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a close up of leopard spots

Why do animals have spots and stripes?

By Laura Baisas

Can dogs really smell fear? A vet weighs in.

By Clarissa Brincat

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Apple Maps in iOS 26 keeps track of your favorite places

Northern right whale.Eubalaena glacialis.Courting group. Several males approach a female (on left). Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are making a slow comeback

By Margherita Bassi

The first six women in newly issued, incompletely adorned astronaut jumpsuits, 1978: (front, left to right) Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon; (rear) Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Anna Fisher, Judy Resnik.

NASA’s trailblazing generation

By Valerie Neal

Woman sitting on back seat having headache

Why you get carsick—and how an iPhone feature might help

Archaeologists discover massive ancient Egyptian fortress

By Margherita Bassi

a big cat with flamingo in its mouth dead

13 riveting images from the 2025 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Close up of solar flare on sun

Scientists prepare for the next Carrington Event

Anker solix portable power station, portable phone charger, and charging dock

Amazon is clearing out Anker chargers, cables, adapters, and more during this post-Prime Day sale

By Stan Horaczek

The STS-92 crew exits the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to the Astrovan and Launch Pad 39A for a simulated countdown. Walking left to right are (foreground) Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata of Japan, Peter J.K. “Jeff” Wisoff and Leroy Chiao; and Pilot Pamela Ann Melroy. Behind them are Mission Specialists Michael E. Lopez-Alegria and William S. McArthur Jr.; and Commander Brian Duffy. The crew is taking part in Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities that provide emergency egress training, opportunities to inspect the mission payload, and the simulated countdown. STS-92 is scheduled to launch Oct. 5 at 9:38 p.m. EDT on the fifth flight to the International Space Station. It will carry two elements of the Space Station, the Integrated Truss Structure Z1 and the third Pressurized Mating Adapter. The mission is also the 100th flight in the Shuttle program

A NASA commander’s most important system wasn’t a computer. It was the crew.

Skull of a soldier from the Napoleon army next to a button from a soldier's uniform.

The real killer of Napoleon’s army revealed by DNA testing

The tree is constructed from a metal pole, with sea glass strung down from the top.

Meet the man who built a 15-foot-tall sea glass Christmas tree

By Laura Baisas

Roman skeletons in water well mass grave

Ancient Roman mass grave shows its army’s ethnic diversity

the head of a large brown horse

Why do horses have eyes on the side of their head?

By Katie Navarra Bradley

A panoramic, dark, and eerie photograph of a dense forest shrouded in thick fog or mist. The trees are tall and silhouetted, with a single, dark, cloaked figure standing in a patch of brighter light at the center of the path, creating a spooky and mysterious atmosphere.

What Americans fear most in 2025

Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens with fossil preparator Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago. The dinosaur mummy nicknamed “Ed Jr.,” was covered by floodwaters some 66 million years ago, preserving its fossilized skeleton and, in a thin clay layer, large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back.

Dinosaur ‘mummies’ prove some dinos had hooves

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2025 Audio Awards: 25 sound investments for sonic satisfaction

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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

You’re actually not allowed to keep bird feathers you find on hikes—and it’s all thanks to two women who got really mad about hats

By Popular Science Team

A ringworm mosquito (Culiseta annulata) is seen on a control monitor connected to a microscope in the laboratory for mosquito monitoring at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) on the island of Riems in Germany.

Iceland was the only country in the world without mosquitos—now they’ve found three

By Margherita Bassi

In 3D the kissing number is 12, as illustrated by basketballs. Illustration: Kira Vesikko / Aalto University

Human outsmarts Google DeepMind AI, solving centuries-old ‘kissing problem’

a rattlesnake with an open mouth bearing its fangs

How snake bites really work

By Laura Baisas

A close-up, head-on portrait of a Dalmatian dog with striking bright blue eyes. The dog has a white face with black spots covering its head and ears, and is wearing a brown leather collar. The background is a simple, blurred gray surface.

Can dogs sense ghosts?

By Clarissa Brincat

Reconstructed image of the compact, fast-rotating asymmetric disc around β CMi. The white scale bar at the bottom right marks 1 milliarcsecond — equivalent to a 6 feet scale at the distance of the moon.

Astronomers’ telescope ‘hack’ uncovered a lopsided star

Butter is slowly melting in a frying pan

New recycling method turns Teflon into toothpaste fluoride

pinworm under microscope

Ancient poop from Mexico’s ‘Cave of the Dead Children’ teems with parasites

By Laura Baisas

Close up of bearded dragon against black background

Reptile ‘pee crystals’ might help treat kidney stones and gout

A nighttime photograph shows a suburban house transformed into a dramatic haunted house display, illuminated by intense purple and blue lighting. The front lawn is covered with numerous Halloween decorations, including glowing ghosts, demonic gargoyles flanking a sign that reads "THE VENEZIALE MANOR," skeletons, and lighted pumpkin figures. A bright moon or spotlight shines in the upper right.

