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A history of trepanning: Why do we put holes in our skulls?

By Popular Science Team

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Watch us try to make ‘Butler in a Box’ work like it’s 1983

By Annie Colbert

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Is bigger better? Not when it comes to the world’s strongest animals.

Brown garden snail eating a strawberry on a white table

Experience the uncomfortable weirdness of a snail eating fruit

By Laura Baisas

Twelve fresh eggs in a DIY wooden egg holder on a granite countertop.

Go ahead, leave your fresh eggs on the counter in this handmade wooden tray

By Jean Levasseur

Harvard robotic arm with tentacle filaments gripping succulent plant

This spooky robot uses inflatable tentacles to grab delicate items

Cassie bipedal robot running on relay track

This robot broke a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash

Clicking ‘dislike’ on YouTube probably doesn’t do much to customize your feed

Clicking ‘dislike’ on YouTube probably doesn’t do much to customize your feed

By Harry Guinness

Moose calf running from grizzly bear in shallow water

A wedding videographer filmed a bear preying on a moose—during the groom’s vows

By Dac Collins / Outdoor Life

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Google’s DeepMind AI can ‘transframe’ a single image into a video

YouTube screenshot of snake using DIY invention to walk with robot legs

Watch a snake wearing robot trousers strut like a lizard

Training autonomous cars to drive off-road is as hard as it looks

Training autonomous cars to drive off-road is as hard as it looks

By Hazel Southwell/The Drive

How to only watch the best bits and other tricks to upgrade your YouTube experience

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How to easily share anything from your phone

Twitter’s new policy aims to protect private individuals in photos

By Colleen Hagerty

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Watch your favorite TikTok over and over by setting it as a live wallpaper

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A child sitting under a stool, trying to guess the password on a phone.

A guide to parental controls on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services

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The bizarre botany that makes corn a fruit, a grain, and also (kind of) a vegetable

By Sara Chodosh

Videos show a surreal ‘eye of fire’ in the Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures at sea

Videos show a surreal ‘eye of fire’ in the Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures at sea

By Rachel Feltman

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Music videos are marketing vaping products to teens—and it’s working

By Jon-Patrick Allem/The Conversation

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A new poll reveals split opinions on how—and when—police body cam footage is released

By Bromberg & Charbonneau/The Conversation

A skunk standing in the grass.

Watch a black bear take on a striped skunk in a surprising faceoff

By Bill Heavey/Field & Stream

A gloved hand putting a lighter to a snowball

Why snow doesn’t melt when you set it on fire

By Douglas Main

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Learn to use picture-in-picture on all your devices

A captive spotted eagle ray feeding on mollusks in a tank

Listen to the soothing sounds of a snacking stingray

By Purbita Saha

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The Boston Dynamics robots are surprisingly good dancers

By Stan Horaczek

Instant hot cocoa is a starchy disaster. Here’s how to make your own.

Instant hot cocoa is a starchy disaster. Here’s how to make your own.

By Sara Chodosh

Remembering one of history’s greatest whale explosions

By Sara Kiley Watson

A bigfin squid floating in the water

The strange and ethereal bigfin squid just showed up off the coast of Australia

By Rachael Zisk

Paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor birding with her mother in China

Birds are dinosaurs, and this fossil detective has rooms full of bones to prove it

By Science Friday

Microsoft video authenticator

Microsoft’s new video authenticator could help weed out dangerous deepfakes

By Stan Horaczek

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Turn an old spoon into a fishing lure that’ll catch almost anything

By Joe Cermele/Field & Stream

A tadpole of a gray tree frog sucks in a bubble full of oxygen.

Watch tiny tadpoles breathe by ‘bubble sucking’

By Purbita Saha

Paul Rudd says "Hey, look at us."

Ten GIFs that really got us through 2019

By Jason Lederman

Coin pusher machine.

YouTube rabbit holes to suck up your free time

By Stan Horaczek

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Is it possible to eat so much that your stomach explodes?

By Tom McNamara

The only detox you need is sleep—but it’s not totally clear why

The only detox you need is sleep—but it’s not totally clear why

How to make the perfect french fry, according to science

How to make the perfect french fry, according to science

By Jason Lederman

What will we name the solar system’s next planet?

By Jason Lederman

The mummified, severed head of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

12 weird science facts to share with your family this holiday

By Jason Lederman

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The 8 best science images, videos, and visualizations of the year

By Kate Baggaley

How to set up your home Wi-Fi

How to set up your home Wi-Fi

By Jason Lederman

How to make the world’s best paper airplane

How to make the world’s best paper airplane

By Jason Lederman

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ASMR videos are just beginning to whisper their anti-anxiety secrets to scientists

By Thomas Hostler/The Conversation

The chemicals in your cosmetics aren’t regulated

The chemicals in your cosmetics aren’t regulated

By Rachel Feltman

Graph of annual mean temperature by year from 1880-2017

What happens if Earth gets 2°C warmer?

By Jason Lederman

One orange kitten, two grey kittens, two brown kittens

Kittens from the same litter don’t always have the same parents

By Jason Lederman

WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches ever

WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches ever

By Jason Lederman

WATCH: Bill Nye on science media, politics, and the feature film he wants to make

WATCH: Bill Nye on science media, politics, and the feature film he wants to make

By Jason Lederman

Hurricane Harvey

Could brighter clouds make hurricanes less destructive?

By Jason Lederman

E=mc² became famous for all the wrong reasons

E=mc² became famous for all the wrong reasons

By Tom McNamara

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Watch Bill Nye respond to anti-science tweets

By Jason Lederman

To make chef Jet Tila’s chewy drunken noodles, you’ll need to brush up on your chemistry

To make chef Jet Tila’s chewy drunken noodles, you’ll need to brush up on your chemistry

By Jason Lederman

A brief history of spacewalks

A brief history of spacewalks

By Jason Lederman

Soft plant-inspired robot navigates a maze

Plant-inspired soft robot grows to reach difficult places

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Smile for the Hubble

Space Shots: The Universe’s Best Images

By Popular Science Team

Facebook is hiring 3000 new content monitors for a job AI cannot do

Facebook is hiring 3000 new content monitors for a job AI cannot do

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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Drone Racing League’s new Racer3 aircraft tops out at 85 mph

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Watch these bees attack a baseball game—then learn why they did it

By Sara Chodosh

underwater image of true's beaked whale

Here’s the first video of one of the planet’s most elusive beaked whales

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls

Watch scientists train bees to play with tiny soccer balls

By Mary Beth Griggs

How to make eggs without any chickens

How to make eggs without any chickens

By Jason Lederman

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This Fish Burrows Up A Sea Cucumber’s Anus For Safety (And Food)

The World’s Largest LEGO Structure Is A Car Ad

The World’s Largest LEGO Structure Is A Car Ad

By Kelsey D. Atherton