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iphones on purple

How to make text bigger—and 7 other iPhone tricks you might not know

Orlando, FL/USA-7/19/20: A bin of Elmers Glue in the school supply aisle at a Walmart in Orlando, Florida.

Google’s AI Overview tells you to eat glue. (Don’t.)

a green stick insect blending into a green plant

Chance or pattern? Stick insects show repeatable evolution in action

By Laura Baisas

noise cancelling headphones new study

AI-powered headphones can tune into a single voice in a crowd

By Mack DeGeurin

B-21 Raider stealth bomber in flight

See the B-21 nuclear stealth bomber’s first official flight photos

Fit for a dog? The latest science on CBD for pets

By Ula Chrobak / Knowable Magazine

Private jet on tarmac at sunset

Tracking private jets just got much harder

Carrion crow (Corvus corone) perched on wooden fence post and calling. (Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Crows can ‘count’ similarly to toddlers, according to new study

By Lauren Leffer

an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star

Newly discovered exoplanet may be habitable (or a Venus-like hellscape)

By Laura Baisas

Car driving fast in the night city

Speeding cars could start beeping to nag their drivers into slowing down

By Mack DeGeurin

Factory worker overseeing steel forge

Zero-emission ‘electric cement’ is an ‘absolute miracle’

a pink and red galaxy (left). an illustration of the cylindrical euclid space telescope (right)

See 5 dazzling new images from Euclid, the ‘dark universe detective’

By Laura Baisas

screenshot of an AI google search result with a goodbye hand above

How to avoid AI in your Google searches

A proboscis monkey in a mangrove conservation forest in Tarakan, North Borneo, Indonesia. It is light brown in color with a very large, round, droopy, and prominent nose.

These monkeys have giant noses for exactly the reason you think

By Laura Baisas

mri scan of the brain

A new neural implant can translate brain activity in two languages

Fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection (seen in orange/red) in the Pawlowsky glands.

Body lice may be pretty good spreading bubonic plague

By Laura Baisas

This artist's 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.

Astronomers use wobbly star stuff to measure a supermassive black hole’s spin

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin.

Europe’s first Mars rover will use nuclear-powered heaters

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

NASA and Boeing’s Starliner delays expose the challenges of space travel

By Briley Lewis

closeup of bumblebee

How scientists accidentally found out that some bees can hibernate underwater

By Popular Science Team

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along

‘Lungless’ frog species actually had little lungs all along

By Harriet Weber

DNA test tube and cotton swab wipe test

Law enforcement collected over 1.5 million people’s DNA since 2020

A fossilized dinosaur skin specimen under natural light (upper half) and ultraviolet light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin.

Rare skin fossil sheds new light on dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

An aerial view of the rust-colored Kutuk River in Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska. Thawing permafrost is exposing minerals to weathering, increasing the acidity of the water, which releases metals like iron, zinc, and copper.

Why are Alaska’s rivers turning orange?

By Laura Baisas

Hand holding Neuralink implant

85% of Neuralink implant wires are already detached, says patient

the interior of an SUV

How Genesis uses volcanic rock and recycled newspapers in the GV80 SUV

By Kristin Shaw

The composition of the iPhone XR front screen display has been used with several color variations, arranged on the table.

Turn your old iPhone into a dumb phone

Small Plastic pellets on blue cloth

Every human testicle contained microplastics in a new study

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice that’s totally ‘not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson’

Comet above Spain

Watch a meteor’s incredible light show above Spain and Portugal

The so-called 'severe-convective storms' are large and powerful thunderstorms that form and disappear within a few hours or days, often spinning off hail storms and tornadoes as they shoot across the flat expanses of the central United States.

How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry

By Jake Bittle/Grist

Popular Science article about Mount Everest

May 1924: George Mallory’s tragic quest to conquer Everest

Bill Gourgey, Archive Story by Raymond J. Brown Bill Gourgey

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI

OpenAI dissolved its team dedicated to preventing rogue AI

cover of popular science magazine with video phone story on background of old phones

Popular Science Videos

Move over, Facetime: We’re calling on a 1987 Mitsubishi VisiTel videophone

By Popular Science Team, Video by Kevin Lieber

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown

Neuralink seeks its next brain implant volunteer

#NoMowMay may just be a hashtag.

There’s little science behind ‘No Mow May’

By Peter Andrey Smith/Undark

Mars might have an asteroid problem

By Briley Lewis

Farmer finds hunk of charred space debris, potentially from a SpaceX rocket

By Harriet Weber

Making babies may take 10 times more energy than we thought

By Lauren Leffer

Concept art of lunar base with floating train path alongside astronauts

Wild NASA proposal envisions magnetic hover trains on the moon

The Red Pyramid at the Dahshur necropolis, constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.

Long-lost Nile branch may explain landlocked pyramids

Three 3D printed polypills

One 3D-printed ‘polypill’ could fit an entire day’s medications

Unitree G1 humanoid robot bending limbs while sitting on couch

Worryingly bendy humanoid robot can crush nuts, slice Coke bottles

Drone spraying over graffiti

Washington state deploys $30,000 drone to combat graffiti

Chicken looking at camera against black background

Chicken fat supercapacitors could store green energy of the future

A father and son designed the world’s fastest quadcopter drone

A father and son designed the world’s fastest quadcopter drone

Neuralink N1 implant device breakdown

Neuralink admits patient’s brain implant is partially ‘retracted’

Video game hall of fame 2024 inductees

The World Video Game Hall of Fame announces its 2024 inductees

Archivist scanning documents at National Archives

Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records

Tandem insulin pump installed on woman's stomach

FDA issues recall for diabetes app after over 200 reported injuries

Fake website advertising dead loved one chatbot

AI ethicists warn of ‘digital hauntings’ from dead loved ones

Ultrasonic cold brew setup using espresso maker and transducer

Blasting coffee grounds with ultrasonic waves creates a 60-second cold brew

Snail robots forming a staircase to reach rock ledge

Swarm of tiny snail robots stick together to form new structures

A person writing on a new M2 iPad Air with an Apple Pencil.

7 things you should know about the new M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air

By Stan Horaczek

Project 821 hydrogen fuel superyacht in port

Welcome aboard the world’s first hydrogen fuel cell superyacht

SpaceX EVA suit helmet close up

SpaceX reveals new sleek spacesuits ahead of upcoming historic mission

Assyrian mural image of lion

Ancient mystery code was probably Sargon II’s name

Telecom towers in farmland

Many rural areas could soon lose cell service

A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-6 mission lunar probe, lifts off as it rains at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on May 3, 2024.

China is en route to collect first-ever samples from the far side of the moon

Sun above earth photo taken from ISS

Space Force finds a dead Cold War-era satellite missing for 25 years

Close up of orangutan

Endangered Species

Orangutan observed using a plant to treat an open wound

Side by side of Reid AI deepfake and Reid Hoffman

Watch a tech billionaire talk to his AI-generated clone

Artist rendering of exoplanet WASP-43b

JWST measures ‘Hot Jupiter,’ a distant exoplanet hot enough to forge iron