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hand squeezing balloon

Thanks to Reddit, a new diagnosis is bubbling up across the United States

By Rae Ellen Bichell / KFF Health News

toilet paper shaped like sad face

Why you should consider a bidet

By Debbie Wolfe

Lego Full Scale McLaren P1 driving

LEGO built a full-scale, drivable McLaren P1 model

A Syntretus perlmani wasp larva bursts from a fruit fly’s abdomen.

Gnarly wasp gruesomely rips apart fruit flies from the inside out with its larvae

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of AST Spacemobile Bluewalker 3 above Earth

Private Space Flight

Five new massive satellites outshine most evening stars

a tv on a dresser

How to use the Matter smart home standard: The best way to get all your devices talking to one another

Woman working at desk with face mask on while sick

The research supports you taking a sick day

This artist concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our Sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies.

Searching for the secrets behind the Little Red Dots

By Fabio Pacucci / The Conversation

Conspiracy theories hat

How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind

By Mack DeGeurin

a reservoir in colombia with very low water levels due to drought

Mega El Niños helped kill 90 percent of life on Earth

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of the cases where one impulse Δv = 10−1 m s−1 from a small asteroid impact has been applied to Apophis.

Astrophysicist predicts (slightly) higher chance for major asteroid impact in 2029

Contrail clouds from passing jet planes streak the sky over the Utah desert.

Ask Us Anything

Why airplanes leave white streaks in the sky

By Lauren Leffer

tv remote pointed at tv

With TV drug ads, what you see is not necessarily what you get

By Elisabeth Rosenthal/KFF Health News

person in space suit above earth

Polaris Dawn astronauts complete historic first commercial spacewalk

an illustration of a long gray coelacanth swimming in its native habitat

The ‘living fossil’ that thrived during a mass extinction

By Laura Baisas

neanderthal teeth in a cave

Neanderthals’ social isolation may have sped up their extinction

By Laura Baisas

A bullet train passes below Mt. Fuji in Japan.

Japan will test self-driving bullet trains in 2028

NASA astronaut Ed White free floating in space during a spacewalk in 1965.

How does Polaris Dawn fit into the history of spacewalks?

By Briley Lewis

Lasius emarginatus

This immigrant ant is taking New York City by storm

By Popular Science Team

microbes in the sky

The sky is full of germs

By Lauren Leffer

Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes

Hardt Hyperloop used magnetic levitation to lift a pod up and propel it through a test track at 18 miles per hour.

Hyperloop’s not dead, apparently

By Mack DeGeurin

an illustration of a small bird with light brown, black, and white plummage. it has a long beak with sharp teeth

‘Weird’ prehistoric bird had a weaponized beak with teeth

By Laura Baisas

Polaris Dawn Crew Dragon capsule detaching from SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Polaris Dawn is on its way to attempt first-ever commercial spacewalk

child playing with fidget spinner

Ask Us Anything

Does fidgeting really help you focus?

By Lauren Leffer

Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells—as shown here—once fired from German battleships.

The big Baltic bomb cleanup

By Paul Hockenos / Hakai Magazine

a whale surfaces next to a large fishing trawler

Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.

By Laura Baisas

People taking photos of the new iPhone 16 Pro with their iPhones

Hands on: Apple introduces new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches

Mini mum is one of the smallest frogs in the world, described by Mark D. Scherz and his colleagues in 2019. These tiny frogs from southeastern Madagascar live in amongst the leaf litter and feed on tiny mites. They are amongst the target species of the GEMINI project, because their closest relatives are ten times larger.

Researchers want to unlock genetics of the world’s tiniest animals

Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs

By Mack DeGeurin

Electrostatic hydraulic robot leg

Oil-filled ‘muscles’ give this robot leg a spring in its step

an x-ray image of an eel escaping from a fish's stomach

Watch an eel escape a fish’s stomach through its gills

By Laura Baisas

Starship Titanic promo art displaying the ship's in-game bots

The improbable voyage of Starship Titanic, the 1998 Douglas Adams video game filled with ‘unhinged’ chatbots

How to create custom AI chatbots in Google Gemini

The Boeing Starliner.

