s cube Guinness World Record

a woman listens to music with headphones on over hear ear

How our brains differentiate music and speech

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of EarthCARE satellite scanning clouds above Earth

The ‘White Dragon’ satellite will keep watch over our clouds

The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages

The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages

By Bill Gourgey

Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas panhandle

Clues from bird flu’s ground zero on dairy farms in the Texas panhandle

By Amy Maxmen / KFF Health News

red lava rushes into the Pacific Ocean, with smoke and steam rising

Buildup of gas caused Kīlauea to erupt like a stomp-rocket

By Laura Baisas

oats, baking soda, apple cider vinegar, honey, and aloe vera on a kitchen counter top

11 home remedies for mosquito bites to battle the itch

By Debbie Wolfe

$A spherical collection of stars which fills the whole view. The cluster is dominated by a concentrated group of bright white stars at the center, with several large yellow stars scattered throughout the image. Many of the stars have visible diffraction spikes. The background is black$

Space Telescope

The 8 most extraordinary JWST images of 2024, so far

By Popular Science Team

Cobra 3d printed golf club against a blurry gray background

Cobra changes the game with first commercially available 3D-printed irons

By Stan Horaczek

iphones on purple

How to make text bigger—and 7 other iPhone tricks you might not know

Orlando, FL/USA-7/19/20: A bin of Elmers Glue in the school supply aisle at a Walmart in Orlando, Florida.

Google’s AI Overview tells you to eat glue. (Don’t.)

a green stick insect blending into a green plant

Chance or pattern? Stick insects show repeatable evolution in action

By Laura Baisas

noise cancelling headphones new study

AI-powered headphones can tune into a single voice in a crowd

By Mack DeGeurin

B-21 Raider stealth bomber in flight

See the B-21 nuclear stealth bomber’s first official flight photos

Fit for a dog? The latest science on CBD for pets

By Ula Chrobak / Knowable Magazine

Private jet on tarmac at sunset

Tracking private jets just got much harder

Carrion crow (Corvus corone) perched on wooden fence post and calling. (Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study

By Lauren Leffer

an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star

Newly discovered exoplanet may be habitable (or a Venus-like hellscape)

By Laura Baisas

Car driving fast in the night city

Speeding cars could start beeping to nag their drivers into slowing down

By Mack DeGeurin