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. If you’ve ever poured milk into a cup of coffee and watched it swirl, you’ve seen turbulence in action. This phenomenon is responsible for everything from a bumpy airplane …

. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Greer Jarrett has spent the past three years sailing Scandinavia’s waterways in historically accurate Viking …

. US forecasters are expecting an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 19 named storms, and 6 to 10 of those becoming hurricanes. Every year, the National Oceanic …

. During a briefing from the Oval Office this week, President Donald Trump revealed his administration’s plan for “Golden Dome”—an ambitious high-tech system meant to shield the U.S. from ballistic, …

. Wool garments provide a cozy home for the eggs of body lice, which spread the bacterium Borrelia recurrentis.Credit: Kathy deWitt/Alamy A deadly infection that is spread by body lice …

. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has told more than 1,000 telework employees that they must return to on-site work. The move effectively ends remote work at JPL, which had …

. Birds have run, swum and flown around Earth since the dinosaur age, and they’ve hunted for food and raised their fuzzy chicks for generation after generation. These feathery creatures …

. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Contrary to conspiracy theories, the Earth’s core isn’t hollow. The dense, hot ball instead contains …

. The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it’s …

. Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In this episode, we …