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How to fix your Google Discover page

Filed Under: PopSci, SCI-TECH

The Google Discover page is just a swipe away from the home screen on millions of Android phones—including on the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy. But a lot of users aren’t necessarily aware that it’s there, or how they can make the most of it.

As the name suggests, the aim of the page is to help you discover information of interest. It could be news stories, sports scores, or weather forecasts for example, and over time the page should get better at figuring out what you want.

If you’ve never taken a proper look at the Google Discover page, or don’t feel you’ve ever really understood how it works, read on. It’s not something you’ll find built into iPhones, though you can find a similar page inside the Google app for iOS.

Navigating to the Google Discover page

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Google Discover will serve up a host of news stories for your feed. Screenshot: Google

All it takes to get to the Discover page on an Android phone is a swipe from left to right on the home screen. If you’ve got several home screens in play, you need to keep swiping until you get to the one that’s furthest to the left—then the next swipe should open up Google Discover for you.

You might find some slight variations depending on the type of Android phone you’ve got. For example, Google Discover is enabled by default on Galaxy phones, but can be replaced by a Samsung News screen. To get Google Discover back, open up Samsung News, then tap the three dots (top right): Choose Add media page to Home screen, and you’re able to choose between Google Discover and Samsung News.

At first, if you’ve just started using the Google Discover feature, the news stories you see might not be all that relevant to you. They’ll be based on a variety of factors and information that Google has access to, which might include your Chrome browsing history and your past Google searches—so these stories should be at least somewhat related to what you’ve previously looked up online.

You can tap on any story to read it within the built-in Google Discover browser: Use the down arrow and cross icons (top left) to minimize or close the browser as needed, and get back to Discover. There are also buttons underneath each story to like the story and to share it with others (you can pick a specific contact or app, or get a link to share).

Keep scrolling down the Discover page to get more and more stories. Up at the top, you get some information widgets that serve up sports scores, weather forecasts, stock prices, sunrise and sunset times, currently playing media, and other content Google thinks you’ll be interested in. At the very top, you can tap Google to run a web or AI search.

Customizing the Google Discover page

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You can customize Discover and run searches from it too. Screenshot: Google

Now you know where to find the Google Discover page and how to get around it, you’ll want to start customizing it. To some extent this should happen automatically, as Google learns more about you through your browsing history (if it’s in Chrome on the desktop or mobile), and through your Google searches.

If you tap the three dots next to any story in your Discover feed, you’ll find there are several options you can use to refine the sort of news you’re seeing: You can choose to See less content like this, or tell Google that you’re Not interested in a topic. It’s also possible to block a particular website from Discover via this pop-up menu.

In the other direction, you can express approval for a story choice by tapping the heart icon underneath it. You also have the option to Save a story to look at later (tap on the three dots to find it). To find stories you’ve saved, tap on your Google account picture (top right), then Saves and collections.

You’re able to customize the Discover feed in several other ways: Tap your Google account picture (top right), then Search personalization, and you can tweak the stories you’ve liked, the topics you’re following (like “soccer” and “tech” for example), and the list of items that you’re not interested in—so if you’ve previously never cared for cat content, but now you love it, you can edit that here. You can also edit your Google search history.

There’s also a way to set your preferred news stories across Google Discover and Google search: You need to run a standard Google search from Discover about a topic in the news, then click the icon next to the right of the Top Stories box. From there you can add preferred sources—so you might want to include Popular Science, for example.

The post How to fix your Google Discover page appeared first on Popular Science.

What do you see? 12 extreme close-ups bring ‘hidden science’ to life

Filed Under: PopSci, SCI-TECH

Science is all around. Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us (Candlewick/MiTeenPress, November 4, 2025) is a joyful invitation to discover just how amazing our world is. Organized into five thematic sections, the book turns learning about science into a guessing game. Detailed photographs like the ones below taken by MIT researcher and science photographer Felice Frankel challenge readers to deduce the underlying chemical, natural, or physical processes at play. Then, with the a turn of the page, the scientific explanation is revealed. Images are republished with permission. (Click to expand images to full screen.)

