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Rage From the Machine: Robot Attacks Swedish Industrial Worker
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Rage From the Machine: Robot Attacks Swedish Industrial Worker

By Amber Sasse

Introducing the Holo-Disc
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Introducing the Holo-Disc

By Adam Hadhazy

Why Are Airplane Seats So Miserable, and What Can Be Done About It?
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Why Are Airplane Seats So Miserable, and What Can Be Done About It?

By Eric Hagerman

Hackers Breach the Joint Strike Fighter Program
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Hackers Breach the Joint Strike Fighter Program

By Jacob Ward

Hackers: the China Syndrome
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Hackers: the China Syndrome

By Mara Hvistendahl

Earth Day on the Highway
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Earth Day on the Highway

By Jon Alain Guzik and Alison Lakin

Battling Over Aging Nuclear Warheads
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Battling Over Aging Nuclear Warheads

By Allison Bond, NYU Scienceline

The Future of Legs
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The Future of Legs

By Paul Adams

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Robots to Fight Autism

By Val Wang

The Top 10 Computer Viruses
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The Top 10 Computer Viruses

By Stuart Fox

The Future of the Military — Perhaps
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The Future of the Military — Perhaps

By James Vlahos

Robots at War
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Robots at War

By Val Wang

Video: A Robot That Conducts Its Own Research
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Video: A Robot That Conducts Its Own Research

By Susannah F. Locke

Drag Net
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Drag Net

By Corey Binns

A New Type of Domain Name, A New Waste of Money
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A New Type of Domain Name, A New Waste of Money

By Tom Conlon

NASA’s Escape Pod
Science

NASA’s Escape Pod

By Dawn Stover

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
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Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

Who Protects The Internet?
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Who Protects The Internet?

By James Geary, World Map Courtesy TeleGeography

An iPhone with app icons visible.
DIY

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

By Dave Prochnow

Sail Like An Egyptian
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Sail Like An Egyptian

By Jeremy Hsu

Power From The People
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Power From The People

By Bruce Grierson

Extreme Engineering: The Tallest Skyscraper
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Extreme Engineering: The Tallest Skyscraper

By Rena Marie Pacella

Extreme Engineering: The Deepest Oil Well
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Extreme Engineering: The Deepest Oil Well

By Rena Marie Pacella

Build a Bridge
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Build a Bridge

By Adam Weiner

Seastead, Ahoy!
Environment

Seastead, Ahoy!

By Devanshu Patel

Science

Beam Me Up, Ytterbium

By Stuart Fox

How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People
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How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People

By Tom Conlon

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A Real Cloaking Device

By Catherine Schwanke

Three potted plants with homemade grow lights stuck into the dirt around them.
DIY

DIY grow lights

By Dave Prochnow

A temperature sensor built with Cypress PSoC FirstTouch kit.
DIY

Dot-to-dot programming

By Dave Prochnow

Control Anything With Your Cell Phone
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Control Anything With Your Cell Phone

By Abby Seiff

Sony Intros First Digicam with Web Browser
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Sony Intros First Digicam with Web Browser

By Sean Captain

Handheld Computer is First PC with Organic Screen
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Handheld Computer is First PC with Organic Screen

By Sean Captain

Boot Camp for Gaming Addicts, Gaming Addicts for Boot Camp
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Boot Camp for Gaming Addicts, Gaming Addicts for Boot Camp

By Jeremy Hsu

First Cell Phone With Built-In Projector?
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First Cell Phone With Built-In Projector?

By Abby Seiff

A person holding a white iPod.
DIY

New music from an old iPod

By Laura Silver

Tunnel Vision
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Tunnel Vision

By

A person holding a Polyphemus demonstration and evaluation tool.
DIY

Polyphemus demonstration and evaluation kit

By Dave Prochnow

Show Me the Money
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Show Me the Money

By Amanda Schupak

Return of the Bodacious ‘Bots
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Return of the Bodacious ‘Bots

By Julia Wallace

Top 100 Innovations of 2008
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Top 100 Innovations of 2008

By Popular Science Team

A fully electric airplane, the ElectraFlyer-C, landing on a runway
DIY

A silent electric plane

By Amanda Schupak

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack and Armies of Robots)?
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Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack and Armies of Robots)?

By Stuart Fox

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack, and Robot Armies)?
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Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack, and Robot Armies)?

By Stuart Fox

A man in a white polo shirt standing near an overflowing dresser and looking angry because he can't find his eyeglass case.
DIY

This finder’s a keeper

By Dave Prochnow

Was That A Burger That Just Flashed By?…Mmm, I’m Hungry
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Was That A Burger That Just Flashed By?…Mmm, I’m Hungry

By Rachel Durfee

What Modifications Would I Need to Make to My Car So I Could Drive It On The Moon?
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What Modifications Would I Need to Make to My Car So I Could Drive It On The Moon?

By Stuart Fox

Compressed-Air Cars Planned for Airport Test, US Launch
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Compressed-Air Cars Planned for Airport Test, US Launch

By Mike Spinelli

What You Need to Know About Voting Machines
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What You Need to Know About Voting Machines

By Jason Daley

Power Struggle
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Power Struggle

By Seth Fletcher

The Drug Pumper
Health

The Drug Pumper

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

The Personal Tilt-Rotor
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The Personal Tilt-Rotor

By Abe Streep

voting at the polls
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The Final Frontier : McCain and Obama Reach Toward the Stars

By Stuart Fox

The Flying Car Gets Real
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The Flying Car Gets Real

By Gregory Mone

A pink camouflage patterned replica tank sitting in a yard.
DIY

Pedal-powered Panzer

By Rena Marie Pacella

A packet of freeze-dried ice cream with a photo of an astronaut on the packaging.
Science

If it’s good enough for astronauts, it’s good enough for us

By Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

Technology

When Is Carbon an Electrical Conductor?

By Adam Weiner

A flip phone with the Twitter logo on its screen, and some speech bubbles that say "5:10, close draperies," "Sue: I went shopping," "CNN news update," and "Car MPG."
DIY

Ask a Geek: What can I do with Twitter?

By John Mahoney

A $40,000 Hyundai? Luxuriating in the 2009 Genesis Sedan
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A $40,000 Hyundai? Luxuriating in the 2009 Genesis Sedan

By Mike Spinelli

What Is “Digital Remastering”?
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What Is “Digital Remastering”?

By Molika Ashford

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

Origami Optics
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Origami Optics

By Annemarie Conte and Esther Haynes

Farming in the Sky
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Farming in the Sky

By Cliff Kuang