Teen turns his suburban home into elaborate haunted house every October

By Laura Kiniry

Group of people speaking in conference room, out of focus image

Men speak with a vocal fry just as much as women

A red cusk-eel burrowed in among tubeworms at a methane seep off the coast of El Quisco in central Chile. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Tiny spider crabs snack on parasites from Chile’s favorite fish

World’s only flightless parrot doing okay against ‘crusty bum’ disease

By Laura Baisas

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The Bambu Lab A1 is the best multi-color 3D printer for beginners and it’s up to $260 off at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. Robbers broke in to the Louvre and fled with jewellery on October 19, 2025 morning, a source close to the case said, adding that its value was still being evaluated. A police source said an unknown number of thieves arrived on a scooter armed with small chainsaws and used a goods lift to reach the room they were targeting. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Why the Louvre heist doesn’t surprise museum security experts

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How to use Visual Intelligence on your iPhone with iOS 26

A photograph of a young couple sitting close together in a dark movie theater, looking scared or startled during a film. The man on the left has his hands covering part of his face, grimacing, while the woman next to him is covering her face with one hand. They are sharing a large bucket of popcorn.

Is fear contagious?

By Sarah Philip

A 50 cent coin from 1817 (left) and an 1846 Liberty head one-cent coin (right) are just two of the numerous objects uncovered in a dig in Troy, Ohio.

Rare 19th-century coins found after fire at historic tavern

By Laura Baisas

Kidney transplant in container

Donor organ’s blood type altered for the first time

A 3D model of the ancient Roman water basin uncovered about 11 miles east of Rome.

Forgotten rival of Ancient Rome featured an impressive water basin

By Margherita Bassi

Big bison in the National Park on the shore of a lake or river

This national park uses helicopters for bison round-up duty

a woman running with snow-capped mountains in the background

Fitness & Exercise

Ultra-endurance athletes can burn up to 8,000 calories per day

By Laura Baisas

A photograph of an old, abandoned operating room with peeling, distressed green paint on the walls. The room is symmetrically framed, featuring a central metal operating table and a large surgical lamp hanging from the ceiling. Two tall, barred windows on either side are brightly backlit, casting a dramatic light into the dim room.

Ask Us Anything

What makes a place seem ‘haunted’?

By Laura Kiniry

Onyx Black Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 headphones in their case amongst bright green plants.

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 noise-cancelling wireless headphones review: Turning transit into theatre

atlas robot holding up its three-digit hands

Robot hands are becoming more human

By Mack DeGeurin

Woman leaning back in office chair at desk looking out window

Fitness & Exercise

Deep sighs are not only satisfying—they’re healthy

A family of grizzly bears, including a mother and three cubs

18 triumphant images from the 1839 Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

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The coolest new iPhone Messages features

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Fitness & Exercise

4 ways to fix ‘tech neck,’ according to a physical therapist

By Jordan Burchette

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Ants ‘social distance’ during a pandemic

By Margherita Bassi

pouring coffee into a white cup that is sitting on coffee beans

Coffee’s delicious journey from tiny bean to tasty brew

By Sara Kiley Watson

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This 297-piece Kobalt Mechanics Tool Kit is just $99 at Lowe’s with an included tool box

By Stan Horaczek

ROV screenshot of dive to Titan submersible debris on ocean floor

OceanGate’s ‘Titan’ went on 7 dives with a damaged hull before implosion

Dubai chocolate is a dessert prepared with milk and dark chocolate, roasted shredded wheat, pistachio paste and tahini.

Why foods like Dubai chocolate go viral

Security camera footage of bear entering grocery store in Japan

Bears have attacked over 100 people in Japan since March

a lemur in a tree

Lemurs keep evolving new species, even after 50 million years

By Margherita Bassi

empty capsules with a colorful capsule-like device in the middle

World’s smallest ‘bioprinter’ is the size of a pill

By Mack DeGeurin

A dramatic, wide-angle photo of a scarecrow standing in a dry cornfield or patch of tall, brown crops at sunset. The scarecrow is dressed in a dark hat and long coat, with a sack covering its head and stick arms outstretched. The sky above is colored with orange and pink clouds.

How scarecrows went from ancient magic to fall horror fodder

Eddie Bauer fall clearance sale apparel

Almost everything on the Eddie Bauer website is on clearance for 50% off (or more) right now

By Stan Horaczek

Paranthropus boisei. Reproduction of an adult skull. 1,8 million years ago. Pleistocene. Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

This overlooked human ancestor wielded tools with a gorilla-like grip

Close up of stink bug on leaf

These stink bugs use cordycep-like fungus to fend off parasitic wasps

Aerial photo of ancient ice storage facility excavation next to photos of a burial jar containing Chinese coins

Ancient underground freezer unearthed at South Korean castle

a baby sea turtle crawling on sand

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

By Laura Baisas

A striking photograph of a bright, full moon against a dark, deep blue night sky, partially obscured by dark, dramatic clouds. The moon is intensely bright, giving the scene an ethereal glow.

Yes, the moon really can affect your sleep

By Clarissa Brincat

WeatherStar 4000+ website showing three day weather forecast in retro graphics

Weather Channel gets jazzy, retro makeover from dedicated online fans

Close up of Neanderthal skull

Lead has been poisoning humans for over 2 million years