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An image of the Sun from June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT.
Science

Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?

By Harri Weber

a molting penguin with a mixture of feathers
Environment

Famously extra large penguin Pesto is molting

By Laura Baisas

a female mountain lion walks at night with some kittens behind her
Environment

Mountain lions in Los Angeles become night owls to avoid humans

By Laura Baisas

a small bird with black, gray, and white, plumage solves a puzzle in a lab
Environment

Immigrating great tits learn from their new neighbors

By Laura Baisas

Ripe tomatoes on green garden.
Science

They CRISPR’ed tomatoes to make them sweet and large

By Andrew Paul

Lafayette-Meteorite
Science

Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

By Andrew Paul

A diver from National Geographic Pristine Seas measures the world’s largest coral colony in the Solomon Islands.
Environment

World’s largest coral discovered and it’s longer than a blue whale

By Laura Baisas

a colorful coral reef with fish swimming above it
Environment

Chlorine and cocoa butter may help disease-ridden corals

By Laura Baisas

Professor Jade Morton (co-author) posing with a phone and a monitoring station at the University of Colorado, Boulder. A monitoring station has a large and expensive antenna. Phones have smaller antennas, which leads to noisier measurements, but phones are present in more parts of the world.
Technology

Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS

By Mack DeGeurin

x-ray scans of early human skulls. the teeth are colored red, green, orange, blue, and purple to show the differences among them
Science

These 1.77-million-year-old teeth could help demystify human childhoods

By Laura Baisas

Beluga Whale or White Whale, delphinapterus leucas, Adult
Science

Russian ‘spy whale’ was actually an aquatic guard turned ‘hooligan’

By Andrew Paul

young woman in bed with alarm clock and eyes opened suffering insomnia and sleep disorder thinking about his problem on dark studio lighting in sleeping and nightmare issues
Science

What causes you to jolt awake right before falling asleep?

By Andrew Paul

a small baby gibbon with large eyes sits on its mother
Environment

Endangered newborn siamang gibbon is a ‘sign of hope’

By Laura Baisas

a new mollusc with a hood over its head
Science

New deep-sea slug catches crustaceans like a Venus fly trap

By Laura Baisas

da Vinci Surgical System practicing sutures on pork loin
Technology

Watch a robot operate on a pork loin

By Andrew Paul

Close up of blooming corpse flower
Environment

Scientists crack the mystery of why the corpse flower smells like death

By Andrew Paul

forest
Environment

How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone.

By Matt Simon / Grist

man holds camcorder
Technology

The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible

By Popular Science Team

a person performs CPR
Health

Bystander CPR done within 10 minutes likely increases survival rates

By Laura Baisas

closeup of eyeball
Health

Why your computer screen hurts your eyes (and how to help)

By John Alexander