Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur’s Butthole in Exquisite Detail
When a dog-sized Psittacosaurus was living out its days on Earth, it was probably concerned with mating, eating, and not being killed by other dinosaurs....
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This Extremely Fluffy Exoplanet Is Changing Our Understanding of Planetary Formation
One of the fluffiest exoplanets we’ve ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant planets form. It’s called WASP-107b,...
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The polar vortex is about to split in two. But what does that actually mean?
The polar vortex might mean cold weather—but it’s not clear how much snow or ice that might mean. (Jaymantri/Pexels/) A blob of warm air high...
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Wind Generated More Than Half of Britain’s Electricity For The First Time on Saturday
Wind power accounted for more than half of Great Britain’s daily generated electricity on Saturday in the wake of Storm Bella, according to energy giant...
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Your retirement account can also help protect the planet
Investing can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be hard. (Pexels/) Retirement planning is already fraught with anxiety. It involves financial calculations and long-term...
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Octopus And Squid Evolution Is Officially Stranger Than We Could Have Ever Imagined
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism...
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The best science and tech stories of 2020, from the editors of Popular Science
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Massive, Unrivalled Deep-Sea Project Just Discovered a Bunch of New Atlantic Species
It’s taken nearly five years, 45 research expeditions, and more than 80 scientists and students, but the largest oceanic research enterprise, the ATLAS project, is officially...
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Physicists Are Still Hunting Primordial Black Holes to Solve The Dark Matter Problem
For a while now, physicists have been hunting for primordial black holes, exotic objects that could have formed in the early Universe and spawned a...
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Despite The Dumpster Fire of 2020, Here Are 11 Huge Achievements We Made in Science
With just a handful of days left in this strange beast of a year that will most certainly go down in history books, we thought...