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the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. it has a wave like crest at the top of its skull
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A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

By Laura Baisas

tap water
Science

‘Unidentified product’ in tap water identified after 40 years

By Tom Hawking

bottlenose dolphin screaming
Environment

A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years

By Mack DeGeurin

Each individual strand is too narrow to be clearly captured by any form of visible light camera or microscope.
Science

Behold the world’s thinnest spaghetti

By Laura Baisas

toes in pool
Science

Why do humans have toenails? Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos.’

By Lauren Leffer

Ethiopian wolf licking nectar from Ethiopian red hot poker plant
Environment

These wolves are the first known carnivores to ‘enjoy’ sweets

By Andrew Paul

A mother and calf West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in Crystal River, Florida.
Environment

Florida’s famous manatees were originally tourists

By Laura Baisas

Marine fossils found at Neanderthal cave site
Science

Neanderthals may have enjoyed collecting tchotchkes—just like us

By Andrew Paul

Inhumation grave 26, shown in the original field photograph (left), with bones in anatomical articulation lying on their right side with flexed legs.
Science

This ancient skeleton turned out to have eight different people in it

By Popular Science Team

a side by side of a rare gold coin from 1870
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Rare California Gold Rush coin fetches $1.44 million at auction

By Laura Baisas

an astronaut on a spacewalk in a full spacesuit takes a selfie with earth in the background
Science

Six months in space is not that bad for your brain

By Laura Baisas

stone walls separating several small houses in ireland
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Scottish, Irish, and Northern English better at detecting fake accents

By Laura Baisas

SpaceX Starship launching on fifth test flight
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The SpaceX Starship is so loud, it may kill birds

By Andrew Paul

Aurora MK-II rocket plane above Earth
Technology

Watch the first commercial supersonic test flight in over 20 years

By Andrew Paul

a silver coin minted before the american revolution. one side has the letters NE on it for new england and the other has the roman numeral 3 for its value
Science

Colonial silver coin found in cabinet sells for $2.5 million

By Laura Baisas

the sound of your own voice
Science

Why do people hate the sound of their own voice?

By Julia Craven

An eye and arms of an octopus. The small dots visible around the eye are the chromatophores.
Science

For octopuses, changing colors is hard work

By Lauren Leffer

Various images of Bes mugs
Science

Ancient Egyptian ritual potion included hallucinogens and bodily fluids

By Andrew Paul

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.
Science

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and organelles in yellow-green).
Science

Bioengineers made mutant, solar-powered hamster cells

By Andrew Paul