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

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

By Jean Levasseur

close up to laptop connection sockets
DIY

What cables to connect to your TVs and monitors for the best picture

By David Nield

Harvard robotic arm with tentacle filaments gripping succulent plant
Technology

This spooky robot uses inflatable tentacles to grab delicate items

By Andrew Paul

Cassie bipedal robot running on relay track
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

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

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
Environment

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

By Dac Collins / Outdoor Life

Screenshot of DeepMind Transframer image examples from Google
Technology

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

By Andrew Paul

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

Watch a snake wearing robot trousers strut like a lizard

By Andrew Paul

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

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

By Hazel Southwell/The Drive

Smartphone-on-desk-with-youtube-logo-on-screen
DIY

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

By David Nield

close up to hands holding phones
DIY

How to easily share anything from your phone

By David Nield

twitter
Technology

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

By Colleen Hagerty

Camera looking over the shoulder of a person sitting at a desk and looking at their Android phone
DIY

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.
DIY

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

By David Nield

corn cob blue background
Science

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
Environment

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

By Rachel Feltman

Model with long brown hair along the water using a vape pen
Health

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

By Jon-Patrick Allem/The Conversation

LAPD officers with batons and helmets on the street at night
Technology

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.
Environment

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

By Bill Heavey/Field & Stream

Sony FX3 cinema camera front without a lens
Gear

Sony’s compact FX3 cinema camera has a built-in cooling system

By Stan Horaczek

A gloved hand putting a lighter to a snowball
Science

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

By Douglas Main

Person on the floor browsing YouTube videos on a smartphone.
DIY

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

By David Nield

A captive spotted eagle ray feeding on mollusks in a tank
Environment

Listen to the soothing sounds of a snacking stingray

By Purbita Saha

Boston Dynamics dancing robots atlas and spot
Technology

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.
DIY

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

By Sara Chodosh

Dynamite box.
Environment

Remembering one of history’s greatest whale explosions

By Sara Kiley Watson

A bigfin squid floating in the water
Environment

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

By Rachael Zisk

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil in front of a computer screen with galaxy images
Science

How one Turkish astronomer discovered a completely new kind of galaxy

By Science Friday

Paleontologist Jingmai O'Connor birding with her mother in China
Science

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

By Science Friday

Microsoft video authenticator
Technology

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

By Stan Horaczek

Sony A7S III Camera
Gear

Sony’s long-awaited A7S III is built for shooting high-res video in the dark

By Stan Horaczek

Blackmagic URSA Mini 12K
Gear

Blackmagic’s new camera shoots cinema-quality 12K footage for just $9,995

By Stan Horaczek

Panasonic G100
Gear

Panasonic’s new vlogging camera uses facial recognition tracking to isolate the sound of your voice

By Stan Horazek

angler holding up a mahi mahi caught on a spoon lure
DIY

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.
Science

Watch tiny tadpoles breathe by ‘bubble sucking’

By Purbita Saha

Paul Rudd says "Hey, look at us."
Technology

Ten GIFs that really got us through 2019

By Jason Lederman

Coin pusher machine.
Technology

YouTube rabbit holes to suck up your free time

By Stan Horaczek

A stomach full of food, a balloon
Science

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
Health

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

By Kat Eschner

How to make the perfect french fry, according to science
Science

How to make the perfect french fry, according to science

By Jason Lederman

Planet X
Science

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

By Jason Lederman

The mummified, severed head of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham
Science

12 weird science facts to share with your family this holiday

By Jason Lederman

Many circular lines on a black background
Science

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

By Kate Baggaley

How to set up your home Wi-Fi
Technology

How to set up your home Wi-Fi

By Jason Lederman

How to make the world’s best paper airplane
DIY

How to make the world’s best paper airplane

By Jason Lederman

girl listening to headphones
Health

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
Health

The chemicals in your cosmetics aren’t regulated

By Rachel Feltman

Graph of annual mean temperature by year from 1880-2017
Environment

What happens if Earth gets 2°C warmer?

By Jason Lederman

One orange kitten, two grey kittens, two brown kittens
Environment

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

By Jason Lederman

WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches ever
Science

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
Environment

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

By Jason Lederman

Hurricane Harvey
Environment

Could brighter clouds make hurricanes less destructive?

By Jason Lederman

E=mc² became famous for all the wrong reasons
Environment

E=mc² became famous for all the wrong reasons

By Tom McNamara

Bill Nye holding a phone
Science

Watch Bill Nye respond to anti-science tweets

By Jason Lederman

VIDEO: Siri talks to HAL 9000 about A.I. sexism
Technology

VIDEO: Siri talks to HAL 9000 about A.I. sexism

By Tom McNamara

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

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
Science

A brief history of spacewalks

By Jason Lederman

Soft plant-inspired robot navigates a maze
Technology

Plant-inspired soft robot grows to reach difficult places

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Smile for the Hubble
Science

Space Shots: The Universe’s Best Images

By Popular Science Team

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

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

By Kelsey D. Atherton

American Beaver
Environment

What’s the deal with this beaver herding a bunch of cows?

By Sarah Fecht

Overhead view for Racer3 drone
Technology

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

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Bee hive
Environment

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

By Sara Chodosh

Green hat and shirt
DIY

How to green screen your friends’ St. Patrick’s Day garb

By Jason Lederman