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All the AI features coming to Siri on your iPhone

Giraffes are a lot gayer than most people give them credit for

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Giraffes are a lot gayer than most people give them credit for

By Popular Science Team

As ‘zombie’ deer disease spreads, scientists look for answers

By Jim Robbins / Yale Environment 360

The world’s oldest wine contains a cremated Roman aristocrat

orange bucket filled with leaves. a hose rests on the edge of the bucket with water coming out

How to build a mosquito kill bucket

By Debbie Wolfe

These robots learned tennis and boxing after observing people

By Mack DeGeurin

Concept art of lunar rover heat switch system

Moon rovers are evolving to survive the harsh lunar night

Illustration of an astronaut on Mars, using a remote control drone to inspect a nearby cliff.

Traveling to Mars could destroy your kidneys

By Briley Lewis

Cheetah cubs rescued from the illegal wildlife pet trade and brought to Cheetah Conservation Fund’s Rescue and Conservation Center.

On the hunt: Tracking the illegal cheetah trade

By Rene Ebersole / Undark

Ocean trash can now be tracked from space

an illustration of two merging quasars in space. they are round yellow and orange disks, with a black hole in the center. white light is coming out of the center of the black hole.

In a first, astronomers spot merging quasars from the Cosmic Dawn

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of three long-necked and marine reptiles swimming with four paddle shaped limbs in an ancient sea

This giant polar reptile once stalked an ancient super-ocean

By Laura Baisas

Sad child in stairwell using phone

Like cigarettes and alcohol, Surgeon General says social media needs warning labels

cows crowded indoors at a farm

Can we prevent a bird flu pandemic in humans?

By Lauren Leffer

Katie Tyson, 18, first runner up for the Miss Snake Charmer pageant poses for a portrait in a snake pit during the 2021 Rattlesnake Roundup at the Nolan County Coliseum in Sweetwater, Texas on March 13, 2021. - The town of Sweetwater holds the largest rattlesnake roundup in the world, launched in 1958 with the sole purpose of getting rid of rattlesnakes, killing an average of 5,000 pounds of snake each year. (Photo by PAUL RATJE / AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite criticism, the last of the rattlesnake roundups hang on

By Ted Willians / Yale Environment 360

coffee can camera obscura

How to make a coffee can camera—in 1961 and today

By Bill Gourgey

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How to hide apps on your iPhone

Hammerhead shark

A scientific mission to save the sharks

By Angela Posada-Swafford / Knowable Magazine

Pegasus Shooting Star Vodka promo art next to meteorite

The $200 meteorite-infused vodka is refreshingly tasty

a long and lean sei whale swimming in the ocean

Dozens of rare, endangered whales spotted off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard

By Laura Baisas

Artist concept art of Voyager 1

Voyager 1 defies the odds yet again and is back online

a smartphone with a map open on the dashboard of a car

How to share your ETA in Google Maps or Apple Maps

a tardigrade. these microscopic animals have right legs and round bear-like bodies with a small pointy appendage in front.

Tardigrade genes edited with an advanced CRISPR technique

By Laura Baisas

Microsoft Windows 3D tubes screensaver screenshot

Those iconic ’90s Windows screensavers had a purpose

a pink galaxy shaped like a koi fish

Space ‘koi fish’ caught by telescope

By Laura Baisas

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss structure 257 miles above the Pacific Ocean. In the rear, is the SpaceX Dragon crew vehicle that docked to the Harmony module's forward port on March 3 carrying four SpaceX Crew-6 crew members.

International Space Station

‘Check his pulse one more time’: NASA accidentally airs ISS emergency test

swimming in the pool

How to avoid getting sick at the barbecue, in the pool, or on the trail this summer

By Bill Sullivan / The Conversation

AI candidates are running for office

By Mack DeGeurin

Incredible footage shows new squid species tending to enormous eggs

still from the animated film "inside out 2." red anger, purple fear, yellow joy, blue sadness, and green disgust meet with new emotions. Envy is teal, anxiety is orange, and embarrassment is pink.