a close up of a pink gerbera daisy
Although it appears to be a single stunningly beautiful flower, the gerbera is a composite of hundreds of flowers with three different subgroups. The central disk, appearing green here, contains the subgroup called disk florets. Surrounding the central disk are the trans florets. Look carefully in the trans area to find the small yellow structures. These are stamens. Image: Felice Frankel.
droplets of multicolored paint
While walking past a storefront that was being painted with all sorts of colors, I noticed quite
a bit of the paint splattered on the sidewalk. It reminded me of a Jackson Pollock painting. The patterns of droplets, dribbles, and swaths of paint depend on the viscosity among other things. Image: Felice Frankel.
sandy steps leading down to a beach
The traces of sand on the stairs, previously suspended in the ocean’s water, were brought in with high tide, which occurs when the moon exerts its gravitational pull on the Earth. Image: Felice Frankel.
Autumn is my favorite time of the year. The colors of the leaves are caused by the breakdown of the green pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll helps the leaves extract energy from sunlight. Since the chlorophyll is not being replenished in the autumn, the yellowish and red pigments now can be seen. Image: Felice Frankel.
Autumn is my favorite time of the year. The colors of the leaves are caused by the breakdown of the green pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll helps the leaves extract energy from sunlight. Since the chlorophyll is not being replenished in the autumn, the yellowish and red pigments now can be seen. Image: Felice Frankel.
bubbles in a slear liquid
I always find it fascinating seeing bubbles form after I pour carbonated water into a glass. The bubbles are carbon dioxide that is dissolved in the liquid under pressure. When we open a bottle or can, the pressure is released and the carbon dioxide comes out of the solution as bubbles or effervescence. Image: Felice Frankel.
green leaves with a wavy texture
Lamb’s ear has a hairy surface that makes the leaves hydrophobic. When water comes into contact with the leaves, it beads up and rolls off rather than sitting on the leaf surface. The effect provides nature with a way of cleaning the leaves. Image: Felice Frankel.
a close up of sauteed vegetables where the colors are blurred
While sautéing yellow, orange, red, and green peppers for a pasta dish on my induction stove, the glass cover on my pan began to reflect all the wonderful colors. Heat from the cooking surface caused the water from the peppers to vaporize, creating steam that was captured by the glass cover. The water coalesced into larger drops, forming condensation on the glass. Image: Felice Frankel.
white and red strawberries
Have you ever seen white strawberries? It turns out that they are not strawberries, but pineberries, which are very similar to the red strawberries we are used to seeing. Both of these types of berries appear to have “seeds” on the surface, but those dots are not actually seeds. They are the plant’s ovaries, called achenes. Image: Felice Frankel.
tarnished metal with green, orange, and brown splotches
This metal fence was originally painted green, but corrosion has caused the steel of the fence to rust and paint to flake off. Rust (iron oxide, which is red or yellowish) is formed from oxidation. Image: Felice Frankel. 
the bottom of a copper pt with red, orange, blue, and green tarnish
When the bottom of my copper pot was exposed to heat and air, it was oxidized, leading to the formation of a thin layer of copper compounds—especially copper carbonate—on its surface. We call the process patina formation (or just patination). Over time, different types of oxidation reactions take place, forming various copper compounds. The different compounds produce the colors. Image: Felice Frankel. 
sunlight reflecting off of water
The bright sun glitter in the foreground is a result of sunlight reflecting off a rippled surface of water. The angle of the sun hitting the waves determines the shapes of the sun’s reflection. Where you stand makes a difference to what you see. Image: Felice Frankel. 
a close up of opal, with blue lights and dots of red and green
Over many years of geological time, opal is slowly formed as many small spheres of silica (what
glass is made of) self-assemble into perfectly ordered layers. Diffraction (not to be confused with refraction) occurs when light passes through the spheres and gaps, and it is split into the colors of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Image: Felice Frankel.

Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us (Candlewick/MiTeenPress, November 4, 2025).

Felice Frankel is a renowned science photographer and MIT research scientist. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Newsweek, Nature, and Scientific American, she is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The post What do you see? 12 extreme close-ups bring ‘hidden science’ to life appeared first on Popular Science.