Trim wants to save you money—and potentially hours of despair
Trim's new chatbot will negotiate with Comcast customer service for you.
This chatbot will deal with Comcast customer service for you
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How Jaguar cloned a legendary supercar from 1957
How to recreate auto tech from 60 years ago.
In reverse engineering tech from 60 years ago, Jaguar has to be innovative about being retro. Read on.
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How a rainstorm killed 61,000 reindeer
Climate change will only make this more common
In 2013, 61,000 reindeer died of starvation on a remote peninsula in Siberia, upending the livelihoods of reindeer herders in the region.
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How the internet is changing the way we fight wars
The future of warfare
Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a video series called Future First.
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China to Trump: Actually, no, we didn't invent climate change
An inconvenient truth
Trump spent his first week as president-elect appointing other officials who think climate change is a hoax and pondering the best ways to take down the Paris climate…
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Human patient treated with CRISPR gene editing for the first time
Chinese researchers hope the tool will help fight cancer
Researchers in China have tested gene editing with the CRISPR technique in humans for the first time, offering a potential new treatment for lung cancer.
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Balloon-Bodied Bipedal Bot Bounces Beautifully
For robots, walking on two legs is hard. Helium helps.
Ballon-bodied robot is light weight and balanced.
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Scientists just synthesized the deadly toxin of an adorable frog
Death in a test tube
A team of researchers has devised a way to synthesize the toxin, as well as its enantiomer, a mirror-image version of BTX.
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One day the gunk on your phone might help put you in jail
It's like a gross chemical selfie
It’s not just your cell phone that contains tons of information about you, but the grime of daily life that coats the phone as well.
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China's deep spacecraft will be guided by X-ray pulses from distant stars
Blog: Eastern Arsenal
The country is launching the first satellite in the world that won't be guided from Earth.
China launches the first satellite in the world that won't be guided from earth, but rather by the powerful x-ray pulses of distant stars.
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Colorblind? This app could help fill in the gaps.
Make patterns pop
A new app from Microsoft is designed to help people with color blindness see the world a little bit more clearly.
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New Zealand earthquake lifts a bizarre sea wall up to land
This looks totally alien (but it's also totally ordinary)
These photos are insane (but they’re also totally explainable)…
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Teenage cancer victim wins the right to be cryogenically preserved
It’s a historic ruling, but there’s still no science to back it up
But the science says it won’t work…
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Scientists tweak plant genes to enhance photosynthesis and increase crop yields
Pump up the yams
Researchers announced that they’d found a way to boost crop output by changing plants on a genetic level to make them use the sun’s energy more effectively.
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A wind-powered record player, the microbes of beer pong, and more
Our favorite images of the week
Our favorite images from this week in science, health, and environmental news.
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How algae could make global warming worse
Not that we needed any help with that
Greenland’s hefty ice sheet, three times larger than Texas, is melting faster than ever and contributing to rising sea levels. In addition to the warming climate, there…
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Can I replace my laptop with a tablet?
And which one should I pick?
Are you able to replace your laptop with a tablet? Find out using this flowchart.
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How to eat as much food as humanly possible this Thanksgiving
Get stuffed
Filling up too fast on a good holiday meal means you won’t manage to grab seconds or thirds of all the best dishes. You need to maximize your food intake—here's how.
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Sexism may be bad for men's mental health
(Gasp)
In a meta-analysis of 78 studies with 19,453 participants, researchers found modest but negative associations between a number of masculine norms and mental health…
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How scientists will use artificial intelligence to find aliens
To find habitable worlds in a sea of space data, we need computers that can think fast
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence to help them analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets to determine which ones may be suitable for extraterrestrial…
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