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Segway Xyber ebike

Segway Xyber review: The e-bike that forgot it’s an e-bike

By Heather Kuldell-Ware

Wooden shipwreck timber on river shore

A pirate ship that exploded in 1748 may have finally been found

an injured owl with wide eyes

Throwing food out of your car can kill owls

By Margherita Bassi

Grosse Steckmuschel, Pinna nobilis, Les Ferranelles, Medes Inseln, Costa Brava, Mittelmeer, Spanien | Noble Pen Shell, Pinna nobilis, Les Ferranelles, Medes Islands, Costa Brava, Mediterranean Sea, Spain

From waste to wonder: Revival of ancient Roman ‘golden fiber’ with pen shells

a stream of lightning touches the ground with sunlight in the background

Lightning can kill you even if it’s sunny

By Laura Baisas

Black Gabrylly chairs on a blue background

This editor-approved desk chair is 30% off during Amazon’s back-to-school flash sale

Close up of older man using eye drops

Bye bye, bifocals? New eye drops can fix farsightedness

Pompeii street and building ruins on sunny day

After Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii’s ruins housed survivors, wanderers, and treasure hunters

archaeolgists digging in a cave in spain

‘Wartime cannibalism’ unearthed in prehistoric Spanish cave

By Laura Baisas

Artist illustration of supermassive black hole surrounded by cloud of red and yellow gas

Oldest black hole ever seen is 300 million times bigger than our sun

Cropped shot of an unrecognisable man walking through the city in the morning

Fitness & Exercise

No, you don’t need 10,000 steps a day

By Lauren Leffer

Robot and man with exposed brain face to face in spotlight, human vs artificial intelligence

Illinois’ ban on AI therapy won’t stop people from asking chatbots for help

By Mack DeGeurin

Artist illustration of a white dwarf colliding into a larger yellow star

Cosmic bumper stars forge rare, hefty white dwarf

Norselaspis illustration

A googly-eyed fish could upend evolutionary history

two french bulldogs with black fur and white bellies

Your Frenchie’s squishy face might shape their personality

By Laura Baisas

A person with a beard and reddish hair sits in bed, illuminated by the glow of a laptop on their lap. They are looking at the screen and hold a slice of pizza in their right hand, about to take a bite. The room is dimly lit, suggesting it's nighttime.

Does eating late at night really cause weight gain? A nutritionist explains.

By Laura Kiniry

a small, yellow snail with dark eyes

Apple snails can regrow their eyeballs

By Laura Baisas

Robot fiddler crab waving claw at actual male fiddler crab on beach

‘Wavy Dave’ is a beefy-armed robot crab on a mating mission

Australian major skink

Australian lizard mutated to resist snake venom

waves crash by a giant lighthouse

Enormous rogue waves don’t come out of nowhere

By Laura Baisas

A bunch of white Coway Airmega 100 air purifiers against a blue background

Clean your air and derrière with Coway purifiers and bidets up to 27% off at Amazon

Bow of the USS Preston shipwreck sunk in WWII

13 World War II shipwrecks captured in stunning detail

a man kneels down by a tranquilized rhino and applies a substance to its horn

Endangered Species

How to stop rhino poaching: make their horns radioactive

By Margherita Bassi

A woman sitting up in bed at night, looking frustrated and rubbing her neck while a man next to her sleeps with his mouth open. A warm lamp hangs on the wall behind them. The woman appears disturbed by the man's snoring or sleep talking.

Why do we talk in our sleep? ‘It’s a glitch.’

By Lauren Leffer

Two researchers excavating dig site in Norwegian cave, seen from above

Remote Norwegian cave is an ice age animal jackpot

jetsons family in spaceship

Researchers have developed a really clunky version of Rosey from ‘The Jetsons’

By Mack DeGeurin

Black tarantula with pixelated rectangle over back thorax

These tarantulas’ genitals are so long, it required a new genus

AceFit Pro hook-style earbuds shown in Olive Green, Windy Purple, and Cherry Blossom

Flex color while you flex your muscles with AceFit open-air earbuds for 26% off at Amazon

Artist illustration of two plesionectes longicollum plesiosaurs swimming in ocean near aquatic vegetation

Paleontologists discover ‘unusual’ long-necked plesiosaur in Germany

a brown, white, and black guinea pig sits in a cage

Zoo calls for small pet donations to feed its carnivores

By Laura Baisas

a hammerhead shark swimming in blue water

Hammerhead sharks eat other sharks—and it’s worth the risk

By Margherita Bassi

dirty laptop in garbage bin

How to properly (and safely) clean your laptop

a 3D graphic of a pink brain with multicolored, square confetti being tossed at it

How your brain can tell squishy ‘stuff’ from hard ‘things’

By Laura Baisas

a frog and a frog hotel

How to build a frog hotel

By John Alexander

A vintage photo collage shows a man in a suit and glasses looking at a scientific apparatus, with old newspaper clippings in the background discussing "experiments" and "vegetable material" and the possibility of creating food.

