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iRobot Roomba Q011 in a tiled configuration.
Gear

Get a Roomba for just $140 with this early Amazon Prime Big Deal Days deal

By Brandt Ranj

Ginseng root
Environment

How the Forest Service is trying to save Appalachian ginseng

By Katie Myers/Grist

a penguin looks at the camera while swimming in icy waters
Environment

14 soaring and stunning images from 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

illustration of kaspar hauser
Science

The most famous mystery science might never solve

By Popular Science Team

Young Cuckoo, Canorus cuculus, in Reed Warblers nest in reedbed, Norfolk UK.
Environment

Are you my baby? The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds

By Sofia Quaglia / Knowable Magazine

a phone with chat gpt open on it
DIY

ChatGPT remembers things about you now. But you can switch its memory off.

By David Nield

This picture shows many tiny cells in which DNA is abundantly included inside the cells.
Environment

Oldest living microbes found in 2-billion-year-old rock

By Andrew Paul

Side by side of nature camera and brown bear
Environment

How the Fat Bear Week crew gets that beautiful bear footage

By Andrew Paul

the profile view of a gecko with white scales, bright orange spots, and a large yellow eye
Environment

Geckos have a ‘sixth sense’

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground
Environment

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a grayish brown wombat walking next to shrubs
Environment

Can wombats kill with their butts? We found the hard truth.

By Laura Baisas

choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa
Environment

We are family: Tracing the evolution of animals

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

USS Stewart bow shipwreck with barnacles and crabs
Technology

‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ rediscovered with underwater drones

By Andrew Paul

hearing voices
Health

The ‘voices’ that people with schizophrenia hear could be echoes of their own vocalizations

By Tom Hawking

Illustration of the global coronal magnetic field as the sun rotates. The background is the solar corona observed in extreme-ultraviolet waveband, with global coronal magnetic field maps measured at different time overlapped on top of it.
Science

The sun’s magnetic field is where the ‘stuff’ is. It can be dangerous.

By Laura Baisas

Cybertruck in showroom
Technology

Recalled Cybertruck rearview camera was so slow it was illegal

By Andrew Paul

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling
Technology

I spoke to a 60-year-old AI version of myself and it was…. unsettling

By Mack DeGeurin

a microscope image of a small crustacean with a round body, two large antennae come from its head, and several small legs
Environment

Sorry, zooplankton don’t want to eat your poop

By Laura Baisas

Vaquita
Environment

The poachers who could save Mexico’s vaquita

By Daniel Shailer / Hakai Magazine

Voyager 2 diagram with equipment labeled
Science

NASA shut off a Voyager 2 tool to save power

By Andrew Paul

The best PFAS-free cookware of 2024 on a plain white background.
Gear

The best PFAS-free cookware for 2024, tested and reviewed

By Brandt Ranj

a dolphin in a tank with an open mouth
Environment

Bottlenose dolphins ‘smile’ to say it’s time to play

By Laura Baisas

3D rendering of all ~140k neurons in the fruit fly brain.
Environment

Scientists mapped every neuron of an adult animal’s brain for the first time

By Tom Hawking

Lightning strike at night
Environment

NASA’s U-2 spy plane found gamma rays in 90% of lightning storms

By Andrew Paul

In the 1950s, transistor technology allowed smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard.
Technology

Congress is trying to force carmakers to keep AM radio

By Matthew Jordan / The Conversation

JUICE image of Earth's radiation belt
Science

NASA captured the clearest ever images of Earth’s radiation belt

By Andrew Paul

Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat's malleable wings.
Technology

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

By Mack DeGeurin

Montana Mountain King sheep
Environment

Montana breeder of illegal, giant sheep hybrid clones gets 6 months in prison

By Andrew Paul

People who work around dry, dusty conditions are at a higher risk of contracting valley fever.
Environment

Epidemiologists explain how to protect yourself from valley fever

By Jennifer Head, et al / The Conversation

an illustration of an orange dot orbiting a larger orangish body in space
Science

Astronomers discover a new exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to the sun

By Laura Baisas

a green supercar covered in dirt
Technology

3 ultra-rare Lamborghini Miuras unearthed at junkyard. They could sell for millions.

