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Watch these rare ocean creatures caught on candid robot camera
The barreleye fish is the living version of the galaxy-brain meme. MBARI Is there anything dreamier than a giant phantom jelly billowing in the midst of a deep-sea “snowstorm” ? Depends on personal...
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How to escape the wasteful excess of CVS receipts
Do yourself (and the environment) a favor. Nomadsoul1 / Deposit Photos Nothing is more soul-crushing than an endless trail of receipts after a shopping trip. Except when you have a CVS ExtraCare...
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17 images to count down to the James Webb Space Telescope launch
What the James Webb Space Telescope should look like when it finally unfurls beyond the Earth's atmosphere. Adriana Manrique Gutierrez/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CIL When the US, Europe, and...
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AI turned a Rembrandt masterpiece into 5.6 terabytes of data
The restored version of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" is now viewable online on a .0005-millimeter scale. The Rijksmuseum What’s better than enjoying an ingenious piece of art in person? Seeing it at...
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Here’s what the CDC is now saying about masks and respirators
N95s and KN95s—known as respirators—are the way to go now, unless you have a specific disability. Look for ones with horizontal, not vertical folds and head bands instead of ear loops. Surgical masks...
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Even blue whales aren’t safe from orcas
Orca whales off Western Australia were seen to get in formation to bite, ram, and drown blue whales to death. Deposit Photos Orca whales are known to be powerful predators, but the ones off the coast...
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There’s a better way to use rock salt on snow
The point of rock salt and other deicers is to free up the ice from your driveway or walk, not to melt it down. Deposit Photos Whenever snow hits the pavement in the US, we throw salt on it. The...
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Happy Mars-iversary, Perseverance
Huzzah! Perseverance has made it through one Earth year on the Red Planet. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Perseverance has officially survived a year on Mars. And what a year it’s been, filled with first...
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See Hubble’s captures of real-life star wars
Hubble's capture of the "Tumultuous Galactic Trio." The center of the image is obscured by a thick cloud of dust—though light from a background galaxy can be seen piercing the merger's outer...
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The CDC is relaxing indoor mask guidelines and shaking up how it measures...
Even as indoor mask guidelines relax in many places, some businesses might require masking for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated customers. Deposit Photos Now that every US state minus Hawaii has set...
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In pictures: NASA’s powerful moonshot rocket debuts at Kennedy Space Center
More than 10 years in the making, NASA's Space Launch System rocket is finally feeling out a launch pad for the first time to prepare for the Artemis I uncrewed mission. NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA’s most...
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Meet the ancient owl that embraced daylight
Miosurnia diurna, an extinct owl found in a Chinese fossil formation, probably looked similar to some of the diurnal owls today. Zheng Qiuyang Not every owl is a night owl. Of the 200-plus owl species...
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This glittery squid can change color in an instant
Bigfin reef squid, also know as white-squid or oval squid, use microscopic pigment factories in their skin to match different undersea substrates. Deposit Photos Now you see it—and now you see it a...
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Don’t miss this weekend’s total lunar eclipse
A total lunar eclipse and blood moon photographed in Germany in 2018. Claudio Testa/Unsplash Lunar phases come and go, but the one passing through Earth’s shadow this weekend will take its time in the...
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The best time to donate blood for a disaster is before it happens
Community member Bobby Kramer waits his turn to donate blood at the South Texas Blood Bank's emergency drive on May 25, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images In the wake of mass casualty...
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The James Webb Space Telescope survived its first collision
The James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments went through rigorous testing and inspection prior to launch last December. Chris Gunn/NASA As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) pushes to...
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Popping a champagne cork creates supersonic shockwaves
Every time you pop a champagne bottle, you're launching a small, but powerful weapon. Deposit Photos Since Europeans started drinking it during the Renaissance, champagne (or sparkling wine, if it’s...
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See the stars from the Milky Way mapped as a dazzling rainbow
This is Gaia's third big data delivery since it launched in 2013. Spacecraft: ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho. When you see a distant star in...
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How many hot dogs would it take to kill you?
If you're going for quality, condiments and veggies are a plus. If you're going for quantity, streamline that hot dog. Deposit Photos Everyone wants to know the mostest hot dogs you can eat, but no...
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Will digital dollars ever replace hard currency in the US?
Audrey Malo ON ANY GIVEN WEEKDAY, the United States Mint can churn out almost 126.4 million pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, 50-cent pieces, and gold dollars from its presses in Denver and...
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Could dragons be real? Not in the way we think.
The Gila monster's raised scales give it an armored appearance, not unlike a dragon's. And then there's that valuable venom. Deposit Photos When it comes to dragons, the human imagination has been...
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4 of the most extreme amusement park rides on the planet
Meryl Rowin WHEN ACTION PARK first opened its gates on a New Jersey ski mountain in 1978, people probably showed up expecting run-of-the-mill amusements: go-karts, a lazy river, maybe a casual wave...
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Should pets wear Halloween costumes? Your furry friend can help you decide.
This Frenchie would rather spend Halloween chewing on a Kong toy on the couch. Deposit Photos Halloween means ghosts, dog-lins, skeletons, meow-nsters, and hungry bats. But for your animals at home,...
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10 incredible lunar missions that paved the way for Artemis
Astronaut David R. Scott, commander, is seated in the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the Apollo 15 mission. NASA/JSC With Artemis I now well underway, NASA is ready to dive into lunar exploration like...
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Orion will air kiss the moon today during important Artemis exercise
See you on the far side of the moon. NASA The Orion spacecraft is set to make its closest approach to the moon today, passing behind the orb for a little more than 30 minutes before skimming 80 or so...