The science of awkward puberty brain from ‘Inside Out 2’

By Laura Baisas

two dogs cuddle together in a bed in an animal shelter

Shelter dogs appear ‘less stressed’ when paired with a buddy

By Laura Baisas

Bronze Age ruins on the Greek island Aegina, surrounded by sparkling blue waters and mountains

Ancient, surprisingly well-preserved purple dye uncovered in Greece

By Laura Baisas

Haliskia peterseni

New species of flying dinosaur found in Australia

Detail from the reconstructed stone tzompantli, or skull rack, at Chichén Itzá.

Ancient Mayan human sacrifices involved twins

green suv driving on a road in rain day

Electric Vehicles

Rivian vastly improves R1S SUV with version 2.0

a black widow spider on a leaf. the spider is black with a red marking on its abdomen.

New experimental black widow venom antidote uses human antibodies

By Laura Baisas

Microplastic pile close-up

Every human semen sample contained microplastics in new study

an off roading SUV drives through dirt and scrub

Paper maps aren’t dead, but this digital map app is an innovation for off-road explorers

By Kristin Shaw

Astronaut conducting spacewalk outside ISS

International Space Station

NASA astronauts will scrape microorganisms off ISS during upcoming spacewalk

The good news about ‘giant viruses’ found in the Arctic Circle

twin baby elephants stand under their mother

Set of rare elephant twins born in Thailand

By Laura Baisas

Five mysterious ancient artifacts that still puzzle archaeologists

Five mysterious ancient artifacts that still puzzle archaeologists

By Natasha Harlow / The Conversation

a juvenile dolphin lifts its head out of the water

Young dolphins mimic sex as part of play

By Laura Baisas

California Forever concept art of utopian cityscape

California’s billionaire utopia may not be as eco-friendly as advertised

Young woman holding blank screen cell phone, driving car.

Your driving could be monitored by popular apps

two juvenile elephants greet each other near a watering hole. their trunks are interlocked.

African elephants use name-like calls to address each other

By Laura Baisas

To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder—and the brain

By Emily Underwood / Knowable Magazine

text that says 'netflix in 1984' over an image of a disc video player

The $580 million vinyl movie disaster that destroyed an empire

By Popular Science Team

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How to save money by jumping between streaming services

As the planet warms, many of Alaska’s glaciers are retreating. This is destabilizing cliff faces throughout the state’s myriad bays and fjords.

Sailing in Alaska? Watch out for tsunamis

By Christian Elliott / Hakai Magazine

milky way above a barn and tent

10 spectacular images from Milky Way Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Concept art of MouthPad wearable medical device

New device enables tongue-controlled mouse cursor

An orange tree stays next to a damaged buildings in Antakya, Hatay province, on February 5, 2024, after one year the February 2023 earthquake. The disaster, which killed more than 53,500 people in Turkey and nearly 6,000 in Syria, was the region's deadliest in many centuries. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

New data on ‘the Big One’ offers a clearer view of inevitable earthquake catastrophe

By Lauren Leffer

Travis Lerol holds an AR-15 assault rifle along with a rifle's lower receiver made of ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) plastic that was constructed by his 3D printer at his home on Tuesday, February 12, 2012, in Glen Burnie, MD.

YouTube restricts kids’ ability to see some gun content

By Mack DeGeurin

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy machine in hospital laboratory.

New technology could shrink bulky MRI machines

A colorful adult female Joro spider. These arachnids are native to parts of Southeast Asia.

No, ‘flying’ venomous spiders are not coming for you this summer

By Laura Baisas

a pink laptop on a pink, red, white background with coffee cup

Windows and macOS can free up storage space for you—here’s how

There is no science behind eye exercises to improve sight

There is no science behind eye exercises to improve sight

By Benjamin Botsford / The Conversation

Stink bugs were observed freezing in place when this drone hover bed above them.

How drones and AI could help farmers fight a stink bug invasion

By Mack DeGeurin

a school of yellow and white swim near a reef

Fish swimming together fare better in turbulent waters

By Laura Baisas

UP.FIT upgraded Cybertruck cop car concept

Electric Vehicles

Militarized Cybertruck cop cars are coming

a tiger shark swimming in the ocean (left). a small spiky mammal with a pointy nose canned an echidna (right) on land

Unlucky shark vomits up hedgehog-like animal, shocks scientists

By Laura Baisas

Starship fourth liftoff

SpaceX’s fourth Starship launches

Climate change is coming for your oysters

By Devon Fredericksen / Hakai Magazine