Science news this week: An ancient 'blue dragon' and atom-size black holes

This week in science news, we discovered the near-complete remains of a never-before-seen mosasaur that dominated the ancient Pacific Ocean, learned of atom-size black holes that could be ... Read More

Science News celebrates 100 years

In its first century of service, the organization published accurate, objective journalism in its Science News magazine, advised government agencies, cultivated the nation’s top science talent ... Read More

Highlights of Upcoming Week 3 of Citizen Science Month

We celebrate the halfway point of Citizen Science Month next week! Join SciStarter for a 12-hour nonstop Palooza of Zooniverse Projects (ZooniPalooza?). Pick your favorite project and hop online with ... Read More

Editorial Staff

He has also been managing editor of Current Science, a biweekly science news magazine for junior high school students published by the Weekly Reader Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut ... Read More

After 151 Years, Popular Science Has Shuttered Its Magazine

It's been 151 years since the first edition of Popular Science, then called ... has to evolve beyond the digital magazine product. A combination of its news team, along with commerce, video ... Read More

Rachel Feltman

She hosts and oversees the hit podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, and helps to fill the magazine’s digital ... shared millipede news on “Science Friday,” and provided expert ... Read More

The Sun Takes Center Stage for Citizen Science Month Week 2

To celebrate National Library Week, see if your library participates and, if not, learn how they can sign up. April 11: Get pet-cited! Why not get your dog or cat involved in the Citizen Science Month ... Read More

About Us | Popular Science

Daily, PopSci unpacks the science behind the top current news stories, dissects the latest ... began as more of a scientific journal than a magazine, featuring lengthy articles from the likes ... Read More

End Of An Era: Popular Science Shutters Magazine

Just three years after the iconic magazine ... Science is now halting its subscription service entirely. The brand itself will live on — their site will still run tech stories and news articles ... Read More

Mathematician Who Shed Light on Randomness in Algorithms Wins Top Prize in Computing

The 2023 Turing Award —the computing world’s Nobel Prize equivalent—has been given to mathematician Avi Wigderson for his groundbreaking and widely applicable contributions to computer science. The ... Read More

Making Short Work of Science

Alex Dainis ’11 can tell you, and — more important — she’ll get you engrossed in the answer, whether you’re science-challenged or science ... and posts at the rate of about one a week. Each Bite ... Read More

A “slow bleed” of funding threatens NASA’s science flagships

NASA’s overall science budget in the FY25 request is nearly $1 billion less than what the agency expected last year it would have available. Read More