SCIENCE

Real-life Snuffleupagus found swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 0

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. It’s undeniable. The bright reddish-orange hues, the fuzziness, the snout…there simply is no other way to put it. This unique fish looks exactly like Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street. “Once you see it, the resemblance to Snuffleupagus is impossible

Perseverance Stuns in New Selfie 0

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch, with the western rim of

Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads 0
- SCIENCE
- May 11, 2026
Passengers disembarked from the MV Hondius at the Canary Islands wearing personal protective equipment.Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Close to 150 passengers and crew members on the cruise ship MV Hondius struck by an outbreak of a deadly hantavirus have disembarked and are returning to their home countries, where they will quarantine. The way that will happen,
READ MORE
7 sciatica stretches and exercises for pain relief 0
- Fitness & Exercise, HEALTH, SCIENCE
- May 10, 2026
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Sciatica afflicts millions of people each year—though not as many people as think they have it. A growing catchall term among the undiagnosed for all manner of back problems, sciatica is a specific lower-back nerve condition that requires specific action to address. “Early detection matters,” John Gallucci Jr. MS,
READ MORE
NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview 0
- Commercial Resupply, General, International Space Station (ISS), SCIENCE, SpaceX Commercial Resupply
- May 9, 2026
NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following its arrival to the orbital complex, Dragon will dock autonomously to the forward port of
READ MORE