Bias lighting will enhance the picture of your screen in a dark room.
Eye experts and home theater nerds recommend a little extra light in your home theater.
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A cheap set of LEDs is the best way to upgrade your fancy new TV
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Megapixels: NASA snapped a shot of a holiday 'wreath' in space
It's actually more of a holiday yardstick.
This season is full of stories about stars guiding travelers to far-off destinations, but new imagery from NASA shows off a stellar guide of a different sort.
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NASA's New Horizons will spend New Year's Eve staring at a very mysterious space ball
MU69 is far from your run-of-the-mill solar system object.
Get ready to meet 2014 MU69 (unofficially known as Ultima Thule), an object a billion miles beyond Pluto and 4.1 billion from Earth itself.
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How to make customer service actually respond to you
Force them to pay attention.
What happens when a company won’t refund your purchase—or worse, refuses to answer the phone in the first place? Here’s how to get a response from customer service.
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Five rad and random pieces of indoor exercise gear I found this week
The end-of-week dispatch from PopSci's commerce editor. Vol. 59.
My job is to find cool stuff. Throughout the week I spend hours scouring the web for things that are ingenious or clever or ridiculously cheap.
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You say you hate Instagram's changes, but your eyeballs say otherwise
It's 2018 and UX designers know us better than we know ourselves.
Using Instagram feels increasingly terrible. But the numbers suggest the app is performing better than ever. What gives?
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Here's how people jumped out of planes decades ago—and eject from them today
Exiting a speeding jet is no small feat. From parachutes for the balloon corps to the latest generation of high-speed ejection seats, here’s how we learned to make a swift aerial exit.
From parachutes for the balloon corps to the latest generation of high-speed ejector seats, here’s how we learned to make a swift aerial exit.
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Last Year in Tech 2018: Smartphone notches, data breaches, and sad CEOs
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Keep your home's temperature up and the heating bill down
Stop fighting over the thermostat.
When the leaves turn, the battle over the thermostat begins. This year, skip the debate over the ideal temperature. Here's how to keep warm without blasting the heat.
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What is a super blood wolf moon?
What a strawberry moon? What is a worm moon? What is going on with my moon?
Blue moons, strawberry moons, supermoons. For some reason your news aggregation algorithm of choice thinks you really really really want to know all about these moons.
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In 2018, Alaska's Bering Sea was all out of whack.
It was an extreme year.
In some regions, this was the first time in 37 years of water surveys that there was no cold pool.
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The mystery of the ISS hole just got even weirder
The hole came from the inside.
Earlier this week, a Russian cosmonaut who investigated the mysterious hole in the Soyuz capsule docked to the International Space Station revealed that the hole was…
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We've wasted so much plastic, it's almost impossible to picture—these charts will help
The most mind-boggling statistic of the year, visualized.
Less than 10 percent of all the plastic we've made has been recycled, but the enormity of that quantity is hard to really grasp.
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What happens in the minds of free climbers
Studying the brains of daredevils like Alex Honnold.
Neuroscientist Jane Joseph was using MRI scans to study thrill-seekers' brains. Then a journalist suggested she look at free-solo climber Alex Honnold.
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Scientists think they've found a super-Earth exoplanet dripping with sapphires and rubies
The right kind of chemistry can lead to some strange sorts of worlds.
The right kind of chemistry can lead to some strange sorts of worlds.
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Why the sight of blood knocks us out
Do you pass out when you get your blood drawn? You're not the only one.
Why some folks faint at the sight of blood and others don’t isn’t entirely clear, but prior fear of blood and needles often increases the chances of passing out.
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I built a sniffing machine to protect dogs
Canines can detect poachers' contraband, but the job puts them in danger.
To find illegal animal products, customs officials rely on trained dogs at ports. To keep the pooches out of harm's way, I built a smell-sucking machine so they can…
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Watch live as NASA spends New Year's Eve exploring the mysterious outer regions of our solar system
It's time to meet 2014 MU69.
Tonight, scientists around the world are spending the holiday waiting to hear news of a historic space event.
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Everything you've ever wanted to know about muscles
Building them, tearing them, repairing them, eating them.
Welcome to PopSci’s Muscle Month! We’re kicking off the season with an FAQ on all things muscle-related.
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Books are good for your brain. These techniques will help you read more.
Turn yourself into a bookworm.
Want to kick off the New Year with a new habit? Reading is a great way to relax, strengthen your brain, and improve your health. Here’s how to fit more books into your…
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