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Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
Popular Science editor Mark Jannot talks to the data wizard about big data, human understanding, and the origin of the universe
Bold Plans to Save the Seas
Two years ago, I sat with roughly 1,500 fellow attendees of the annual TED Conference and listened as one of...
Letter From the Editor: Introducing How It Works
Editor Mark Jannot on the origin of our sixth-annual tear-things-apart-and-look-inside package
Best of What’s New 2010: Our 100 Innovations of the Year
The most marvelous time of the year
Test Drive Video: Honda’s U3-X Prototype, Where Segway Meets Unicycle
It's not crash-proof!
Introducing the Popular Science Tech Buyer’s Guide
The advantage to working at a place like PopSci is that, between our editors and contributors, I’m surrounded by tech...
Best of What’s New 2009: The Year’s 100 Greatest Innovations
Innovation manifests itself in myriad ways: groundbreaking, revolutionary bursts we'd never before imagined possible, or in more nuanced but no less brilliant refinements of existing technology. And while this year's list contains plenty of instances of the former, in compiling it we've noticed one thing: 2009 is the year of stealth innovation.
The Science Vote
Ed Letter: As the election nears, the candidates finally reveal where they stand on some crucial scientific issues
