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Health

America’s deadly 1920s obsession with radioactive water

By Popular Science Team

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Climate Change

Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ keeps getting bigger

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Ask Us Anything

We can’t launch our trash into the sun. But why?

By Popular Science Team

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Technology

The ’90s ‘mind-control glasses’ that ended in lawsuits

By Popular Science Team

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Biology

The man who lived with no brain

By Popular Science Team

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Internet

The forgotten technology that made YouTube possible

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

‘I traveled 8,000 miles for the camera that killed Polaroid’

By Eric Alt

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Popular Science Videos

The most famous mystery science might never solve

By Popular Science Team

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Technology

Interactor: The ’90s VR backpack gamers hated

By Popular Science Team

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Military

The tech that changed elections forever

By Popular Science Team

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Technology

The terrible Radio Shack computer that became your phone

By Popular Science Team

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Weapons

The sand that (almost) killed millions

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

In the 1960s, swindlers pushed fake radioactive medicine

By Popular Science Team

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Technology

The $580 million vinyl movie disaster that destroyed an empire

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

In 1967, Walter Cronkite tried to predict the year 2000. Here’s what he got right (and very wrong).

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

Move over, Facetime: We’re calling on a 1987 Mitsubishi VisiTel videophone

By Popular Science Team, Video by Kevin Lieber

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Popular Science Videos

The world’s first successful limb re-attachment is a fascinating story of science and human ingenuity

By Popular Science Team

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Popular Science Videos

The history-altering medical mystery of an astronaut who fell in the bathroom

By Popular Science Team

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Technology

The revolutionary toy technology of ‘Captain Power’ that time forgot

By Popular Science Team

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International Space Station

What a total solar eclipse looks like from space

By Popular Science Team