From my disease-fearing brain to yours
Gifts for the person who thinks they have come down with everything from cancer to shingles.
10 gifts for the hypochondriac in your life
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How much space do pandas need to survive?
Turns out it’s kind of a lot
New research shows that pandas need areas of at least 114.7 square kilometers to survive.
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The 100 Greatest Innovations Of 2016
Secret Santas, take note
Each year, Popular Science picks the 100 greatest new innovations in science and technology to feature in our Best Of What's New issue.
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Trump's pick to lead the EPA is a climate change denier (who's suing the EPA)
The nominee has extensive ties to fossil fuel companies
Scott Pruitt, currently the Oklahoma Attorney General, has been nominated by President-elect Trump to be the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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All the NASA space gifs you never knew you needed
The agency's new GIPHY page is a delight
Pictures of space: Great. Gifs of space: Even better.
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Mobile money helped 2 percent of households in Kenya rise out of poverty
M-PESA is letting more women break into business
Being able to access services to send and receive money by cell phone has helped lift 194,000 households in Kenya out of poverty.
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Silly Putty makes for super-sensitive sensors
Add graphene to get detectors that can measure breathing, blood pressure—and spider footsteps
When you mix Silly Putty with graphene—strong, conductive carbon sheets with unusual physical properties—it becomes an incredibly sensitive strain detector that can…
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Are jellyfish going to take over the ocean?
An interview with jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin
Jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin recently sat down with Nexus Media to share insights from her research and discuss her new books, Jellyfish: A Natural History and…
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John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies at 95
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17 Star Trek gifts we want right now
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The planet is heating up faster than species can migrate
A new study finds evidence of many local extinctions
Climate change could doom numerous species irreversibly, including those that people depend on for resources and food. The trend is especially troubling in tropical and…
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You can taste garlic with your feet
Garlic's Allicin can go through the protective layers of your skin.
A molecule within garlic called Allicin can permeate the skin in your feet and travel through your blood to your mouth and nose.
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Our favorite science-themed ugly Christmas sweaters
Why wait for a conversation to tell people how much you love science? And puns. And staying cozy.
'Tis the season for ugly Christmas sweaters. Here are our favorite science-themed varieties.
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This feathery dinosaur tail has been beautifully preserved for 99 million years
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The next generation of brain implant is a teeny tiny coil
The micro coils make mind-controlled prosthetics easier to use
Brain implants have been an exploding area of research in recent years. With the right understanding, they have the potential to help people with a broad range of…
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Monkeys may technically be able to talk (but this will make you glad they don't)
They're physically capable, and boy do they sound terrifying
Monkeys have more advantaged vocal structures than previously thought.
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Birds in tiny goggles, exploding batteries, and more
Our favorite science images of the week
This week's coolest images in science, health, and technology news…
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How to prepare your kids for jobs that don't exist yet
The founder of littleBits on turning kids into creators
Ayah Bdeir explains what she thinks the most important things are to prepare today's kids for the jobs that will emerge tomorrow.
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Here's how I made my fiancé a blinking engagement ring
Build a symbol straight out of Achewood
A blinking engagement ring, originally introduced in the Achewood webcomic, makes its way into real life.
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We've spotted cloudy weather on a giant exoplanet
And its clouds may be made of gemstones
Today, scientists announced they've seen weather on a Jupiter-like exoplanet for the first time. The planet is a gas giant named HAT-P-7 b, and it orbits a star…
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