Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has found ways to plant memories in mice. Here's what that could mean for humans.

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

From coffee and green tea to bananas and pecans, new research on everyday ingredients revealed surprising connections between ...

It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

In 2025, Popular Science continued our mission to demystify our weird world for millions of readers. We debunked myths about ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

By one calculation, spending on AI accounted for 92 percent of America’s GDP growth in the first half of 2025. This year, a ...

A 10-minute non-negotiable is a daily micro-ritual you commit to, due to its simplicity and size, that overrides all internal ...

Conspiracies might be fun to entertain. But the "big lie" tactic destroys your judgment and credibility. Find out why, and ...