100 years ago, scientists thought we’d be eating food made from air

By Bill Gourgey

a purple crab stands on green moss in thailand

Rare purple crabs spotted in Thailand

By Margherita Bassi

Caption: In the Jazan region, mangrove trees are vital coastal habitats that provide a rich food environment for migratory flamingos. These birds feed on algae and small invertebrates like crustaceans and plankton in the shallow waters. The mangroves offer a safe refuge, shielding them from disturbances and predators—making them an ideal rest stop during migration and a key contributor to biodiversity along Saudi Arabia’s coastlines.

Endangered Species

14 beautiful wildlife images from the 2025 Mangrove Photography Awards

By Popular Science Team

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These drones drop burning balls in the forest to control wildfires

By Mack DeGeurin

Bose Quietcomfort headphones and ultra open earbuds

Bose is blowing out noise-canceling headphones and earbuds during its back-to-school sale

By Stan Horaczek

Neolithic burial pit

Electrical workers uncover 5,000-year-old burial pits in Germany

a painting with cool pastel colors and with visible snake scales

This painting uses leather from an invasive Burmese python

By Margherita Bassi

Duluth Trading Co. Buck Naked boxer briefs

Get $80 worth of Duluth Trading Co. underwear for just $38.91—including big and tall sizes

By Stan Horaczek

Close up of three wasps

Radioactive wasp nest found at former nuclear weapons site

X-ray scan of two pieces of luggage showing densely packed electronics, wires, and personal items in vivid colors.

What do TSA bag scanners actually see?

By Diana Hubbell

Long, horizontal streaks of spider lightning below the base of a storm cloud in the Arizona desert in 2008.

A record-breaking lightning bolt just ‘shocked’ meteorologists

By Laura Baisas

Three photos of early hominin and primate skulls

Human teeth evolved to fit our diet

Illustrations of Ice Age mummy tattoo restorations

Tattoo artists and scientists resurrect a 2,000-year-old mummy’s ink

red tomatoes on a vine next to some yellow potatoes and peaches

How the tomato created the potato

By Laura Baisas

a truck flying through the air in the desert

These hand-built suspensions are made to fly in the desert

By Kristin Shaw

The Perseid meteor shower is seen over the Ulanbum grassland in Chifeng city, Inner Mongolia, China, on August 14, 2023.

August stargazing: The Perseids, a ‘big fish,’ celestial conjunctions, and more

orange and white apple watch ultras on a plain background

Amazon has a rare deal on the Apple Watch Ultra 2 Titanium for a limited time

By Stan Horaczek

Loch Ness monster sculpture in lake with googly eyes

The Loch Ness Monster’s body is a ‘zoological impossibility’

The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission Seven successfully landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, March 7, 2025. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, to exercise the service's ability to recover the spaceplane across multiple sites. (U.S. Space Force courtesy photo)

Space Force schedules the next mission for its secret robot plane

an suv on a dirt road

How Audi tweaked its turbo geometry

By Kristin Shaw

Artist's ilustration of the largest gamma-ray burst every observed

The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers

a scientist holds a large, reddish-purple sea star with 24 legs

Meet the 24-armed sea star, a kelp forest’s bodyguard

By Laura Baisas

TORONTO, CANADA - 2024/11/23: Dice used for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Research on Dungeons and Dragons is booming—and it seems like it’s great for your brain

By Popular Science Team

a orange substance sits at the bottom of a plastic cup

Scientists think this orange goo is 2,500-year-old honey

By Laura Baisas

TI-84 Plus calculator on sale at Amazon

Those expensive Texas Instruments calculators your kids need for school are on sale at Amazon

By Stan Horaczek

Hawaiian petroglyphs on sandstone beach with tidal wave

500-year-old petroglyphs resurface on Hawai’i beach

Close up of women flossing

Future vaccines could be delivered by dental floss

A photo showcasing the walnut ring and black radial grille on the earcup of the Meze Audio 105 SILVA headphones

Meze Audio 105 SILVA first impressions: Not just a headphone, a habitat

a painting showing the lava flows of mount vesuvius

Engineers bring a 250-year-old mechanical painting of Mount Vesuvius to fiery life

By Laura Baisas

A young girl in a pink polka-dot swimsuit naps on a towel at the beach, wearing pink sunglasses pushed up on her head.

Ask Us Anything

Why does the beach make you so tired?

By Lauren Leffer