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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

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton

Stegosaurus ‘Apex’ sold for nearly $45 million to a billionaire

Particles rush through a long tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider.

Particle Physics

How the Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year

By Riccardo Maria Bianchi / The Conversation

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii

Two Pompeii skeletons reveal a new story of death at mega disaster

By Laura Baisas

What does a pug skull look like? University digitizes skulls of 152 dog breeds.

By Popular Science Team

Nubian spitting cobra (

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

a 3D rendering of three early humans butchering a giant armadillo

Early humans butchered enormous armadillos

By Laura Baisas

Tiny drones have can only carry very small computer processors with little computation and memory. This makes it very challenging for them to navigate by themselves, as current state-of-the-art approaches to autonomous navigation are computation- and memory intensive.

Bug brains could help drone swarms find their way home

By Mack DeGeurin

A team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists have discovered a planet that has the most oblong orbit ever found among transiting planets. The exoplanet’s extreme circuit — which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle — follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. The planet, , named TIC 241249530, is also orbiting its star backwards, lending insight into the mystery of how close-in massive gas planets, known as hot Jupiters, form, stabilize and evolve over time.

Newly discovered exoplanet’s orbit is like a ‘cucumber’

Rumpl blankets arranged in a row

Amazon Prime Day editor’s pick: Rumpl’s super-fancy camping blankets get a rare deep discount

By Stan Horaczek

a large SUV parked in front of a colonial-style building. palm trees in the background

2024 GMC Acadia’s new engine is smaller, but more powerful

By Kristin Shaw

a long, dark brown millipede crawling on brown and green leaves

Expedition finds a 10-inch long millipede lost to science for 126 years

By Laura Baisas

The English women's athletics team, the appearance of the first UK female athletes at international Olympics, Sweden, Stockholm 1912.

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The Olympics has been obsessed with sex for centuries

By Popular Science Team

How animals use physics

By Tom Siegfried / Knowable Magazine

Celestron telescopes on a plain background on-sale for Prime Day

Grab a great deal on a Celestron telescope during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Ultimate Ears’ new Wonderboom is one of the best portable party speakers on sale for Prime Day

Ultimate Ears’ new Wonderboom is one of the best portable party speakers on sale for Prime Day

These are the best headphones we’re buying during Amazon Prime Day 2024

These are the best headphones we’re buying during Amazon Prime Day 2024

Dragonfly resting on flower

Dragonflies reveal how toxic mercury moves in nature

Solo Stove Bonfire 2.0 in action

Solo Stove’s hottest fire pits and accessories are up to $102 off for Prime Day

stick figure camera

This camera turns people into stick figures to preserve privacy

By Mack DeGeurin

EF EcoFlow River 2 portable power stations arranged in a pattern

Get an EcoFlow portable power station with a solar charging panel for just $179 before they sell out on Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

A blue Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder filled with seed is mounted to a green post.

The Bird Buddy is the best bird feeder camera at its best price ever for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

Screenshot from music video for Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"

NASA beamed Missy Elliott’s ‘The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)’ to her favorite planet

several snakes entwined together on a rock

Ssssso many snakes: Watch a ‘mega-den’ of rattlesnakes in real time

By Laura Baisas

The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite on a plain white background.

The Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader, and it’s on sale during Amazon Prime Day

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries

By Bill Gourgey

KitchenAid Artisan Series 5 Quart Tilt Head Stand Mixer in a tiled configuration.

Save more than $100 on KitchenAid’s Artisan Series Stand Mixer during Amazon Prime Day

DeWalt drill driver kits on a plain background

This $129 DeWalt drill and driver kit is the best Prime Day tool deal we’ve seen so far

By Stan Horaczek

An Acer Predator Cestus 315 Gaming Mouse in a pattern on a plain background.

80+ of the best Prime Day sales under $50, according to our editors

A eufy pet camera in a pattern on a plain background.

The 50+ best Prime Day pet sales, chosen by our editors

Peloton bikes in a pattern on a plain background.

The best 30+ Prime Day fitness sales from our editors

SAMSUNG ViewFinity S80A Series 27-Inch 4K UHD Monitor on a plain white background.

The best Prime Day computer monitor deals

HP EliteBook 655 G10 in a tiled configuration.

The best Prime Day laptop deals

Hisense 65U6HF in a tiled configuration.

The best Prime Day TV deals from Hisense, TCL, Sony, and more

What do storm chasers really do?

By Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski / The Conversation

DJI Mini 4K drones on a plain background

This $239 DJI Mini 4K drone will definitely sell out during Amazon Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, Expedition 36 flight engineer, is pictured near food packages floating freely in the Unity node of the International Space Station.

Why food tastes more bland in space