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a baby crocodile hatches from an egg, surrounded by other eggs.
Animals

106 critically endangered Siamese crocodile eggs spotted in Cambodia

By Laura Baisas

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Animals

What does a pug skull look like? University digitizes skulls of 152 dog breeds.

By Popular Science Team

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Animals

Breakthrough cobra venom antidote discovered

By Andrew Paul

a 3D rendering of three early humans butchering a giant armadillo
Animals

Early humans butchered enormous armadillos

By Laura Baisas

a long, dark brown millipede crawling on brown and green leaves
Animals

Expedition finds a 10-inch long millipede lost to science for 126 years

By Laura Baisas

The English women's athletics team, the appearance of the first UK female athletes at international Olympics, Sweden, Stockholm 1912.
Animals

The Olympics has been obsessed with sex for centuries

By Popular Science Team

Cat Falling
Animals

How animals use physics

By Tom Siegfried / Knowable Magazine

Dragonfly resting on flower
Animals

Dragonflies reveal how toxic mercury moves in nature

By Andrew Paul

EF EcoFlow River 2 portable power stations arranged in a pattern
Energy

Get an EcoFlow portable power station with a solar charging panel for just $179 before they sell out on Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

A blue Bird Buddy Smart Bird Feeder filled with seed is mounted to a green post.
Animals

The Bird Buddy is the best bird feeder camera at its best price ever for Prime Day

By Stan Horaczek

several snakes entwined together on a rock
Animals

Ssssso many snakes: Watch a ‘mega-den’ of rattlesnakes in real time

By Laura Baisas

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries
Agriculture

How plant hunting has evolved over the centuries

By Bill Gourgey

A eufy pet camera in a pattern on a plain background.
Animals

The 50+ best Prime Day pet sales, chosen by our editors

By Amanda Reed

storm chasers
Environment

What do storm chasers really do?

By Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski / The Conversation

beluga whales
Animals

Beluga Whale Live Cam brings the ‘canaries of the sea’ to your screen

By Laura Baisas

Researcher Andrea Spolaor holds an ice core recovered in Svalbard, Norway in April 2023.
Climate Change

The race to save glacial ice records before they melt away

By Nicola Jones / Yale Environment 360

two people standing and looking at a cuckoo clock on a hotel
Energy

This 500-year-old hotel in Germany’s Black Forest is an energy self-sufficient wonder

By Alisha McDarris

co2 collector containers
Climate Change

Why carbon capture needs to evolve

By Natasha Gilbert / Knowable Magazine

Beautiful cat on red background
Animals

Why do cats make biscuits?

By RJ Mackenzie

harvester ants
Animals

How ants acts for the common good of the colony

By Tom Hawking

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