The Boeing Starliner has returned to Earth without its crew. Now what?

By Michael E. Fossum / The Conversation

text says "VR in 1994" with photo of backpack device

Interactor: The ’90s VR backpack gamers hated

By Popular Science Team

Early warning systems save lives during disasters.

How to sign up for local emergency alerts before natural disasters strike

By Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett / The Markup

jars filled with different types of fruits and vegetables in liquid

How to start pickling food

By Debbie Wolfe

two images: an astronaut on a spacewalk and a scuba diver

Astronauts and aquanauts: What does the sea have to do with space?

By Alisha McDarris

What’s that smell—and how’d you know?

By Daniela Hirschfeld / Knowable Magazine

the google tasks interface on a cell phone

Google Tasks is the best Google tool you’re not using

an illustration of a striped tasmanian tiger with sharp teeth eating the body of a wombat-like creature

New bone-crushing Tasmanian tiger species dug up by paleontologists

By Laura Baisas

A black and white image shows a silvery sheet of material toward the bottom

NASA releases first photo of 860-square-foot solar sail in orbit

Turns out, micro and nano plastics degrade differently.

Scientists finally get a 3D view of degrading microplastics

By Mack DeGeurin

a sedan sitting in front of concrete structures

Electric Vehicles

Lucid reinvents the electric motor by thinking small. Really small.

By Kristin Shaw

Human ear closeup

Ask Us Anything

Why do we have earlobes? They make no evolutionary sense.

By Lauren Leffer

How do you keep pilots and passengers of sea planes safe?

By Barbara Peterson / Hakai Magazine

a pterosaur speices flaps its wings to fly, while another uses them to soar

‘Remarkable’ fossils offer clues to perplexing pterosaur question

By Laura Baisas

Man with AI song catalog ‘defrauds’ streaming services of $10 million

This squishy robot uses electrical signals processed from King Oyster mushroom mycelia to scoot back and forth.

This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom

By Mack DeGeurin

A container of Yellow #5 dye.

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

By Lauren Leffer

Meteorite impacts and volcanic eruption producing glass beads on the Moon.

Volcanoes may have existed on the moon far more recently than we thought

A powerful laser shines into a jet of gas, creating a bright plasma and generating ultraviolet light. The light leaves a visible white line as it interacts with leftover gas in the vacuum chamber. This process helps scientists precisely measure the energy needed to excite the thorium-229 nucleus, which is the core of a future nuclear clock.

Move over, atomic clocks: Nuclear clocks are on the way

Sunset behind the IceCube Lab

Astronomers really like the South Pole, but why?

By Briley Lewis

several loaves of golden rustic looking bread on a table

How farming helped humans evolve to get more energy from carbs

By Laura Baisas

horses in a field

Where and when were horses domesticated?

By William Taylor / The Conversation

Steaming pipes at Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant. This image is shot using a drone.

‘The world is not prepared:’ How AI energy thirst might tap into geothermal power

By Mack DeGeurin

Illustration of Sasayamagnomus saegusai

Tiny triceratops ancestor named after gnomes

a northern elephant seal with wide eyes looks into a camera next to an underwater acoustic monitoring device

Northern elephant seals know a ‘dinner bell’ when they hear one

By Laura Baisas

a woman scratches several red mosquito bites on her shoulder

‘Ancient, funny’ cells are to blame for itchy mosquito bites

By Laura Baisas

Peach blossom jellyfish

Invasive jellyfish ‘clones’ are spreading into Canada

The Accelerationists’ app: How Telegram became the ‘center of gravity’ for a new breed of domestic terrorists

By James Bandler/ProPublica, A.C. Thompson/ProPublica and FRONTLINE, Karina Meier/FRONTLINE

Starliner docked with ISS with Earth in background

International Space Station

NASA can explain Starliner’s spooky, pulsing sounds

Titanic bow wreckage underwater

The famous railing from ‘Titanic’ has broken off from Titanic