The infrastructure bill, expected to be signed into law on Monday, includes very big news for broadband internet access in the United States. | Continue reading
Juno, which launched into orbit in 2011, is giving researchers a glimpse of what lies beneath the surface of the planet’s great storm. | Continue reading
How Clostridium, a nasty pathogen, makes an infectiously delicious confection | Continue reading
With up to four players and dozens of officially licensed classic games, the Evercade VS looks like lots of fun. | Continue reading
Science reporting is complex, which means it can be easily faked. Know what to look for and you won't get fooled. | Continue reading
Physicists still don't understand what happened in the instant after the Big Bang and a leading theory continues to be called into question. | Continue reading
Lighting can change how a person feels about a space, so use these lighting tricks to make small rooms look bigger than they actually are. | Continue reading
You might expect to find our brightest hope for sending astronauts to other planets in Houston, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, inside a high-security multibillion-dollar facility. But it's actually a few miles down the street, in a large warehouse behind a strip mall. This bland … | Continue reading
So many container ships are trying to make it to port, some of them are just drifting due to a dearth of anchorages. Here's why. | Continue reading
When Pete Conrad couldn't take Gemini 11 to the Moon, he did the next best thing and took it into an 850-mile high Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Science headlines sound too good to be true? Here’s how to evaluate those studies. | Continue reading
The cost of renewable energy, and solar in particular, has plummeted in the last decade. So why has there not been a green revolution? | Continue reading
The latest nuclear fusion experiment from the US National Ignition Lab is a promising development in the quest for cleaner energy. | Continue reading
Moderna is about to begin human trials for an HIV vaccine based on the same technology used in its COVID-19 vaccine. | Continue reading
The car’s cellular radio downloads real-time updates on the status of nearby traffic lights, supplied by participating local traffic control centers. | Continue reading
Last week, a young woman with sickle cell anemia became the first person in the United States to have her cells altered with CRISPR gene editing technology. Here's what that means for the future treatment of genetic diseases. | Continue reading
Ed Note: In 2005 Dan Koeppel traveled to Central America to begin his research on the banana—a fruit whose ubiquity, he discovered, may very well prove to be its downfall. His book, 'Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World,' was recently published to much acclaim. He … | Continue reading
By combining two materials, researchers have made a solid that conducts heat like a gas. A new material that’s among the world's worst heat conductors could make a superb insulator | Continue reading
“Put power lines underground!” is a common hurricane season rallying cry. So why don’t we do it? | Continue reading
For decades, planetary science has focused mainly on Mars. A dedicated contingent of Venusophiles, however, never lost sight our Earth's other neighbor. | Continue reading
A slowed-down economy could help the planet—and the people living on it. | Continue reading
It’s at least as terrifying as it sounds. How wildfires can help create thunder and lightning. | Continue reading
A team of Japanese researchers has found a way to add a version of aluminum to the glass using a new production method, according to a study published last month in Scientific Reports. | Continue reading
Humans may have arrived in the Americas as early as 30,000 years ago, pushing back the date we thought the first inhabitants arrived. | Continue reading
Popular Science received an exclusive first look at a UN Institute Report exploring the ways that machines could make mistakes in combat. | Continue reading
The reservoirs created by dams were thought to store carbon—it turns out they may actually release twice as much as they stash away. | Continue reading
While most people think of Italy as the pasta capital of the world, the Western staple has a long history in Asia. Here's how the global dominance of noodles unfolded. | Continue reading
The harms outweigh the benefits of declawing a cat. Instead, try a little cat training to save your furniture from scratches. | Continue reading
It's likely not lens distortion that caused the curious appearance. Instead, it's something called perspective distortion. | Continue reading
Your cells are ready to run a marathon, even if you’re not. Every cell in the human body is carrying a mutation that might help optimize our muscles for running long distances, according to some recent research. | Continue reading
Some 40 years after it left Earth, Voyager 1 is still surprising scientists with the data it transmits home. But its days are numbered. | Continue reading
How can you tell when your laptop is fighting a virus or dealing with hard drive failure? Look out for these bright red flags. | Continue reading
A lunar rainbow is a hard-to-see phenomenon in which sunlight reflecting off the moon is filtered through water droplets in the air. | Continue reading
A biotech company has added female-killing gene to Aedes aegypti, but it may or may not work for disease control in the wild. | Continue reading
If you care about privacy, you should get a burner phone number for certain situations. You don't need a second device—there are apps that will do the job. | Continue reading
Lampreys have long been thought to be the earliest vertebrates. But new fossils of hatchling lampreys suggest that theory is completely wrong. | Continue reading
The idea of a carbon coin, from Kim Stanley Robinson's book Ministry for the Future, is based on real research that suggests a carbon-based currency could actually help save the planet. | Continue reading
The latest COVID vaccine to show high effectiveness rates works a little differently from either of the currently approved vaccines in the US. | Continue reading
If a fighter pilot doesn't correctly manage the G-forces they experience, they can pass out. Ground-collision avoidance software has now saved 11 lives. | Continue reading
The recent cold snap in Texas and other southern states has sparked interest in what exactly is causing all this extreme weather. | Continue reading
Two aircraft are competing to be the Army’s next Black-Hawk-type helicopter. Here’s what we know about one of them. | Continue reading
What’s great about these mittens is that no matter what kind of yarn you have or the size of your hands, you can adapt them to fit your needs and supplies. | Continue reading
Radical political views of all sorts seem to shape our lives to an almost unprecedented extent. But what attracts people to the fringes? | Continue reading
Scientists identified a previously unknown form of movement that the brown tree snakes used to shape their bodies into “lassoes" and pull themselves up the wide metal barriers. | Continue reading
Razer's super-fancy Project Brooklyn gaming chair may never hit the market, but we can dream. | Continue reading
In January 1967, an A-12, then a secret CIA spyplane, crashed in the Nevada desert outside Area 51. Decades later, one amateur explorer made it his mission to find it. | Continue reading
Frankincense and myrrh are both tree resins. In their time, they were worth as much as gold, and fought over like oil today. Despite thousands of years of use, the family of plants still holds many mysteries. | Continue reading
NASA’s live broadcast of Apollo 11’s landing was nearly a decade in the making, and required some stunning feats of engineering. | Continue reading