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Popular Scienceby Mack DeGeurin26d ago
As residents on the northern Gulf Coast brace for quickly strengthening Hurricane Isaias (a Category 3 storm as of Friday afternoon), many are likely eyeing their roofs and walls with nervous...
Popular Scienceby Tony Ware26d ago
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Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul26d ago
A teenage hiker in Canada recently became another cautionary tale about the perils of overtrusting artificial intelligence.
Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul26d ago
Bitemarks on the fossilized jaw of a tyrannosaur called Albertosaurus appear to illustrate the first known example of scavenging raptors feasting on a much larger dinosaur The prehistoric snack...
Popular Scienceby Margherita Bassi26d ago
Squid skin behaves a bit like a large, 10-armed human ear. While scientists at Case Western Reserve University were probing these enigmatic cephalopods, they discovered that squid have...
Popular Scienceby Shoshi Parks27d ago
Typical brains function smoothly, with neurons (nerve cells) firing rhythmically like predictable weather patterns. But in epileptic brains, a sunny day can suddenly turn dark and stormy.
Popular Scienceby Laura Baisas27d ago
As Joanthan the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) approaches his 195th birthday this December, there is some good news for his fellow tortoises.
Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul27d ago
Mosasaurs are terrifying enough based on their fossils alone. The Cretaceous marine reptile family encompassed some of the undisputed apex predators of Earth’s ancient oceans (and possibly even...
Popular Scienceby Tony Ware27d ago
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Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul27d ago
Successfully sending Artemis II astronauts on their historic lunar flyby earlier this year required some of the latest and most precise technologies, but not everything in this mission needed the...
Popular Scienceby Stan Horaczek27d ago
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Popular Scienceby Mack DeGeurin27d ago
Just over 40 years ago, what began as a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (or Chornobyl in Ukranian) in Soviet Ukraine spiraled into one of the most recognizable disasters of...
Popular Scienceby Andrew Paul27d ago
A 2,000-year-old marble sculpture slated for auction later this month is more than a well-preserved piece of artistic history.
Popular Scienceby Laura Baisas27d ago
A rare Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) is recovering after being found struggling in the surf on a Maine beach.
Popular Scienceby Stan Horaczek27d ago
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Popular Scienceby Laura Kiniry28d ago
Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands are home to an incredible array of wildlife. Amid landscapes of black lava fields, scattered prickly pear cacti, lush highlands, and green mangrove fringes, you’ll spot...
Popular Scienceby Popular Science Team28d ago
During the still night above California’s Big Bear Valley, a meteor recently soared across the sky.
Popular Scienceby Mack DeGeurin28d ago
Timekeeping has officially entered its nuclear age. Two independent teams, one in Vienna, Austria and another in Beijing, China have built working thorium-229 nuclear clock prototypes.
Popular Scienceby Laura Baisas28d ago
She’s bubblegum pink with a permanent little smile. She sports a pretty flower on her head sports a black tattoo on one of her eight arms.
Popular Scienceby Laura Baisas28d ago
He lived at the same time as Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria, and President Andrew Jackson. He’s a gay icon, who was alive before Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb.
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