Best of What's New
The editors of Popular Science pick the year's top 100 innovations in the worlds of gadgets, aviation, engineering, health, and beyond. Est. 1988.
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The top 10 health and medicine breakthroughs of 2021
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The best gadgets of 2018
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The most amazing health innovations of 2018
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The most impressive engineering feats of 2018
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The most ground-breaking home innovations of 2018
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2019’s most exciting personal care products
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The best entertainment innovations of 2018
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The 10 most thrilling recreation innovations of 2019
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The greatest auto innovations of 2018
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2018
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2019
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The 9 Greatest Recreation Innovations Of The Year
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Software
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Engineering
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The best tech of the last decade
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Aviation
Aerospace
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Entertainment
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Auto
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The 7 Greatest Software Innovations Of The Year
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The Greatest Tech Of 2016
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Abominable Labs F-BOM
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Aviation
Northrup Grumman RQ-180
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Kohler Touchless Flush Kit
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LG EcoHybrid Dryer DLHX4072V
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RevMedx XStat
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Polaris TerrainArmor
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Nikken Sekkei BioSkin
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The 8 most exciting sports and outdoor products of 2020
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The 10 most exceptional personal care products from 2020
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The best car and automotive technologies of 2020
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The 8 most helpful new home products of 2020
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The wildest engineering innovations of 2020
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The best entertainment tech of 2020
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The best gadgets of 2020
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2020
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The most significant security innovations of 2020
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The 11 most noteworthy health innovations of 2019
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2019’s most innovative gadgets
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2019’s most impressive automotive innovations
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2019’s coolest entertainment innovations
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The biggest security breakthroughs of 2019
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The 9 most useful home products of 2019
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The most important engineering innovations of 2019
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The best recreation gear of 2018
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The greatest security innovations of 2018
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The Parker Solar Probe is the single greatest innovation of 2018
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Where we’re going, we won’t need roads
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TVs are about to get bigger. Way bigger.
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The most profound technologies are those that disappear
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On the evolution of sneaker tech, from 1933 on
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Extreme skier Davo Karnicar folds his skis
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Body, heal thyself
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Jane Poynter wants to send you to the edge of space in a very big balloon
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This year’s 11 most important innovations in engineering
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