Latest Engineering Stories
Copper is the ultimate tool for innovation
How heat pumps can help fight global warming
Inside America’s legendary audio gear factory
It’s not just you: Restaurants have gotten too loud. But there are some fixes.
The new black-and-white Leica does things color cameras can’t
The Corvette is finally the supercar it deserves to be
The most important engineering innovations of 2019
How do you build a tent that dangles a thousand feet up off a cliff?
McLaren’s new sports car doesn’t need a roof, or even a windshield
First shifts with Aston Martin’s manual transmission Vantage AMR
An inside look at the 2020 Corvette Stingray’s innovative chassis design
The McLaren GT is a 200 mph supercar that’s comfortable to drive
Lamborghini built a supercapacitor into its Sián hybrid for a faster, smoother ride
The Bugatti Chiron supercar broke the 300 mph barrier and set a new speed record
Bugatti 3D printed titanium brakes to stop its $3 million Chiron supercar
Watch this fascinating time lapse of crews replacing an overpass in just a weekend
This new gold nanomaterial is so thin, it’s considered 2D
Chevrolet’s first mid-engine Corvette is a $60,000 supercar
Designer plants could help you do your laundry
Scientists are making progress with better plastic-eating bacteria
TaylorMade’s new drivers start out too fast for the rules of golf
6,000 tires, 700 horsepower, and 230 miles per hour: The Indy 500 by the numbers
Inside the 2019 Ferrari Pista, a supercar built for the racetrack
Formula 1 racing teams have intense recruitment programs for engineers
The history—and future—of hitting the road
Magnets make the Leatherman Free P2 multitool shockingly easy to use one-handed
Our bridges are failing. Here’s how we could fix them.
The steering wheel in an F1 race car requires fighter jet components and lots of practice
Building a barbell for 1,000 pound deadlifts takes careful engineering and lots of testing
Scientists could engineer a spicy tomato. Is it worth it?
Dude, where’s my amphibious car?
How architects made California’s Getty Museum fireproof
Engineering a better toilet could save millions of lives
McLaren’s $2.4 million Speedtail hypercar can hit 250 miles per hour
Humans could survive underground, but it would take a lot more than shovels
I invented an evaporation-driven car
Ferrari mixed retro racing design and a V12 engine in its limited-edition Monza cars
Rolls Royce built a silent isolation chamber in its Phantom luxury car
Bugatti made its Divo supercar faster by slowing it down
How hospitals prepare for increasingly dangerous hurricane seasons
The exhilarating history of roller coaster photography
Lab-grown pig lungs are great news for the future of organ transplantation
The stiletto heel is the embodiment of post-war material science
This textile’s twitching tendrils hint at a future of programmable materials
Termites are nature’s most amazing skyscraper engineers
Our brains can’t quit our gadgets—that didn’t happen by accident
Avoiding GMO food might be tougher than you think
How Popular Science covered the Empire State Building’s 1931 opening
Not even geckos can stick to Teflon (and other slippery facts)
The failed Florida overpass was supposed to be a shining example of accelerated bridge construction
The fast, fancy, and futuristic cars from the 2018 Geneva Motor Show
The strange history of the Olympic Torch—and why it has to stay lit
Nintendo’s Labo cardboard STEM toys are a recycling bin full of fun
A look at the engineering and architecture in this year’s Super Bowl stadium
How did Heist engineer such magical tights? They bothered to try.
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD.
We’d rather that bridges never wobbled—but here’s why they do
Meet the mountain bikes built to survive a backflip off a cliff
This year’s 11 most important innovations in engineering
Growing skin in a lab has benefits for humans and turtles alike
Ancient Romans were way better at making concrete
New heat-resistant ceramic can be squished like a marshmallow
Blind tadpoles learn to see using eyeballs attached to their butts
How to turn a spinach leaf into a human heart