Spacecraft assembly facilities at Kennedy Space Center are scrubbed to near-sterility, blasted with ultraviolet light, and flooded with industrial disinfectants. Yet when researchers sequenced bacteria collected during the Phoenix Mars lander’s assembly, they found something unexpected: 26 entirely new species, …
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Watching the aurora borealis (in the Northern Hemisphere) or aurora australis (in the Southern Hemisphere) is unforgettable. Photographing them is on a whole other level. Capturing …
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that from our point …
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December 25, 2025 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre …
A study published in 2022 found a tenuous but plausible link between picking your nose and an increased risk of developing dementia. In cases where picking at your nose causes internal tissue damage, critical species of bacteria have a clearer …
Blatten in Switzerland was buried by a landslide in May 2025 ALEXANDRE AGRUSTI/AFP via Getty Images In May, the village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps was destroyed when a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed, but thanks to careful …
Overharvesting has raised conservation concerns for a widely foraged plant, but researchers say that better genetic insights could support more effective protection efforts. For years, the wild ramp community has disagreed about how many kinds there really are. Some have …
A new study led by researchers at McGill University is calling into question a long-standing idea about how dopamine influences movement. The findings suggest a shift in how scientists understand Parkinson’s disease and how its treatments work. The research, published …
If you’ve ever shopped for binoculars as a beginner, you’ll have probably noticed that they all look similar, they’re packed full of jargon about coatings and prisms, and the price tags range from “that’s cheaper than going out for dinner” …
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