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Technology

This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns 

By Mack DeGeurin

Side view of a two-seat, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter fighter plane on an airfield during World War I, mid to late 1910s. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Technology

Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight.

By Margherita Bassi

a blimp attached to a bus with a person holding a rope
Technology

19 vintage Goodyear Blimp photos on its 100th anniversary

By Popular Science Team

Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San Diego, California.
Technology

108-year-old submarine wreck seen in stunning detail in new footage

By Margherita Bassi

Boeing Super Hornet taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier
Technology

US Navy loses $60 million fighter jet after it falls into Red Sea

By Andrew Paul

World War II jeep found at site of underwater shipwreck
Science

NOAA needs help identifying car found in WWII shipwreck

By Andrew Paul

Bridge over water in Rio Vista, California
Technology

Billionaire utopian city launches new shipyard plan

By Andrew Paul

Photograph of HMS Tuberose aka RMS Mauretania enters New York harbour in full dazzle, carrying returning troops after the end of the Great War. Dated 1918. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Technology

The illusory reality of WWI dazzle camouflage, re-examined

By Mack DeGeurin

Takeshi Ebisawa holding rocket launcher
Technology

Yakuza boss tried to traffic nuclear weapons-grade plutonium

By Andrew Paul

planes and astronauts collage
Technology

5 aerospace breakthroughs of 2024

By Popular Science Team

a variety of products on a banner reading 'best of what's new 2024'
Technology

The 50 greatest innovations of 2024

By Popular Science Team

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it
Technology

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

By Andrew Paul

Close up of C-17 cargo plane
Technology

Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

By Andrew Paul

HMS Trooper submarine wreckage
Military

WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

By Andrew Paul

Concept art depicting the X-37B space plane aerobraking above Earth
Technology

Space Force’s mysterious X-37B is testing its ‘aerobraking’

By Andrew Paul

USS Stewart bow shipwreck with barnacles and crabs
Technology

‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ rediscovered with underwater drones

By Andrew Paul

Germany’s North and Baltic Seas are littered with munitions from the First and Second World Wars, such as shells—as shown here—once fired from German battleships.
Technology

The big Baltic bomb cleanup

By Paul Hockenos / Hakai Magazine

man holds camera
Technology

The tech that changed elections forever

By Popular Science Team

Bespoke images created for Unplugged Performance
Technology

‘Militarized’ Cybertrucks are coming—if you can open the doors

By Andrew Paul

a person in a gas mask with 'death sand' on the screen
Technology

The sand that (almost) killed millions

By Popular Science Team