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ford factory roof
Environment

Companies are realizing that renewable energy is good for business

By Ellen Airhart

This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark
Technology

This smart window uses electricity to quickly change from clear to dark

By Rob Verger

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change
Environment

Here’s how you can actually help stop climate change

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

A blue pipe that connects a bathroom, sewage separation tanks, a sewage mixing tank, a filtration machine, a natural body of water, and a water filtration plant, showing the cycle of making sewage drinkable.
Technology

How to make sewage drinkable

By Sara Chodosh

We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report
Environment

We’re Catching Millions Of Tons More Fish Each Year Than We Report

By Mary Beth Griggs

Mealworms Eating Styrofoam
Environment

Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam

By Mary Beth Griggs

6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds
Environment

6 Things You Should Know About Lab Diamonds

By Rebecca Harrington

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life
Health

Saving The Planet Could Save Your Life

By Mary Beth Griggs

Now You Can 3D-Print Objects Made Of Wood Fibers
Environment

Now You Can 3D-Print Objects Made Of Wood Fibers

By Alexandra Ossola

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk
Environment

8 Steps To Sustainable Meat And Milk

By Emily Gertz

Where Plastic Goes
Environment

Where Plastic Goes

By Katie Peek

The Garbage Man
Environment

The Garbage Man

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Thermal Wristband Keeps Your Body At The Perfect Temperature
Gear

Thermal Wristband Keeps Your Body At The Perfect Temperature

By Shaunacy Ferro

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller
Environment

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller

By Colin Lecher

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Environment

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By Clay Dillow

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Environment

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

By Julie Beck

Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature From Bacteria, Sand and Urine
Environment

Bio-Manufactured Bricks Are Made at Room Temperature From Bacteria, Sand and Urine

By Rebecca Boyle

A man in blue Popular Science coveralls holding a dumbbell made out of old CDs, pointing at the camera, and yelling.
DIY

PopSci 5-Minute Project video: CD dumbbell

By Popular Science Team

A clear bottle of beer next to a full glass of beer, with a six-pack of beer in the background.
Environment

A six-pack of “light” beer

By Dave Prochnow

A Popular Science magazine cover with a hacked Esquire e-ink cover panel inside it, so the title reads "You're ours now :)".
DIY

Hacking the Esquire e-ink cover

By Dave Prochnow

The Living Museum
Environment

The Living Museum

By Kalee Thompson

A DIY solar-powered electronics charger.
DIY

The DIY solar charger

By Dave Prochnow