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Google researchers have come up with a way to judge websites by their factual accuracy instead of just their popularity.

When NASA’s Dawn mission gets to Ceres on March 6, it’ll be our first up-close look at a dwarf planet. The spacecraft will spend the next year or so orbiting this big rock,…

Traumatic injuries, like falls or car crashes, can cause the victim to lose a lot of blood very quickly. The result is thousands of preventable deaths per year, especially…

Offshore wind farms in the United States are the new flying car. We keep saying that it's just around the corner but somehow practical results never manifest. Europe has…

You’ve said it. I’ve said it. “I’ll just have one more bite.” Then, half a cheesecake later, we were both liars. A new smart necklace aims to rid us of our eating sins by…

Fumbling for a cell phone that rang during a meeting can be pretty embarrassing, and tapping out an email on a smartwatch is always a frustrating experience. To make mobile…

Physicians and video game developers have teamed up to help treat a common ocular condition.

Animals help people heal. They reduce loneliness, depression, and anxiety. They can improve our heart health and get us to exercise more. That's why many hospitals and…

An international team of astronomers have taken a look at one of the youngest, most remote galaxies, and found something surprising.

Hydrophobic clothing that won’t stain when you spill something on yourself is the dream of clumsy people everywhere, but the materials that are commercially available…

Carbon dioxide emissions make the big headlines in climate change news, and with good reason--we've now seen the impact of carbon dioxide on global temperature. But carbon…

What the world needs most are more things that explode in more ways. A team of researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, as well as one with…

Escherichia coli (E. coli) has a bad reputation as the cause of particularly disgusting food poisoning incidents and other illnesses. But not all types of E. coli are…

There are gadgets to measure everything, from what we eat to how many steps we take—and now, a new breed of devices claims to monitor stress. I tested three over the course…

Neil Blomkamp’s new film CHAPPiE, which hits U.S. theaters this weekend, follows the unlikely transformation of a defective robot into a one-of-a-kind conscious machine.

Peeing in public is the worst. And unfortunately, in major cities with any kind of nightlife, the stench of stale urine on the street is an incredibly annoying and disgusting part of life. But residents of Hamburg, Germany's bustling St. Pauli neighborhood figured out a solution. They located some of the areas that late night revelers frequently turned into impromptu urinals, and painted them with hydrophobic paint. Because the paint repels liquids, the pee splashes back on the pee-er in what must be one of the fastest iterations of karmic justice ever seen. Here at Popular Science we've…

About 9.3 billion years ago, a supernova exploded in our universe. Since then, its light has been traveling the billions of light years it takes to get to our little planet…

At 7:39 EST this morning, the dwarf planet Ceres captured the Dawn spacecraft in its gravity. After a journey of more than seven years, the spacecraft will spend the next…

Moving an army is no easy task, and it’s even harder when that army wants to travel by air. Working with NASA and the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army is developing a new fleet of…

Over the past 20 years or so, traffic on the world’s oceans has quadrupled. Ships now carry 95 percent of the cargo imported to American shores. To move those goods more…

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