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a monkey with white and black fur and a blue-ish face sits in a tree

Endangered Species

Blue-faced, puffy-lipped monkey scores a rare conservation win

By Margherita Bassi

Red robots in row

Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

By Mack DeGeurin

a woman scratches an uncomfortable itch on her forearm

How your body knows when to stop scratching

By Laura Baisas

A homemade cardboard box containing a Tetris game and four buttons

Man builds Tetris console inside cardboard box

Silicon Landscapes is a collage of circuit boards interwoven with aerial photographs of water treatment facilities, agricultural lands, industrial sites and mining machinery. It represents the resource-intensive material realities of AI systems transforming the natural landscapes through extractivist processes.

The Internet Archive records its 1 trillionth website

People wearing cool jackets that are on-sale at Backcountry.com

The Backcountry.com winter clearance sale has hundreds of coats and jackets for up to 60% off

By Stan Horaczek

Left: An artist’s drawing of Earth’s magnetic field (blue lines) interacting with the Sun’s charged particles (yellow lines). The Earth’s magnetosphere (orange crescent) is created by Earth’s magnetic field. It deflects those particles like an umbrella. Right: NASA MMS mission observations like those volunteers would see while participating in the Space Umbrella project.

Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster

a parrot with mostly green feathers and yellow feathers on the neck

The parrots having human-like conversations

By Margherita Bassi

An 1870 sepia-toned photograph of Crawford Market in Mumbai, featuring its prominent stone clock tower and Gothic-style architecture with arched windows. In the foreground, people walk along a dirt road near a horse-drawn carriage and a vintage street lamp.

The history of clocks is one of tyranny and revolution

Clay footprint in Scottish beach sand

Dog walkers find 2,000-year-old footprints on beach in Scotland

Dell Days Amazon deals header

Amazon’s Dell Deal Days sale is blowing out monitors, laptops, desktop PCs, and more for clearance prices

By Stan Horaczek

Spinosaurus mirabilis illustration

New dinosaur discovered in Sahara desert was a horned ‘hell heron’

Professional male musician creates new song for music album by playing synthesizer in studio. Top view at angle on head of bald man in headphones who sits at microphone and presses keys of synthesizer

Can’t stop humming that tune? Thank math.

a large group of yellow bananas

New discovery could help stop banana extinction

By Laura Baisas

a large bird called a wood stork stands in a wetland. it has long legs, white feathers, and a long beak

Wood storks to be removed from federal Endangered Species List

By Laura Baisas

Magnifying glass resting in open dictionary

Groovy! Dive into the world’s largest online slang dictionary

an illustration of a dinosaur biting another dinosaur

A Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded in dinosaur skull tells a violent story

By Laura Baisas

AI generated image of dogs walking through outdoor heated tunnel with red X across it

No, Hungary did not construct heated tunnels for its stray dogs

a pekingese dogs. it has floppy ears, a scrunched up face, and brown fur

Chihuahua, boxer, and 10 other dog breeds at risk of breathing troubles

By Laura Baisas

Two women wearing YETI backpacks hiking down the Wildflowers Trail in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

YETI launches the Skala hiking pack, combining durable design and advanced organization

a puma bits a guanaco

20 riveting images from the Sony World Photography Awards 2026

By Popular Science Team

African striped mouse and pups

Biologists discover gene that may determine ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dads

A colorized historical photograph of a woman in a white coat holding Simon, a black and white tuxedo cat who served as a celebrated ship's cat in the British Royal Navy. The cat wears a pink collar with a name tag, and both the woman and the cat are positioned in front of a dark window.

The tiny tuxedo cat who became a naval hero

Tiny Macintosh model computer built into toy novelty clock

Hobbyist builds retro Apple Macintosh inside toy clock

Artistic reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene cave lion overlooking Mount Fuji, Japan. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski

Prehistoric Japan was home to cave lions—not tigers

a small mammal with black eyes and big ears standing on a plant

World’s smallest possum may be hiding in South Australia

By Laura Baisas

The Midnight sun over the icebergs in the Weddell Sea from the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

a tunnel under roman ruins

Inside the Colosseum’s Passage of Commodus, where emperors once walked

By Margherita Bassi

5,000-year-old bacteria thawed in Romanian ice cave

By Laura Baisas

a hand moves pieces on a brown and black chess board

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

By Mack DeGeurin

cartoon version of map

3 pro tips for using Google Maps before you even start your trip

a hamster asleep in the gloved hand of a scientist

How hibernating hamsters could help astronauts

By Margherita Bassi

a fox catches a crab mid-air3rd Place Photographer of the Year 2025 was awarded to Terry Donnelly from England, UK.

Society of Photographers announces Photographer of the Year

By Popular Science Team

Helix Sunset Elite

The best President’s Day Sales in 2026

By Stan Horaczek

Patagonia puffer jacket on winter clearance

Don’t miss Patagonia’s end-of-season clearance sale on coats, jackets, hoodies, fleeces, and more

By Stan Horaczek

A dramatic, close-up photo of a black cat's face emerging from deep shadows. Only its large, luminous yellow-green eyes are brightly lit, staring directly forward with wide pupils that reflect a faint glimmer of light.

Why do cats’ eyes glow in the dark?

