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Spiral loop of a green steel roller coaster with a coaster on the track.

How to stay safe riding roller coasters

By Sara Kiley Watson

Hand grabbing Altoids tin next to another tin filled with a tiny computer

This guy crammed a laptop into an Altoids tin

Solar Impulse experimental plane flying over pyramids in Egypt

World’s largest solar-powered aircraft crashes after losing power

Hamster running on exercise wheel in cage

Clever kid builds phone charger powered by pet hamster

Line of Cybertrucks in parking lot

Cybertruck recall warns that its wheels may fly off

a team of vets puts a wire frame on a turtle's shell

Vet constructs ingenious contraption to help a tortoise hit by a car

By Margherita Bassi

Glowing blue algae arranged in different shapes

Glowing algae could power the lamps of the future

Black and white photo of Curiosity rover's robotic arm drill lifting a stone off the ground on Mars.

For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock

Close up of oyster shells

Want stronger concrete? Just add oysters.

a warning sign in front of a building for explosions

The world’s largest explosion lab is ready for big booms. And yes, it’s in Texas.

By Mack DeGeurin

Man sitting next to C-3PO replica head

Man 3D prints a chatty C-3PO head powered by AI

Lockheed X-59 aircraft in flight over Mojave Desert

NASA’s new supersonic X-59 aircraft shows off its dizzying acrobatics in new video

A brain implant to treat depression gets FDA greenlight to start trials

By Mack DeGeurin

an graphic rendering of a time capsule shaped like a cylinder

Do not open until July 4, 2276: U.S. buries a ‘zombie-proof’ time capsule

By Margherita Bassi

a man sails a homemade boat

Man builds 12-foot-long sailboat with materials from hardware store

Nervous humans are GM’s secret weapon for self-driving cars

By Kristin Shaw

Blue solar power car driving up hill

Man builds solar-powered car from e-bikes that can hit 30 mph

Side by side photos of white boot made from mushroom mycelium and a close up of the material itself

This shoe is made entirely from mushroom ‘brains’

a man dries a gray playstation console with a blue towel

Tinkerer transforms a filthy 1990s PlayStation into the ‘ultimate PS1’

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of woman holding EpiPen Launcher

Woman builds EpiPen cannon, because why not?