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Science Confirms the Obvious!
Technology

Science Confirms the Obvious!

By Laura Allen

Attack at the Speed of Light
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Attack at the Speed of Light

By Noah Shachtman

John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine
Technology

John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine

By Jonathon Keats

The inside of a cable box.
DIY

Hack your cable box

By Mike Haney

The Windows key on a black keyboard.
DIY

Windows rehab 101

By Dan Tynan

A person using an iPhone to take a photo of a brick building.
DIY

The DIY digital photo frame

By Mike Haney

Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears
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Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears

By Michael Behar

Spirit Down
Technology

Spirit Down

By Popular Science Team

Left: a networked front door camera. Right: a person using a cell phone to look at a remote feed of a person delivering pizza to their home.
DIY

Watch your front door from anywhere

By Paul Wallich

Comet dust lodged inside Stardust s foam-filled collector awaits study
Technology

Dust Busters

By Dawn Stover

DOG OF WAR
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The Army’s Robot Sherpa

By Preston Lerner

Perception: Rosie. Reality: Roomba
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Perception: Rosie. Reality: Roomba

By Larry Smith

Cormorant Spy Plane Concept
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The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane

By Bill Sweetman

X-Racers, Start Your Rockets!
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X-Racers, Start Your Rockets!

By Michael Belfiore

The Flying Luxury Hotel
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The Flying Luxury Hotel

By Joshua Tompkins

5 Bold Ideas For A Hurricane-Proof New Orleans
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5 Bold Ideas For A Hurricane-Proof New Orleans

By Michael Behar

Robots Go to War
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Robots Go to War

By Preston Lerner

A man in a green suit riding a rocket bike.
Technology

A real rocket bike

By Michael Belfiore

A tungsten lightbulb burning in a lab, with helium pumped into the makeshift bulb.
DIY

Make your own lightbulb

By Theodore Gray

A Linux laptop next to a kegerator.
DIY

The Linux-powered keg fridge

By Paul Wallich

Can We Stop Storms?
Environment

Can We Stop Storms?

By Michael Behar

Michelin Tweel
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Michelin Tweel

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The Turbo- and Supercharged Car
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The Turbo- and Supercharged Car

By Matthew Phenix

Notes from the 2005 Pop!Tech Conference, Camden, Maine
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Notes from the 2005 Pop!Tech Conference, Camden, Maine

By Michael Moyer

Wobulation
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Wobulation

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Live Reports from the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge
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Live Reports from the 2005 Darpa Grand Challenge

By Bjorn Carey and Elizabeth Svoboda

My Wagon Can Beat Your Porsche!
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My Wagon Can Beat Your Porsche!

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Darpa's blue team making tweaks to the Ghostrider
Technology

PopSci’s Darpa Grand Challenge Preview

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Can Digital Photos Be Trusted?
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Can Digital Photos Be Trusted?

By Steve Casimiro

Fish-Inspired Car
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Fish-Inspired Car

By Matthew Phenix

Will We Merge With Machines?
Technology

Will We Merge With Machines?

By Siri Steiner, with additional reporting Nicole Dyer, Jenny Everett and Martha Harbison

The Science of Stealth
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The Science of Stealth

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Film Review: Stealth

By Eric Adams

A Chat with Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon
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A Chat with Indy 500 Winner Dan Wheldon

By

No Engine Required
Technology

No Engine Required

By Preston Lerner

A group of people with different skin colors putting sticky notes with words on them into the shape of a mouse pointer.
DIY

Ask a Geek: What is tagging?

By Merlin Mann

Is this the future of air combat?
Technology

Is this the future of air combat?

By

Intergalactic Communications
Science

Intergalactic Communications

By

The Holographic Television
Technology

The Holographic Television

By Johnathan Keats

The Bionic Eye
Technology

The Bionic Eye

By Michael Stroph

Technology

Vex Robotics Design System’s Inventor’s Guide

By Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

A DIY WiFi antenna template.
DIY

Ask a Geek: What’s the best DIY antenna for extending my WiFi network?

By Scott Fullam

I Attended This Hacker Conference and All I Got Was All the Data on Your Hard Drive
Technology

I Attended This Hacker Conference and All I Got Was All the Data on Your Hard Drive

By Robin Mejia

A person opening a large photo album that's also a computer screen. Illustration.
DIY

Share your shots

By Mikkel Aaland

Technology

Can Terrorists Build the Bomb?

By Michael Crowley

Jay Carter, Jr.
Technology

Jay Carter, Jr.

By Jeff Wise

George Bye
Technology

George Bye

By Jeff Wise

A movie theater marquee connected to a house with a film reel outside feeding through the house's second-story window.
DIY

Rent flicks on the couch

By Noah Robischon

A jet-powered outhouse. Diagram.
DIY

The speeding outhouse

By Jeff Wise

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You
Technology

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You

By Michael Rosenwald

Segway’s Next Thingamajig
Technology

Segway’s Next Thingamajig

By Jenny Everett

The New Right Stuff
Technology

The New Right Stuff

By Eric Adams

The Quiet Demise of the Cuties and the Yo-Yos
Technology

The Quiet Demise of the Cuties and the Yo-Yos

By Stephan Wilkinson

A short-haired man in a blue shirt putting a CD into a computer's disk drive. Illustration.
DIY

Is Linux ready for you?

By John R. Quain

Speed: Formula None
Technology

Speed: Formula None

By Preston Lerner

BMW's Raymond Freymann posing in front of a painting of a traffic system
Technology

Intelligence: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile

By Paul Horrell

Design: The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car
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Design: The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car

By Jessie Scanlon

Obsession: Mr. Singh’s Search for the Holy Grail
Technology

Obsession: Mr. Singh’s Search for the Holy Grail

By Charles Graeber

The Amazing Rusting Aluminum
Technology

The Amazing Rusting Aluminum

By Theodore Gray

Win Reno, Go Supersonic
Technology

Win Reno, Go Supersonic

By Jeff Wise

Wingtip to Wingtip at 45O mph! 3O Feet Above the Ground! Sideways!
Technology

Wingtip to Wingtip at 45O mph! 3O Feet Above the Ground! Sideways!

By Carl Hoffman

F-5E aircraft in flight
Technology

Whooshhh!

By Bill Sweetman

Project Porsche
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Project Porsche

By Stephan Wilkinson

Soldier of the Future
Technology

Soldier of the Future

By Gregory Mone

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