Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 2025, Popular Science continued our mission to demystify our ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward In 2025, researchers watched an interstellar comet, learned about human ...

In 2025, more than 3,800 research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation were terminated or frozen as part of the Trump administration’s effort to realign ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 12, 2025) A team of Argentinian researchers conducted a study published in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology of the combined effects of the herbicide glyphosate ...

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are usually not mixable but mix under specific circumstances — generally by using substances that help them mix. These substances are called ...

Explore the science behind Piranha Solution, a mixture known for its extreme reactivity and vital role in laboratories. The world reacts to Carney's speech Eight myths about cholesterol busted by a ...

Re “America Is Losing Its Pull for Best Minds in Science” (front page, June 4): There is another dimension by which the best minds are leaving science, particularly basic research. For years, about ...

Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, ...

Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts. By Benjamin Mueller Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...