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Carl Sagan in 1986: ‘Voyager has become a new kind of intelligent being—part robot, part human’
Science

Carl Sagan in 1986: ‘Voyager has become a new kind of intelligent being—part robot, part human’

By Bill Gourgey

The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs
Health

The decades-long quest for lab-grown organs

By Bill Gourgey

In May 1951, Popular Science featured Aetna’s next generation simulator, the Roadometer.
Technology

Why don’t we use more driving simulators to teach teenage drivers?

By Bill Gourgey

How to trap cosmic rays in a jar like it’s 1951
DIY

How to trap cosmic rays in a jar like it’s 1951

By Bill Gourgey

3D viewing glasses on blue background of vintage PopSci magazine images; illustration
DIY

How to use 3D glasses from 1954 today

By Bill Gourgey

person holds hand to ear, old magazine illustration
DIY

This gadget from 1930 let people ‘talk’ to the dead—with a magic trick

By Bill Gourgey

Vintage robots
Robots

An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated

By Bill Gourgey

collage made from old magazine photograph and blueprints
DIY

A 1967 foot-powered tool you could build today—if you wanted to

By Bill Gourgey

collage of old magazine images
DIY

A DIY voice assistant from 1950 could mute a radio and control toy trains

By Bill Gourgey

collage of old magazine images showing scuba divers
DIY

Please do not follow this 1953 tutorial for DIY scuba gear

By Bill Gourgey

a black and white picture cut out of two men in lab coats looking at vials on a lab bench that has a microscope. in purple behind them is text of an old news article, with the headline "science closes in on the common cold"
COVID-19

Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold

By Bill Gourgey

illustrations of a person being teleported in a 1960s style
Engineering

Could quantum physics unlock teleportation?

By Bill Gourgey

a high speed rail train in black and white over a map of US rail lines in purple in the background
Engineering

High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US—and that might not change for a while

By Bill Gourgey

a black, white, and purple stylized illustration of an astronaut on the moon with equipment intended to make a moonbas
Deep Space

Is it finally time for a permanent base on the moon?

By Bill Gourgey

a schematic of a satellite beaming down to a dish to study the ocean floor
Conservation

The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor’s hidden secrets

By Bill Gourgey

Archival material from Popular Science's coverage of jetpack attempts
Aviation

When will we finally have jetpacks?

By Bill Gourgey

a black, white and purple designed image of a man driving a levitating car
Concept Cars

The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive

By Bill Gourgey

Henry Ford article How Power Will Set Men Free
Energy

Why hasn’t Henry Ford’s ideal power grid become a reality?

By Bill Gourgey

an illustration of a robotic sensor that detects if a baseball thrown is a ball or strike. in the background is a purple filtered image of baseball articles and images
Robots

Will baseball ever replace umpires with robots?

By Bill Gourgey

Images from 'Will radium restore youth?' that appeared in the June 1923 issue of Popular Science
Science

Radium was once cast as an elixir of youth. Are today’s ideas any better?

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the May 1963 issue of Popular Science.
Biology

From the archives: The discovery of DNA’s structure explained how life ‘knows’ what to do

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the February 1947 issue of Popular Science.
Gear

From the archives: When the US first caught TV fever

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the November 1922 issue of Popular Science.
Technology

From the archives: This talking gadget from the 1920s measured water levels

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the February 1969 issue of Popular Science.
Science

From the archives: Jacques Cousteau shows off his underwater film technology

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the September 1923 issue of Popular Science Monthly.
Diabetes

From the archives: How a medical ‘outsider’ discovered insulin

By Bill Gourgey

a purple and black and white stylized image of a historic foldable flying car with newspaper clippings in the background
Engineering

What it would take for cars to actually fly

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the February 1989 issue of Popular Science from an article on "brain-style" computers.
AI

From the archives: A forecast on artificial intelligence, from the 1980s and beyond

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the March 1954 issue of Popular Science.
Energy

From the archives: The promising new world of solar power—in the 1950s

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the June 1923 issue of Popular Science featuring Rube Goldberg.
Technology

From the archives: Rube Goldberg machines are serious business

By Bill Gourgey

Images from the May 1962 article in Popular Science about Zeppelins.
Aviation

From the archives: A grand tribute and eulogy for Zeppelins

By Bill Gourgey

Images from April 1981 issue of Popular Science.
Physics

From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves

By Bill Gourgey

Art from the 1960 article of Popular Science.
Environment

From the archives: Inside the U.S. Army’s plan to build a luxurious city under the Arctic

By Bill Gourgey

An image of the 1901 issue of Popular Science Monthly
Particle Physics

From the archives: The discovery of electrons breaks open the subatomic era

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of images from the Popular Science article “Food or Poison? … Strange Pranks of a Medical Mystery” (Frederic Damrau, M.D., November 1936)
Health

From the archives: When food allergies were ‘strange pranks’ for scientists to decipher

By Bill Gourgey

a black and white and purple stylized collaged image of a man holding a drafting pencil over a model of a city and on the right hand side another cut out of a circular street design
Science

The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of images from the Popular Science article “The theory of relativity and the new mechanics” (William Marshall, June 1914)
Physics

From the archives: The Theory of Relativity gains speed

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of images from the Popular Science article “How they’re closing in on polio” by Marguerite Clark, May 1953
Health

From the archives: During a devastating polio epidemic, a vaccine was finally on the horizon

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of images from “Ozone Drone” by Steven Ashley in the July 1992 issue of Popular Science.
Aviation

From the archives: NASA dispatches drone to help rescue the ozone layer

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of images from Popular Science's “Apple’s mighty mini Mac: Can little Mac challenge Big Blue?” by Jim Schefter, March 1984
Computers

From the archives: Bill Gates hypes up the Apple mini Mac in 1984

By Bill Gourgey

“Do beavers rule on Mars?” (Thomas Elway, May 1930)
Mars

From the archives: ‘Do beavers rule on Mars?’

By Bill Gourgey

An illustration from the January 1978 issue of Popular Science from an article about mobile phones.
Gear

From the archives: When 1970s cellular technology made ‘traveling telephones’ more accessible

By Bill Gourgey

An excerpt from the famous germ theory of disease lecture
Science

From the archives: The germ theory of disease breaks through

By Bill Gourgey

An illustration of explorers inside a volcano.
Science

From the archives: A 1930s adventure inside an active volcano

By Bill Gourgey

The Frigid ‘Perpetual Motion’ Machines of Tomorrow by W. Stevenson Bacon appeared in the March 1967 issue of Popular Science.
Technology

From the archives: When superconductors finally grew up

By Bill Gourgey

popsci-1921-emotion-machine
Health

Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still has psychologists stumped.

By Bill Gourgey

A collage of an article from Popular Science May 1927 issue about the origins of lab rats.
Science

How science came to rely on the humble lab rat

By Bill Gourgey

a page full of illustrated badges and awards for the Brilliant 10 scientist series
Health

The Brilliant 10: The most innovative up-and-coming minds in science

By Bill Gourgey

band-playing-for-elephants
Animals

Can music help animals relax?

By Bill Gourgey

popsci-phone-stethoscope
Health

The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine

By Bill Gourgey