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Tesla patented self-cleaning tech for its robotaxis that don’t exist yet

Can grocery-bagging robots make self-checkout less of a pain?

By Mack DeGeurin

Breakdown of Antikythera mechanism

The world’s oldest mechanical computer used a lunar calendar to study the stars

Ritual sticks uncovered in Cloggs Cave date back 10,000 to 12,000 years.

Evidence of 12,000-year-old cultural ritual unearthed in Australia

By Laura Baisas

The newly described Guianan long-nosed armadillo.

A new armadillo species was hiding in plain sight

By Lauren Leffer

NASA's Orion Capsule is drawn into the well deck of the USS Portland during recovery operations after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, on December 11, 2022. - Orion was launched November 16 on the Artemis rocket for a 25-day mission to the Moon. The main goal of this mission was to test Orion's heat shield -- for the day when it is humans and not test mannequins riding inside. (Photo by Mario Tama / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARIO TAMA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

How NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back on Earth

By Marcos Fernandez Tous / The Conversation

green and red grapes

If dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct, we may not have delicious grapes

By Laura Baisas

Fresh Fruit and Vegetables being shot as they submerged under water. So fresh and delicious. This idea can also be use to show washing food before being process further.

How to properly wash fruits and vegetables

By Debbie Wolfe

an suv with its tires turned out on a dirt road

How technology ushered in a new era of all-terrain tires

By Bradley Iger

Oil Pulling Mouthwash, dental oral hygiene rinse aid liquid, trendy alternative detoxifying mouthwash with toothbrush, toothpaste for cleaning teeth on bath background

What does oil pulling do to your teeth? We asked dentists.

a fun moon rises over an italian city

July’s skies sizzle with the Buck Moon and a meteor shower

By Laura Baisas

gofundme homepage

How GoFundMe perpetuates the myth that only some people deserve help

By Nora Kenworthy / MIT Press Reader

man sneezing on a colorful, illustrated background

Why do some people sneeze so loudly?

By RJ Mackenzie

Suspended skyscraper at Three Gorges

7 wild concepts from the 2024 Skyscraper Competition

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)

100 years of aliens: From Mars beavers to little gray men

By Bill Gourgey

Reflective Cybertruck

Electric Vehicles

People are buffing Cybertrucks into dangerous mirrors on wheels

Five of the comb jelly species featured in a new study on how their cells adapt to water pressures. Red coloration as seen in the two specimens at right is common among deep-sea animals.

Comb jellies won’t give into the extreme pressures of deep-sea life

By Laura Baisas

an orange convertible sports car on a rural road

The McLaren Artura Spider experience: Power up, top down

a marine biologist and an actor fist bump while sitting on a dive boat in the ocean

Actor Anthony Mackie and marine biologist Jasmin Graham talk sharks

By Laura Baisas

International Space Station orbiting above Earth

International Space Station

NASA is paying SpaceX to destroy the International Space Station

five statues depicting the high dignitary Nefer and his wife (Abusir, Egypt).

Ancient Egyptian scribes suffered bone damage from working long hours in hunched positions

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of woolly mammoth walking icy plain

The last woolly mammoths were impressively inbred—but that’s not what killed them

the tall and straight pillars of creation as seen with two space telescopes. these celestial bodies are finger-like figures of gas and dust

Ethereal Pillars of Creation come to life in new 3D visualization

By Laura Baisas

visual rabbit illusion

How does the visual rabbit illusion fool us so reliably?

Scientists built an artificial shark uterus

By Claudia Geib / Hakai Magazine

audio book concept with stack of books and headphones

5 places to listen to free audiobooks

NASA astronaut and Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Tracy C. Dyson is pictured in her spacesuit prior to the start of a science and maintenance spacewalk that ended early after her suit experienced a water leak in the service and cooling umbilical unit.

International Space Station

NASA is having one rough summer

the wreckage of an ancient greek shipwreck underwater, with two divers exploring it

Nuts, bones, and wood help date a 2,000-year-old Greek shipwreck

By Laura Baisas

Water tank used for wave modulation system

Sound waves power ping-pong ball through aquatic obstacle course

Green and gold bell frogs in artificial hotspot shelter.

Frog saunas could help the amphibians cope with a deadly fungus

By Lauren Leffer

In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?

In the era of private spaceflight, who gets to be an astronaut?

