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A small plant sprouting out of some brown dirt.
DIY

Quick and dirty tips to make sure your plants love the soil they’re in

By Ellen Airhart

a man in workout clothes lifting a kettlebell on a yoga mat outside at home in his yard
DIY

Everything you need for a basic home gym

By Harry Guinness

Tortoise on the ground surrounded by plants
DIY

How to turn your garden into a tortoise sanctuary

By Natalie Wallington

mushrooms growing in the wild
DIY

How to forage your way through your neighborhood

By Ellen Airhart

A person sitting in a car with their bare feet out the open window, looking at a road map while overlooking an ocean.
DIY

Make your fall weekends more exciting with geocaching

By Noah Lederman

Person chopping vegetables and putting them in lunch boxes
DIY

A guide to easy, healthy school lunches that kids will eat

By Jean Levasseur

Homemade marshmallows sprinkled with powdered sugar on a cutting board, next to a mug of hot chocolate with a marshmallow in it.
DIY

Can you handle these fat, fluffy DIY marshmallows? Let’s find out.

By Natalie Wallington

Panis quadratus on a marble plate on a wooden table
DIY

Eat like an ancient Roman by recreating bread from Pompeii

By Alisha McDarris

Bowl of chapulines
Animals

You should start eating bugs. Here’s how.

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Three mason jars with homemade fabric dye and some dyed shirts inside them. From left to right: purple, orange, and pink.
DIY

Make natural fabric dye with vegetable scraps

By Natalie Wallington

A tiger swallowtail butterfly puddling and drinking water in a muddy area.
Animals

Butterflies drink more than nectar—here’s how to turn your yard into an oasis

By Kristine Nemec

A refinished wooden side table with black iron legs, on a hardwood floor next to a pink armchair.
DIY

Upgrade your stooping game by learning how to refinish a table

By Shawn Shinneman

Pot of melted chocolate
DIY

How to temper chocolate—even in hot weather

By Natalie Wallington

A bar cart with lined-up bottles of infused syrup.
DIY

Craft herbaceous homemade drinks with simple syrup infusions

By LaVonne Roberts

Nintendo Labo gives you new ways to play
Console Gaming

The coolest Nintendo Labo creations we could find

By Brittany Vincent

A homemade DIY rubber stamp made in the image of the Popular Science magazine logo.
DIY

Make a custom rubber stamp to leave your mark on everything

By Natalie Wallington

View from inside a catio with white cat on a swing
Animals

Tips to build the safest, most purr-fect catio for your feline overlord

By Haley Weiss

A hedgehog drinking water out of a bowl on some grass.
Animals

How to protect wildlife from extreme heat

By Natalie Wallington

Light brown dog rising its paw as in a greeting
Animals

Moisturize your pup’s pads with some DIY paw balm

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Brown mushrooms growing on a green, mossy surface.
DIY

Grow your own mushrooms in a homemade terrarium

By Natalie Wallington

An owl sitting on the branch of an evergreen tree in the forest.
Animals

Transform your yard into an owl kingdom

By Natalie Wallington

An electronic Post-It note
DIY

Build it: the electronic Post-It note

By Dave Prochnow

2 DIY Printers That Would’ve Impressed Gutenberg
DIY

2 DIY Printers That Would’ve Impressed Gutenberg

By Ajai Raj

man pointing a Homemade Water Blaster
DIY

How To Build Your Own DIY Water Blaster

By Daniel Dumas

Amp Your Ride
DIY

Amp Your Ride

By as told to Colleen Park, Doug Costlow

A carpet of moss next to a brown rock.
DIY

Why and how to grow your own moss garden

By Ellen Airhart

A stack of pancakes topped with berries and edible flowers, on a white plate atop a white tablecloth.
DIY

