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Are you a workaholic? Here’s how to spot the signs
Health

Are you a workaholic? Here’s how to spot the signs

By Chris Woolston / Knowable Magazine

Historical artistic interpretation of an ouroboros. It is a dragon eating its own tail.
Technology

AI trained on AI churns out gibberish garbage

By Mack DeGeurin

Elderly woman listening to music happily
Science

Our memory of music persists in old age

By Mack DeGeurin

a purple race track, with whit lane lines
Environment

Paris Olympics’ purple track is made with crushed mussel and clam shells

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of an long cylindrical arthropod. it has big blue eyes, a body that looks like a taco shell, several short red legs, and a tail
Animals

This taco-shaped critter is a big (evolutionary) deal

By Laura Baisas

GLP1 mockup
Health

Why millions are trying FDA-authorized alternatives to Big Pharma’s weight loss drugs

By Arthur Allen/KFF Health News

Entertainment app on iphone 14 pro in smartphone screen close up view
DIY

How to request all the data Netflix, Spotify, and other apps have on you

By David Nield

flying drone
Technology

Ready or not, here come the police drones

By Mack DeGeurin

four red hens in a line. two are looking straight ahead, one is looking right, and the other is looking left. they have an expression that reads as suprise
Agriculture

Not to ruffle feathers, but chickens blush

By Laura Baisas

In the foreground to the left is a sphere half illuminated on the right side, almost filling the image vertically. The surface consists of several parallel, pale-coloured bands aligned horizontally. To the top right is a much smaller orange, circular light source, illuminating the large sphere in the foreground. The background is black with numerous tiny white dots.
Science

JWST detects a new exoplanet six times larger than Jupiter

By Tom Hawking

the forest
Environment

Tree bark demonstrates an unexpected climate superpower

By Lauren Leffer

an illustration of two mouse-like animals in a forest, with a stegosaurus walking by and a mosquito flying over them
Animals

Baby teeth reveal surprisingly long lifespans of small Jurassic mammals

By Laura Baisas

Mercury colorful
Science

What ‘Mercury in retrograde’ actually means

By Briley Lewis

a digital illustration of AI
Technology

Everyone is judging AI by these tests, but experts say they’re close to meaningless

By Jon Keegan / The Markup

various bird bones out on a table
Archaeology

Neanderthals ate birds. But how?

By Laura Baisas

a peacock butterfly on a pink plant. its wings are primarily red, with black, yellow, and blue circles
Animals

Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

By Laura Baisas

Ram 1500 Revolution Battery-electric Vehicle (BEV) Concept front three-quarters
Technology

Ram’s vision for a three-row pickup truck could be closer to reality than you think

By Kristin Shaw

Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching ocean in an attack.
Environment

Sharks are testing positive for cocaine

By Andrew Paul

25 images of space
Science

NASA drops 25 dazzling images to celebrate Chandra X-ray space telescope

By Popular Science Team

Close up of pills in blister packs
Deep Space

How will astronauts handle expired drugs on Mars?

By Andrew Paul

sky blue car parked in front of dirt and grass hill
Technology

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
Technology

Rescue from above: How drones may narrow emergency response times

By Michelle Andrews / KFF Health News

VERO four legged robot vacuuming cigarette butts
Technology

This plodding robot sucks up cigarette butts

By Andrew Paul

a circle and pi = 3.14 written on a chalkboard
Science

Math teacher argues Pi Day should be July 22

By Ben Orlin

Plane cabin lighting simulating sunset
Aviation

Simulated sunrises and sunsets in planes may reduce jet lag

By Andrew Paul

five chimpanzeess sitting in tall, green grass
Animals

Chimp conversations can take on human-like chaos

By Laura Baisas

Polymetallic nodules scattered across bottom of the ocean floor
Biology

‘Dark oxygen’ on ocean floor may rewrite Earth’s origins of life

By Andrew Paul

a brown dog looks up with a longing expression
Animals

Your dog can probably smell your stress

By Laura Baisas

view from airplane
Environment

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).
Environment

How the Blob was born

By Michael Allen / Hakai Magazine

a person in a gas mask with 'death sand' on the screen
Technology

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.
Science

It’s not just us: Other animals change their social habits in old age

By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine

a crocodile, kangaroos, and shark
Environment

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
DIY

Why you should buy physical copies of your favorite books

By Justin Pot

An aerial view of a cargo ship waiting at the Khawr Abd Allah canal leading up to Al-Faw port in southern Iraq in June.
Environment

How cleaning up shipping cut pollution—and warmed the planet

By Syris Valentine / Grist

a bear lays flat on its belly on a rocky beach with its legs projected backwards
Environment

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.
Science

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
DIY

This iPhone feature will filter out spam and texts from people you don’t know

By Justin Pot

a flat map of the planet jupiter, showing reddish-orange lines and the planet's great red spot
Deep Space

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.
Environment

No sex? No problem. These tiny, asexual animals steal genes to make their own medicine 

By Lauren Leffer

Solar farm panels in meadow
Environment

There’s a right and a wrong way to build a solar farm

By Andrew Paul

a bee kicks away an ant
Animals

Ant gets bee-slapped, and other strange bug moments

By Laura Baisas

Outages have hit at least eight states this year.
Technology

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.
Technology

Swimming, soccer, and surveillance: Paris preps for an AI-monitored Olympics

By Mack DeGeurin

NASA VIPER Rover
Science

NASA’s VIPER rover won’t be going to the moon after all

By Tom Hawking

Martian landscape simulation room in CHAPEA Mars Dune Alpha
Science

What it was like to spend a year in NASA’s Mars base simulation

By Andrew Paul

a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.
Animals

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton
Science

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

By Andrew Paul

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

How the Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year

By Riccardo Maria Bianchi / The Conversation

plaster cast of human remains in Pompeii
Archaeology

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

By Laura Baisas

dog skull
Environment

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

By Popular Science Team

Nubian spitting cobra (
Animals

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

By Andrew Paul

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

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.
Technology

Bug brains could help drone swarms find their way home

By Mack DeGeurin

Nebula’s tiny Capsule 3 portable projector is $100 off during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
Gear

Nebula’s tiny Capsule 3 portable projector is $100 off during Amazon’s Prime Day sale

By Brandt Ranj

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.
Science

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

By Tom Hawking

Rumpl blankets arranged in a row
Gear

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
Technology

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
Animals

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.
Science

The Olympics has been obsessed with sex for centuries

By Popular Science Team

Cat Falling
Science

How animals use physics

By Tom Siegfried / Knowable Magazine

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

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
Gear

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

By Brandt Ranj

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

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

By Tony Ware