By Clarissa Brincat

live black scorpion (Emperor Scorpion)

Deadly scorpions are picky about their soil

a pigeon. the bird as light grey feathers with green and purple feathers around the neck

550 pigeons rescued in North Carolina

By Laura Baisas

Old coins from Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Federal Republic of Germany and Austria. These coins are dating from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

How to start a coin collection

a white driverless car drives in front of a large state capitol building

Radio waves could help driverless cars see around corners

By Mack DeGeurin

glute stretch knee across belly

Fitness & Exercise

7 glute stretches for better mobility and less pain

By Jordan Burchette

19th century Japanese coin in metal detectorist's hand

Metal detectorist finds 19th century Japanese coin in Australia

VAL D'ISERE FRANCE. 19-12-2010. Lindsey Vonn (USA) during the Super Giant Slalom section of the women's Super Combined race at the FIS Alpine skiing World Cup Val D'Isere France.

Downhill skiing’s biggest hurdle? Friction.

a litter of naked mole rats

4 wild ways animals breed

By Laura Baisas

Patagonia winter sale bag deals header

Patagonia is blowing out its popular backpacks, hiking bags, and duffles during its massive winter clearance sale

By Stan Horaczek

Example of paired images used during free-view eyetracking study. These image pairs focused on participant reactions to spider versus other arthropods – (A) spider versus butterfly, (B) spider versus insect, (C) spider eyes versus insect eyes, (D) spider versus non-spider arachnid, and (E) spider versus myriapod. We also included a paired image of (F) scorpion versus non-scorpion arachnid to gain insight into whether participants respond differently to spiders versus scorpions (e.g., d vs. f).

Psychologists made people look at spiders. They didn’t like it.

the sun hits a waterfall so it looks like fire

Yosemite’s glowing, golden waterfall is flowing again

By Margherita Bassi

A portrait of two brothers, Nico and Matteo Mucchetti, posing with their homemade, full-sized replica of a purple ride vehicle from Disney's "Big Hero 6" attraction. The younger brother sits inside the purple wooden structure, which is detailed with orange accents and a string of LED lights along the edge, while the older brother leans over the back. They are positioned in a dimly lit room, creating a dramatic spotlight effect on them and their project.

Teen brothers build a Disney-inspired ride in family basement

By Laura Kiniry

Close up of man's hand on chin while he's thinking

Humans really don’t need chins

Platinum Silver Sony WF-1000XM6 true wireless ANC earbuds sitting in a bowl of crystals

Sony’s new WF-1000XM6 ANC earbuds disappeared in my ears so the outside world and inner demons vanished from my mind

a zookeper places a piece of apple inside of an elephant's trunk

Elephants are smart. So are their whiskers.

By Laura Baisas

EF EcoFlow portable power stations

Grab these EF EcoFlow portable power stations and solar generators for blowout prices during this flash sale

By Stan Horaczek

a whale swimming

The oldest-known humpback whale recording was hiding in an archive

By Laura Baisas

These observations by NASA’s SPHEREx show the infrared light emitted by the dust, water, organic molecules, and carbon dioxide contained within comet 3I/ATLAS’s coma during the mission’s December 2025 campaign.

Space Telescope

Comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving the solar system with a dramatic light show

a bobsledder backlit

The U.S. Olympic bobsled team borrowed Honda’s wind tunnel for test runs

By Kristin Shaw

A vintage, colorful movie poster for the 1931 film Frankenstein. In the center, a large, dramatic close-up of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster looms over the other characters. He has a pale, squared-off head, visible scarring on his forehead, and heavy-lidded eyes looking downward with a somber expression. The poster is divided into segments: Bottom left: A well-dressed man in a suit and a woman in a pink dress look off-camera with concerned expressions. Bottom right: Two men are engaged in a tense conversation; one appears to be Dr. Frankenstein, gesturing animatedly with his hands toward an older man. The overall aesthetic is dark and atmospheric, using a "vignette" style with deep blacks and pops of green and blue in the background.

Human head transplants’ gory, Frankenstein-esque history

By Nidhi Sharma

Stirling, Scotland - August 1, 2020, old medieval cemetery around Port of Menteith Parish Church

Medieval elite still received fancy burials despite disease stigma

Castle Geyser erupts with hot water and steam with pools of thermophilic bacteria and it's a cone geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States.

Yellowstone’s supervolcano is creating a 19-mile bulge

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I tested the Wolfbox 4-in-1 Jump Starter with Air Compressor during a real-world emergency

By Stan Horaczek

white bird poop on a black car

Bird poop powered this pre-Hispanic kingdom

By Margherita Bassi

An illustration symbolizes new battery technology: Proteins (red) hold tiny clusters of metal (silver). Each yellow ball in the structures at center represents a single atom of nickel or iron. Credit: Maher El-Kady / UCLA

Thomas Edison’s failed rechargeable battery may get a second life

A broadcast drone hovers as Britain's Makayla Gerken Schofield competes in the freestyle skiing women's moguls qualification 1 during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Aerials & Moguls Park, in Livigno (Valtellina), on February 10, 2026. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

The tech behind the Olympics: High-speed cameras, sensors, and annoying drones

By Mack DeGeurin

A large brown bear rests in a snowy den, its fur dusted with fresh white snow. Only the bear's head and upper back are visible as it huddles at the entrance of a dark opening nestled under evergreen branches. The bear's eyes are closed, appearing to be in a deep sleep or state of torpor.

No, bears don’t actually hibernate

By Andrew Coletti