Scrapes on the ground and rubs on trees radiate a glow under ultraviolet light. Chamberlain Smith Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Animals see the world around them in ways that we humans can only imagine. Arctic reindeer’s eyes changeContinue Reading
Depiction of the fourth horseman of the apocalypse, Death, riding a mythical creature, presumably a winged lion. The depiction was created in Erfurt in the mid-14th century. Credit: Klassik-Stiftung Weimar Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Black Death (YersiniaContinue Reading
The shipwreck is located off the coast of Copenhagen and is one of the most well-preserved ever found. Credit: Andreas Binder Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists in Denmark say a sunken Viking ship near Copenhagen is the largest boat ofContinue Reading
Warner Bros. Who could forget Cypher, Joe Pantoliano’s sneaky, backstabbing jerk in the Wachowski sisters’ “The Matrix”? The actor was made for playing villains like this (in addition to portraying hot-headed, domineering characters like Ralph Cifaretto in “The Sopranos,” which fans consider one of the best TV shows of theContinue Reading
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres — worlds beyond our solar system — and their stars. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab) SpaceX will launch NASA’s next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you canContinue Reading
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Iceberg A-23A broke off of Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf 40 years ago. NASA Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Iceberg A-23A is looking a little blue these days. In late December 2025, NASA and NOAA’s Terra satellite spotted the massive iceberg coveredContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Manicured orchard rows fan out before me, branches heavy with picture-book apples in glistening lipstick red. Between the succession of trunks, tufts of grass are tickled by breeze; in the sky above, clouds drift by lazily. Green and pleasant, this scene couldContinue Reading
Children undergoing immunotherapy for peanut allergies may achieve the same results with a lower dose. According to new research from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Montreal Children’s Hospital, a smaller dose of peanut oral immunotherapy (OIT) can offer fewer side effects than the current standard treatment while stillContinue Reading
Microwave Vacuum Drying uses a lower heat than traditional cooking methods to preserve the food’s nutrients. Credit: Cornell University Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It’s hard to stop after eating a single potato chip—and that’s kind of their whole problem. TheContinue Reading
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