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How often you should wash your sheets and towels, according to science
You’ve had a long day. You can’t wait to get home, take a hot shower, and climb into bed. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Well, we hate to break it to you, but it could actually be incredibly gross....
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Fat Bear Week, Round 2 results: Bucky Dent, Backpack, 132, and 910 triumph
Update, September 25, 2026, 9:01pm EDT: Bear #164 (Bucky Dent) defeated Bear #151 (Walker) in Fat Bear Week’s biggest (literally) battle. The family of Bear #132 defeated Bear #806’s family and in a...
View ArticleRocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction—that could help us today
Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius’ eruption and the...
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Asteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
Over the past 50 years, musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has become the first artist to have a comedy album debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, amassed...
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How to help Katmai’s brown bears this Fat Bear Week
This Fat Bear Week, bear enthusiasts from around the world can not only vote for their favorite chunky brown bears (Ursus arctos). They can actually help protect the bears’ home. Every donation made...
View ArticleSweden’s solution to stop spam callers: Be ruder!
Swedish police have a message for anyone who thinks they’re talking to spam callers: hang up the phone, and embrace being rude. Local authorities are teaming up with five national celebrities in a new...
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This 1989 Popular Science article is like an Apple event live blog from...
I never got the chance to see Steve Jobs speak in person at an Apple event. I’ve been covering the company and its products for decades now (it feels a little weird to type that), but always from...
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Inside the school where dogs learn to sniff out bed bugs and other pests
Lucky works for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Her job is to track down spotted lanternfly eggs before they can hatch and cause trouble. She could have joined the police force, but during...
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Meta’s new $1,300 VR Glasses will weigh less than a stick of butter when they...
Meta’s next VR headset isn’t a headset. Meta VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams (about the same as a deck of cards) because the processor, the battery, and the storage all moved out of the frames and...
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Frogs wear bacterial suits of armor to fight off deadly fungus
To protect their porous skin, some tropical frogs have a suit of armor. But this covering isn’t made from metal or even a sturdy material like bullet-proof Kevlar. Frogs use bacteria to shield their...
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Blowhole nebulizer helps cure beluga whale’s pneumonia
Pneumonia is a common affliction among whales and dolphins. In a first for marine mammals, veterinarians have used bacteria-killing viruses to treat a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) with a...
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A treasure hunt for rare coins is coming to 4 American cities
A rare coin treasure hunt offering $40,000 in prizes is about to begin in four cities. Numismatics (the study or collection of currency) enthusiasts in and around Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco,...
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Two moms named Jean inspired the name of a 309-million-year-old fossil
When your daughter is a budding scientist, gift giving can take a whole new form. Think fewer flowers and more new prehistoric species named in your honor. Jeanerpeton mazonensis (aka “Jean’s crawler...
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What kind of animal is Gonzo?
In the 1981 film The Great Muppet Caper, the Muppets get shipped across the Atlantic in crates stenciled with the species inside. Kermit’s says FROG. Fozzie’s says BEAR. Gonzo’s says WHATEVER. If...
View ArticleSoviet ‘sea monster’ inspired this futuristic ‘flying boat’
Visitors traveling across Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay earlier this month may have seen a strange-looking boat with wings and a whale-like tail floating in the estuary’s calm late-summer waters....
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Original ‘Star Trek’ USS Enterprise heads to MIT after resurfacing on eBay
The long-lost, original USS Enterprise from Star Trek has resurfaced just in time to celebrate the beloved science-fiction series’ 60th anniversary. While the 33-inch-long model will soon be on public...
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Sea spider with hairy feet, three lips, and red eyes found in Canada
Halloween season doesn’t technically start until October, but marine biologists are celebrating a little early this year. In a recently published study for the journal Organisms Diversity &...
View ArticleEarth’s closest alien life probably isn’t very advanced, says new study
The sheer scale of the universe strongly suggests Earth isn’t its only life-hosting planet. But do distant worlds harbor the types of advanced spacefaring civilizations depicted in science fiction, or...
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This man died more than 700 years ago—so why does he look like he got hit by...
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to Popular Science’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This...
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Fat Bear Week Round 1, Part 2: Battle of the big boys and the up-and-comers
Update, September 23, 2026, 9:12am EDT: Explore.org has pushed back the voting schedule after a record-setting Day 1. The updated schedule means Round 1, Part 1 of voting will continue today,...
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