Human influence on their habitats sends penguins mixed signals
Ecological traps happen when environmental signals suggesting a great place to eat, drink, or have babies, actually point to places that are the opposite.
Climate change and overfishing set a deadly trap for young penguins
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No one knows the best way to stop a drone
Is there a way to knock drones out of the sky that’s just as cheap as the drone itself?
There are many proposed ways to stop a drone and none of them are great. Read on.
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The rusty patched bumblebee is probably doomed
Trump administration freezes endangered species act protections
In an executive order, President Trump has frozen protections for the first bumblebee ever listed as an endangered species.
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Here's what NASA's Europa lander could look like
It's designed to search for life on Jupiter's icy moon
NASA just dropped a 264-page report outlining the goals of the Europa mission and which instruments they might send.
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A hi-fidelity LED speaker with a subwoofer for 70 percent off? Yeah, I'd buy it
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Drones are setting their sights on wildlife
And they’re making science safer for everyone involved
To learn about wild animals, biologists have traditionally flown small planes or helicopters overhead, poured over satellite pictures, or approached on foot. But…
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NASA has an unusually bold plan to find life on Europa
For the first time since the Viking mission failures, the space agency may take the direct approach
The Europa lander's primary goal would be to search for evidence of life on this frigid world.
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Not just cockroaches: Here are other crazy objects found in people’s skulls
Warning: This post may cause you to believe something is residing in your skull. Don’t worry, it's all in your head.
Here some other reports of crazy objects making their way into available brain passages.
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How the Pacific Ocean changes weather around the world
Our current understanding of the El Niño Southern Oscillation
There is a growing realization today that the world’s weather is inextricably linked: weather is global. And the weather story of the planet begins in the world’s…
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A scale-stripping gecko, an intergalactic bridge, and other amazing images of the week
Newsworthy eye candy
The most interesting images of from this week in science, health, and space news.
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12 gardening buys for the horticulturally hopeless
Can't keep anything alive? You're not alone.
A lot of things can go wrong in the garden. No matter what color your thumb is, here are some items that can help make your dream of being a gardener a little easier.
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Delightful pictures of zoo animals playing in the snow
Because it's Friday
A snowstorm hammered the Northeast yesterday, dumping as much as a foot of snow in some places.
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How New Zealand is avoiding hundreds of exploding whale corpses
Why do they explode in the first place?
Much like a dream deferred, a beached whale explodes. And when the resulting smell is “one of the worst smells in the world,” it’s worth it to figure out a way to…
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Scientists spotted a supernova just hours after it exploded
Its dying gasps could reveal what makes stars go out with a bang
Scientists aren't sure why or how these stars detonate, but recent observations of a six-hour-old supernova are shedding light on the star's final moments…
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Even animals deep below the ocean are being poisoned by toxic chemicals
Deep sea exploration uncovers crustaceans poisoned by PCBs
New study finds that deep sea crustaceans are tainted with some of the highest observed levels of PCB and PDBE pollution.
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What is happening with the Oroville Dam spillway?
Pop Sci’s archives offer some context.
PopSci took a look at our archives to get a better understanding of the still unfolding Oroville Dam emergency.
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An insulated thermal coffee carafe for 70 percent off? Yeah, I'd buy it
Hot coffee—anywhere!—for $24.
An insulated thermal coffee carafe for 70 percent off? Yeah, I'd buy it. Read on.
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Texture is the final frontier of food science
Tweaking texture could give us healthy versions of our favorite junk foods—and that's just the beginning
Texture has a lot more to do with the flavor of your food than you might think.
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The test used to see if animals are self-aware might not actually work
The famed mirror test might not be as useful as we thought
If you can’t recognize yourself in a mirror, that means you don’t have a sense of self. But what if we just weren’t testing them properly?
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'Popular Science' answers a question Strong Bad asked us 13 years ago
A question about (sb)emails
In 2004, Strong Bad asked Popular Science if it would be bad to get two jillion emails every two jillion seconds. That question has gone unanswered...until now.
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