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Big bison in the National Park on the shore of a lake or river

This national park uses helicopters for bison round-up duty

Selection of overripe avocados against yellow background

AI may help you pick the perfect avocado

a pitcher-like device

This portable, 3D-printed device can pull drinking water out of thin air

By Mack DeGeurin

An overhead shot of a human composting vessel, which resembles a long, rectangular planter box with a light wooden frame. The interior contains a layer of straw, wood chips, and organic material, with colorful pink and purple flowers scattered throughout. A white cloth-wrapped form rests in the center.

How human composting turns bodies into soil

By Jennifer Byrne

a set of billiard balls on a pool table

How billiard balls led to plastic everywhere

By Avery Schluyer Nunn

a heat pump system outside of a yellow house. it is a gray box with a fan inside and white piping

Swap your boiler for a money-saving heat pump

By Sara Kiley Watson

Pile of fall leaves with fan rake on lawn

The pros and cons of not raking leaves

By Debbie Wolfe

Researcher using thermometer to measure meatball temperatures in kitchen

Ground beef infused with apple scraps clears taste test

A photo collage with a vintage illustration of a futuristic, brown and orange sailboat, with a large sail-like structure and a smokestack, positioned on a deep blue sea with white waves. In the background, there's a faint, light-tan newspaper clipping with the headline "A Sailing Ship" and a masthead for "POPULAR SCIENCE" from February 1925.

100 years ago, ‘ghost ship’ sails baffled Einstein—now they’re making a comeback

By Bill Gourgey

Hand with microgel sunscreen applied next to jar of sunscreen and bowl of camellia seeds used in recipe

Is pollen the secret to eco-friendly sunscreen?

White polo shirt with yellow sweat stain under the sleeve

Blue light beats bleach for yellow stains

Stack of plastic bottles for recycling against blue sky

Easier plastic recycling is on the horizon

Cacao Beans in seed pods next to chocolate chunks in cacao seed pod

How to make perfect chocolate, according to science

Sailing stone in Death Valley with movement trail behind hit

Ice moves by itself on experimental metal surface

A large white mushroom cloud explodes into the upper atmosphere in a vintage photograph of a hydrogen bomb.

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska—on purpose

By Shoshi Parks

Close up of three wasps

Radioactive wasp nest found at former nuclear weapons site

a 3d printer on a counter

3D printer transforms food waste into coffee mugs and coasters

By Mack DeGeurin

3D printed house in Japan

This 3D-printed home is built from dirt

Used cigarettes in ashtray

Recycled cigarette butts can make roads more durable

Six Tesla electric cars burn on the trailer of the moving lorry carrying them after one of them catches on fire due to unknown reasons in Istanbul, Turkiye on October 06, 2023. (Photo by Muhammed Gencebay Gur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

New lithium batteries have built-in fire extinguishers