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(Original Caption) 1888- New York, NY: Workers dig out the snow from underneath an elevated train line after the blizzard of 1888. BPA2# 5413

14 remarkable images of New York City’s 1888 blizzard

By Popular Science Team

eyeball melting

Stop staring at screens so much. Here’s how.

A great white shark swims near Guadalupe Island in Mexico.

Great white sharks don’t always flee after orca attacks

By Margherita Bassi

A small Chihuahua wearing a jacket while walking on a frosty, sunny day. Outdoor photo.

Why do little dogs shiver so much? We asked the experts.

By Niranjana Rajalakshmi

How to switch from iPhone to Android (or vice versa)

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