7 edible flowers and how to use them

By Natalie Wallington

A cross-stitched QR code.
DIY

How to cross-stitch a QR code—and why you should

By Ruth Kogen Goodwin

Close up to aloe vera plant
DIY

How to grow, harvest, preserve, and use aloe vera

By LaVonne Roberts

Person applying sheet mask
DIY

7 things you can do to actually prevent wrinkles

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

White liquid marshmallow.
DIY

The anatomy of a marshmallow

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

A person gardening in a wooden planter box.
Climate Change

Plant a garden that helps the planet by devouring carbon

By Ellen Airhart

Step 5
DIY

Listen To Records With Your Teeth

By Nicole Lou

The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft’s Imagine Cup
DIY

The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft’s Imagine Cup

By Julie Beck

How To Turn A Leftover Candy Cane Into A Sound Machine
DIY

How To Turn A Leftover Candy Cane Into A Sound Machine

By Steph Yin

Projects: Install a Pixel Qi Screen on Your Laptop for Computing in the Sun
DIY

Projects: Install a Pixel Qi Screen on Your Laptop for Computing in the Sun

By Mike Haney

Bacterial zoo in a bottle
Biology

Grow A Bacterial Zoo In A Bottle

By Steph Yin

Potato Chip Speaker
DIY

Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato Chip Speaker [Video]

By William Gurstelle

Chinese banyan bonsai tree on bright yellow
DIY

The beauty and science of growing bonsai

By Stan Horaczek

Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves
DIY

Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves

By Francie Diep

5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern
DIY

5 DIY Tricks To Amp Up Your Jack-O’-Lantern

By Samantha Cole

Wind-Powered Record Player
DIY

How to build a record player powered by wind

By Thom Leavy

A lawnmower, which you won't really need for a ground cover lawn, with a shovel and a broom for digging up your grass lawn.
DIY

It’s time to rip up your lawn and replace it with something you won’t need to mow

By Jean Feingold

Anthotype images on wooden table
DIY

Spice up your art with turmeric, sunlight, and a 19th century photography technique

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Old printed photos scattered around a table.
AI

How to colorize your old black and white photos

By David Nield

Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin
DIY

Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin

By Rose Pastore

Phantom Limb
DIY

Meet The Prosthetist Creating Custom-Made Insane Limbs

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A dirty, rusty grill outside on a brick patio.
DIY

How to get your grill ready for summer

By Whitson Gordon

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver
DIY

We asked for your best photos of frozen soap bubbles—and wow, did you deliver

By Sophie Bushwick

Qubie Assembled
DIY

How To Track The Lines At Your Polling Place

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything
DIY

Hack A Teddy Bear To Say Anything

By Andrew Rosenblum

comic book flip phone
DIY

Build A Keyless Car Unlocker Out of a Cellphone

By Dave Prochnow

Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH
DIY

Watch This Bicycle Go 80 MPH

By Joey Carmichael

How To Build A Smart Home Sensor
DIY

How To Build A Smart Home Sensor

By Dave Prochnow

Beer Can Camera
DIY

Turn Empty Beer Cans Into Sun-Tracking Cameras

By Dave Prochnow

Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast
DIY

Three Projects That Reinvent Breakfast

By Jeremy S. Cook

A white mug full of hot coffee on a white saucer, surrounded by roasted coffee beans.
DIY

How a popcorn popper can help you roast coffee beans at home

By Alisha McDarris

2011 Invention Awards: Dynamically Glare-Blocking LCD Sunglasses
DIY

2011 Invention Awards: Dynamically Glare-Blocking LCD Sunglasses

By Elizabeth Svoboda

A frustrated woman sitting on the floor of a bathroom, resting her arm on the carpeted lid of a toilet.
DIY

How to fix a moaning toilet

By John Kennedy

Super Moon rise over a valley
DIY

How to photograph the moon like a pro

By Stan Horaczek

Three homemade bubble lights, one blue, one red, and one green, over a small table and a chair.
DIY

Liquid lamps

By Radiohole (Eric Dyer and Maggie Hoffman)

A person striking a block of plastic with a hammer, creating white lightning against a blue background.
DIY

Gray Matter: Trap lightning in a block

By Theodore Gray

Jacob's Ladder
DIY

How To Build A Jacob’s Ladder

By William Gurstelle

An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab
DIY

An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

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