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Science

NASA’s rocket engine fireplace sets the holiday mood

By Popular Science Team

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Gear

Save 67% off an Ancestry test kit at Amazon for Cyber Monday then blame all your flaws on your DNA

By Amanda Reed

Uranium incorporated for color causes fluorescence under ultraviolet light. A wildflower pattern adorns this 19th century glass bowl. The other bowls are blue, amber, and clear. Centreville, Maryland, USA.
Science

The weird history of our dangerous relationship with uranium

By Lucy Jane Santos

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Science

December’s skies illuminate with the Seven Sisters and Cold Moon

By Laura Baisas

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Science

The man who lived with no brain

By Popular Science Team

an orca whale dorsal fin coming out of the water
Environment

Orcas observed preying on massive whale sharks

By Laura Baisas

Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel in grass, Leelanau State Park, Michigan.
Environment

How hibernating squirrels go more than six months without water—and don’t get thirsty

By Lauren Leffer

a photo from the movie "moana 2." a whale shark swims by a group of voyagers on the ocean
Science

‘We know the way’: How Polynesian voyagers navigate Earth’s biggest ocean

By Laura Baisas

Micro-CT scans of bone needle and needle specimens and the species they were compared with.
Science

Ice age humans made needles from animal bones, archeologists discover

By Laura Baisas

a long piece of fossilized dinosaur poop on the ground
Science

200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world

By Laura Baisas

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Science

Diamond optical discs could store data for millions of years

By Andrew Paul

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Science

Are ‘heavy metals’ dangerous? Yes, but not everything you’ve heard is true.

By Lauren Leffer

A new study suggests that great apes (specifically gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) seem to track events in the way that we do.
Environment

Great apes may have cognitive foundations for language

By Tom Hawking

Peach and Blossom, the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, are seen on the South Lawn of the White House before recieving a Presidential Pardon from US President Joe Biden in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2024.
Science

How did Thanksgiving turkeys get so darn big?

By Mack DeGeurin

An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole. The oval, an area of concentrated haze, is possibly the result of mixing generated by a vortex higher up in the planet's ionosphere. These dark UV ovals also appear periodically at the north pole, though less often.
Science

Great Red What? Check out Jupiter’s giant, magnetic tornado

By Laura Baisas

Bronze cannon linked to Coronado expedition next to ruler for scale
Science

The oldest known firearm in the U.S. unearthed in Arizona

By Andrew Paul

a more colorful dominant male fish next to a more muted subordinate fish
Environment

Stress is warping these fish brains

By Laura Baisas

A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 32 feet away from the mother plant.
Science

High-speed camera catches cucumber squirting seeds at 65 feet-per-second

By Laura Baisas

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it
Technology

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

By Andrew Paul

Focaccia baked in kiln
Science

Focaccia likely originated in Mesopotamia, not Rome

By Andrew Paul