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Young star clusters know when it’s time to stop growing
RCW 36, a new star cluster and gas cloud located in the Milky Way, seen in X-ray and infrared. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Ames Research Center/L. Bonne et al.; Infrared: ESA/NASA.JPL-Caltech/Herschel Space...
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The most powerful health innovations of 2022
It's the Best of What's New. STAAR Surgical Almost three years into the pandemic, the spotlight isn’t just on COVID medicine anymore. While booster shots and take-home antiviral pills gave us new...
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You saw the first image of a black hole. Now see it better with AI.
AI, enhance. Medeiros et al., 2023 Astronomy sheds light on the far-off, intangible phenomena that shape our universe and everything outside it. Artificial intelligence sifts through tiny, mundane...
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What science says about popular pre-workout ingredients
If you don't trust the label on your pre-workout, make your own. Julia Bernhard DO YOU HAVE a big tub of pre-workout powder sitting close by? Look at the label. How many ingredients do you recognize?...
View ArticleJWST’s latest snap captures the glimmering antics of the Cartwheel Galaxy
Galaxies don’t stay static: They twirl, shapeshift, and erupt into novas and kilanovas. That means every time we view a star system, whether it’s 13.5 billion light-years away like HD1 or our home...
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With Artemis 1 launched, NASA is officially on its way back to the moon
After a two-and-a-half month delay, NASA’s Artemis I mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center today at 1:48 am EST. The launch ushers in a new era of human space exploration on the moon. The...
View ArticleA quick look at Biden’s new COVID preparedness plan
On the heels of a major update to COVID mask guidelines and risk measures across the country, the US government released a centralized pandemic approach that focuses on lifting bans, ending shutdowns,...
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See how the US’s busiest commercial seaport tackles supply chain bottlenecks
EACH DAY, some 59 million parcels land on doorsteps and porches and in package rooms across the US. To manage the rising number of e-commerce orders, which amount to almost $1 trillion a year,...
View ArticleWe’ve lost more than 1 million Americans to COVID
Almost two years and two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) called COVID a pandemic, the US officially passed the 1 million death toll for the virus. It is now well beyond any other...
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Meet the first 4 astronauts of the ‘Artemis Generation’
Years after Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan returned from NASA’s last crewed mission to the moon, he still felt the massive weight of the milestone. “I realize that other people look at me...
View ArticleJames Webb Space Telescope captures the beauty of a rare, violent phenomena
In the grand scheme of the universe and its stars, our sun isn’t all that powerful or special. While its death will certainly wreak havoc on the solar system, it isn’t big enough to trigger a...
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See the first video of solitary solid atoms playing with liquid
It’s summer, it’s hot, and these atoms are going for a swim. For the first time ever, materials scientists recorded individual solid atoms moving through a liquid solution. A team of engineers from...
View ArticleHurricane Ian surges back and heads for the Carolinas
After pummeling the southeast coast of Florida at a maximum of 150 mph sustained winds, Hurricane Ian is working its way up the Atlantic and showing signs of a resurgence. The record-setting storm is...
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What do you call a tiny tarantula killer? Jeff Daniels.
Like many wormy discoveries, this one started with murder. In 2019, a parasitology lab at the University of California, Riverside, was tipped off by a breeder whose tarantulas were ravaged by a...
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We finally know why Venus is absolutely radiant
Venus is known as a beautiful and brilliant planet. But, until recently, we hadn’t even seen it in the right light. Back in July 2020, the Parker Solar Probe snapped the first-ever images of the...
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Buzz Aldrin is auctioning off rare pieces of US space history
At 92 years old, Buzz Aldrin has lived a full life. He graduated third in his class from the US Military Academy, earned a PhD in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and...
View ArticlePopSci has been making it work for 150 years—and we’re not stopping now
Last year, Popular Science celebrated 150 years with an abundance of pomp and circumstance. We paid homage to our founders, poked fun at zany old experiments, corrected the record, and nerded the heck...
View ArticleWhat is a ‘Martian flower’?
As the Curiosity rover continues its decade-long journey across Mars’s Gale Crater, it’s finding a trove of curiosities on the planet’s igneous rock face. In a image taken on February 24, Curiosity...
View Article988, the shortened National Suicide Prevention Hotline number, is live
After nearly three years of planning, the shortcut for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, 988, is going live on every landline, smartphone, and online dial pad in the US. First recommended by...
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Look up at the sky to see a parade of perfectly aligned planets
If you’re up before dawn on a clear day this summer, check the skies first. Aside from the usual pinpricks of stars, you should find “a parade of planets” tracking the eastern horizon. Mercury, barely...
View Article5 sounds not meant for the human ear
HUMAN HEARING has its limits. Frequencies as high as 20,000 hertz (think of an anti-loitering alarm) can cause a pair of young ears to perk up. Any vibes above that fall into the range of ultrasound,...
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This rainbow reef fish is just as magical as it looks
With a color palette brighter than a bag of Skittles, you’d think the rose-veiled fairy wrasse would have no trouble standing out. But in the teeming waters of the Indian Ocean, it’s easy for a fish...
View ArticleA mysterious liver disease is sickening kids in the US and Europe
On April 15, the World Health Organization (WHO) posted an emergency disease outbreak alert that was not strictly about the COVID pandemic. Over the course of the past two weeks, the medical arm of...
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The biggest particle collider in the world gets back to work
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and a pivotal tool in high-energy physics discoveries, roared back to life on April 22 after going on hiatus in December...
View ArticleQuantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments
After awarding three climate change modelers with the physics prize last year, the Nobel Committee recognized another trio of theorists in the field this year. Earlier today, it announced John F....
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