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Mysterious giant sharks that outlived the dinosaurs lurking in Puget Sound

By Margherita Bassi

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Yes, you can be allergic to water

By Jennifer Byrne

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Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets practice stomping and flapping

By Popular Science Team

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If you use Google accounts, it’s time to do a free security checkup

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Watch adorable animals compete for best chewer in 2026 Crunch-a-Thon

By Margherita Bassi

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How to remove bamboo from your yard

By Debbie Wolfe

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Why airplane toilets are tiny engineering marvels

By Popular Science Team

The exterior of the reconstructed Catholic chapel at Historic St.Mary's City in St. Mary's City, Maryland

1.3 million people share DNA with Maryland’s earliest colonists

a robot scouring a reef

It’s a barracuda! It’s a shrimp! It’s a robot helping coral reefs.

By Mack DeGeurin

A photo of the Guangxi reed snake on the forest floor

‘Two-headed snake’ confuses predators

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Superbloom turns Redwood National Park’s hills purple

By Laura Baisas

A young three-toed sloth climbing in a tree peers out at camera from moss-covered branches.

Why sloths risk their lives to poop

By Jennifer Byrne

REI anniversary sale products including a watch, tent, jacket, and boot on a background of stones.

REI just dropped its biggest sale of the year and it’s blowing out apparel, camping gear, and more for clearance prices

By Stan Horaczek

Gozney pizza ovens

Grab a rare discount on Gozney’s high-end pizza ovens during this early summer sale

By Stan Horaczek

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International Space Station

ISS astronauts pose with fresh fruit in microgravity

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Intrepid man tests giant flaming darts used on 16th century warship

A Denon AVR-X2900 AVR sitting on a wooden midcentury modern A/V cabinet next to a speaker tower.

Denon introduces two full-range midrange A/V receivers, and we got a first listen

Chikao Umezawa, head of JA Kisarazu-shi, posed for a photo beside a robot named "Super Monster Wolf", a solar powered robot designed to scare away wildlife from farmers crops in Kisarazu, southwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan on August 10, 2017. Wolf Bot uses an infrared ray sensor when wild animals approach. It begins to intimidate wild animals by flashing red LED lights from its eyes on and off and blaring 48 repeated different types of loud sounds. (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NUR Photo) (Photo by Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears

The front of the coin represents Christ’s crucifixion (right). The reverse side has the Greek letters alpha and omega, symbolizing God as the beginning and the end (left).

Rare medieval coins used as anti-Viking charms found in a field

By Laura Baisas