By Kristin Shaw

screenshot on an iphone of apple asking 'how do you want to add contacts' option in ios18
DIY

Stop iPhone apps from accessing all your contacts in iOS 18

By David Nield

Chinese lunar spacesuit
Science

China debuts its moon mission spacesuits

By Andrew Paul

Group of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on haulout, Vaygach island, Barents sea
Science

Walrus DNA suggests meetings between Vikings and Indigenous Inuit

By Andrew Paul

woman riding a motorcycle in a green field
Technology

Can-Am’s first motorcycles in decades set the (handle)bar high for e-motorbikes

By Kristin Shaw

mount everest with a wide river below
Science

Mount Everest is still growing taller

By Laura Baisas

Tesla electric Cybertruck parked in the shopping plaza. Front view.
Technology

$8,000 ‘Full Self-Driving Mode’ is finally in select Cybertrucks

By Andrew Paul

a person holding an iphone taking a photo of the arc de triomphe in paris
DIY

7 helpful iPhone features to use on your next vacation

By David Nield

a bright green meteor streaks across the sky over cliffs
Science

October’s skies bring an oddball meteor and a shiny new comet–if you’re lucky

By Laura Baisas

Artwork of cubesats in the sky.
Technology

CubeSats, the tiniest of satellites, are changing the way we explore the solar system

By Mustafa Aksoy / The Conversation

the moment a jaguar delivers a fatal bite to the head of a caiman in a muddy river. 
Environment

11 unforgettable scenes from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards

By Popular Science Team

Hummingbirds draw the eye with their bright colors and busy, hovering flight. Biologists are drawn to understand the suite of adaptations they have evolved to survive extreme lifestyles.
Science

Hummingbirds thrive on an extreme lifestyle. Here’s how.

By Bob Holmes / Knowable Magazine

variety of phones
DIY

6 iOS 18 settings you might want to change ASAP

By David Nield

Dataset relating to "Corpus: Omens and Portents"
Technology

Do AI-generated images have the capacity to further estrange, if not profoundly alienate, us from the world?

By Anthony Downey / MIT Press Reader

a woman with blonde hair that floats near a window overlooking earth from above
Science

Polaris Dawn crew shares stunning new images from historic space mission

By Popular Science Team

NASA astronaut Andre Douglas raises an American flag as NASA astronaut Kate Rubins looks on during their first simulated moonwalk in a week-long field test consisting of four simulated moonwalks and six advanced technology runs in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 13, 202
Science

At Earth’s most extreme locales, astronauts find ideal places to prep for space

By Briley Lewis

Popular Science, December 1943
Science

In 1928, the discovery of ‘mold juice’ would go on to save 500 million lives

By Bill Gourgey

Monarch butterfly feeding on purple aster flower in summer floral background.
DIY

How to plant a garden butterflies will love

By Debbie Wolfe

Two Fingered Sloth close-up
Environment

Sloths may be in danger by the end of the century

By Andrew Paul

poppy seed bagel
Science

What causes positive drug tests? It’s not just drugs… or poppy seeds.

By Lauren Leffer

This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845. For Franklin’s last journey she had been fitted with a steam engine and a screw propeller and was accompanied by HMS ‘Terror’. In 1848 both vessels were abandoned in the ice.
Science

Crew of ill-fated Franklin Expedition cannibalized their commander, archeologists prove

By Andrew Paul

a condor, a large bird with black plumage, stands near a creek
Environment

4 endangered California condors will be released into the wild

By Laura Baisas

Artist concept: The LSST will carry out a deep, ten-year imaging survey in six broad optical bands over the main survey area of 18,000 square degrees.
Science

How AI’s data-crunching-power can help demystify the cosmos

By Briley Lewis

A cell undergoing apoptosis is seen in the center of the image surrounded by other normal cells.Shaded Lighter.
Science

Your cells are dying. All the time.

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Satellite image of Hurricane Helene
Environment

What Hurricane Helene looks like from space

By Andrew Paul

Concept art of USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle on neighborhood street
Technology

USPS explains chunky bumpers on new duck-shaped trucks

By Andrew Paul

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 SCOTT FRIER Ocean Shores United States Title: Nagging is a Universal Concept Description: I liked this image as It reminds me of the old TV commercial for Maxell audio cassette tapes called: "Blown Away Guy". On safari in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania we hung around a Kopji of rocks because there were lion cubs being nursed when this action happened. I was just lucky enough to catch it. I have this image printed and hung on a wall of my home, everybody who sees it laughs at it. One of those people mentioned that I should entered it in this contest so here it is. Animal: Lion & Lioness Location of shot: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Environment

24 silly wildlife photos to brighten your day

By Popular Science Team

electric scooter
Technology

E-bike and scooter injuries are up 293%

By Mack DeGeurin

Group of Snow Geese in elegant flight against blue sky at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge in New Mexico in winter.
Environment

Why do birds migrate? Scientists have a few major theories.

By Lauren Leffer

a sea robin fish with wide pectoral fins and six crab-like legs
Environment

This fish has 6 legs that act like tongues

By Laura Baisas

Hybrid potatoes created by the biotechnology company Solynta, grown and recently harvested in Kenya.
Environment

How crop science is transforming the humble potato

By Martin Enserink / Undark

an iphone screen open on a mac
DIY

How to mirror your iPhone on your Mac

By David Nield

a platypus floating in a creek on the Eungella National Park , Queensland, Australia
Technology

Platypus-like robot skin inspired by scientist’s daughter

By Andrew Paul

Nissan alerts
Technology

Nissan cars will yell at you for hogging the fast lane

By Mack DeGeurin