By Briley Lewis

banana peel, orange peel, eggshells, coffee grounds on a wood countertop

6 kitchen scraps to throw in your garden

By Debbie Wolfe

brain on screens

This is your brain. This is your brain on screens.

By Jill Barshay / The Hechinger Report

An aerial view of the lava flows from the Sundhnúkur volcano on June 3, 2024 on the Reykjanes peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland. The volcano has erupted five times since December 2023.

Iceland’s ‘unparalleled’ volcanic activity could continue for decades

By Laura Baisas

a rose gold boat sits on the water at night

Electric Vehicles

Maserati’s new all-electric boat is capable of 600 horsepower

By Kristin Shaw

a small town street with one and two-story buildings

The small Texas town where you can sip AND soak in mineral water

By Alisha McDarris

Side by side of lab grown skin on 3D and 2D human face models

Lab-grown, self-healing human skin designed to cover robot faces

Golden Anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) in the Red Sea, Egypt

Mass extinction 183 million years ago offers dire warning for modern oceans

a blue lobster in an aquarium tank

Why blue animals are so rare in nature

By Laura Baisas

Baseball fans clear the stands as lightning strikes near the Colorado Rockies’ stadium in 2019.

How to stay safe during lighting season

By Chris Vagasky / The Conversation

a large lizard with yellow spots in the dirt

Giant lizards could keep flesh-eating maggots off Australia’s sheep

By Laura Baisas

A Barred Owl hangs upside down from a thin tree branch, its body horizontal, its face turned and looking at the camera. Above it hangs a squirrel on a branch. Its head is nearly completely severed and is held in the owl’s talons. Its fur is bloodied.

Mating, murder, and parenting: The complex lives of birds on display in 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

DIY Morse code translator gadget

Cool DIY gadget automatically translates Morse code

3D printed Lego moon brick made from meteorite dust against space background

Future lunar bases could be built with LEGO moon bricks

Yes, humans are still evolving

By Lauren Leffer

person holding pets

The fuzzy science on whether your pet is actually good for you

By Michael Schulson/Undark

a lake and hills on a tv

How to customize screensavers on your TV

'fraud' written over man in brain device

Popular Science Videos

In the 1960s, swindlers pushed fake radioactive medicine

By Popular Science Team

map from 1761 showing the regions of that era in the northern hemisphere

Love history? Explore this interactive collection of old maps.

a red sports car splashy through mud next to green hills

Getting muddy in the 2025 Aston Martin DBX707

neurotargetting

What is neurotargeting? How a data-fueled technique threatens democracy

By Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert / MIT Press Reader

Orange juice with spoon of collagen

Does drinking collagen actually do anything? We asked experts.

Futuristic wooden children's car with creator standing next to it.

Dad builds a fantastical and functional wooden sci-fi car for kids

an illustration of a gold griffin with the body of a lion and the head of a bird of prey

We’re (probably) wrong about origin of griffins

By Laura Baisas

Concept art of asteroid entering planet's atmosphere

What would we do if an asteroid slammed Earth on July 12, 2038?

eight catapult stones on grass

Archeologists uncover 800-year-old stone catapult shots used in English Civil War

By Laura Baisas

running in the summer

How runners and cyclists can stay safe in extreme heat

By Susan Yeargin / The Conversation

Indianapolis - Circa June 2017: Tesla Motors Local Car Dealership. Tesla designs and manufactures the Model S electric sedan III

Electric Vehicles

Dead Teslas keep locking owners out of (and inside) their cars

a grocery store shelf with electronic price tags

Digital price tags can change the cost of groceries 6 times per minute

By Mack DeGeurin

Wave erosion may have shaped Titan’s coastlines

Glassy gel stretching

‘Glassy gels’ are a new class of strong, stretchy, sticky materials

The ancient oak circle which emerged from the shifting sands at Holme next the Sea in Norfolk. The ring of oak tree trunks with a large upturned tree at its centre is believed to be 4,000 years old & is said to be of great archaeological importance.

What is ‘Seahenge’? Bronze Age worshipers may have used the structure to try to extend the summer

By Laura Baisas

Fraudulent call centers are well known for targeting older adults.

Older Americans are at more risk of fraud than ever

By Laurie Archbald-Pannone / The Conversation

an suv driving on a dirt path

The engineer who went off-roading to help build Honda’s most rugged vehicle

By Kristin Shaw