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Two paper printed circuit board patterns.
DIY

pPCBs (paper printed circuit boards)

By Dave Prochnow

Kitchen-Counter Lab
Science

Kitchen-Counter Lab

By Anne Wootton and AbSeiff

Sputnik
Technology

Fifty Years Later, Looking Back at the Dawn of the Space Race

By John Mahoney

A white RC Hummer with a fuel cell on top.
Technology

Fast Cars – Cops = Big Fun

By Sean Captain

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Technology

Technological Breakthrough or Alchemy?

By Gregory Mone

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Aviation

Aviation Adventurer Steve Fossett Reported Missing

By popsci

The Fastest Final Exam on Earth
Technology

The Fastest Final Exam on Earth

By Mike Spinelli

A wiring diagram for an OnStar GPS hack.
DIY

Raising GPS from the dead

By Dave Prochnow

Five Labs That Make Going to Class the Best Part of College
Environment

Five Labs That Make Going to Class the Best Part of College

By Annalee Newitz

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Technology

The Electric Shaver That Knocks You Out

By Gregory Mone

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Security

The Vomit-Inducing Flashlight

By Gregory Mone

The blue flame of a blowtorch heating up a block of quicklime.
DIY

Gray Matter: How to make a lamp out of lime

By Theodore Gray

Apple products copied
Technology

China’s iClone

By Dan Koeppel

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Technology

Science Porn on YouTube

By Gregory Mone

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Technology

“Geckel”: Superglue From Geckos and Mussels

By Dawn Stover

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Technology

Banning Skeletons in Chinese Games

By Gregory Mone

Autonomous Flying Ambulances Could Save Troops
Technology

Autonomous Flying Ambulances Could Save Troops

By David Axe

A DIY solar-powered electronics charger.
DIY

The DIY solar charger

By Dave Prochnow

The interior parts of a DIY vertical wind turbine. Illustration.
DIY

Going with the wind

By Doug Cantor

Mod your keyboard, steampunk style
DIY

Mod your keyboard, steampunk style

By Doug Cantor

Shaun Baker in a jet-powered kayak on a river.
DIY

The jet kayak

By Gregory Mone

A small processor running Linux.
Computers

The $72 PC

By Dave Prochnow

Anatomy of a Solar Storm
Technology

Anatomy of a Solar Storm

By Rena Marie Pacella

INVENTION AWARDS A Green Brick
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS A Green Brick

By Lauren Aaronson

INVENTION AWARDS Six Strokes of Genius
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS Six Strokes of Genius

By Dan Carney

How A New Breed of Mouse Works
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS A New Breed of Mouse

By

INVENTION AWARDS A Big Ball of Connectivity
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS A Big Ball of Connectivity

By Tom Clynes

How the flying bet Works
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS The Flying Belt

By Gregory Mone

How The New Velcro Works
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS The New Velcro

By Gregory Mone

How A Levitating Arrow Rest Works
Technology

INVENTION AWARDS A Levitating Arrow Rest

By Melissa A. Calderone

The Future Then: Auto Edition
Technology

The Future Then: Auto Edition

By AbSeiff

A dashboard-mounted computer in a car.
DIY

A DIY dashtop computer

By Damien Stolarz

Atari’s Lexus Test Drive: Xbox for Gen X
Technology

Atari’s Lexus Test Drive: Xbox for Gen X

By Eric Adams

The 2007 New York International Auto Show
Technology

The 2007 New York International Auto Show

By Eric Adams

A homemade nuclear reactor.
DIY

Teen builds basement nuclear reactor

By Gregory Mone

How 2.0 Blog against a black background.
DIY

14 things geeks can teach the world

By John Mahoney

Game on
DIY

Game on

By Mike Haney

A white corded phone and answering machine.
DIY

H.20 challenge: Save a lost message

By Mike Haney

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished
Robots

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished

By Megan Miller

All Sonic, No Boom
Technology

All Sonic, No Boom

By Eric Hagerman

Coasting to Safety
Technology

Coasting to Safety

By Stephen Handelman

The Future of Personal Security
Technology

The Future of Personal Security

By Gregory Mone and Elizabeth Svoboda. Illustrations Graham Murdoch

Cop Tech 2010
Aviation

Cop Tech 2010

By Reinhard Kargl

Five drinking glasses filled with clear liquid on top and blue liquid on the bottom, linked together to create a gravity-cell battery.
DIY

Gray Matter: A tall glass of juice

By Theodore Gray

A DIY wall-mounted laptop.
DIY

The wall-mounted PC

By Popular Science Team

Martian equator
Technology

Hijacking the Red Planet

By Will Snyder

Best of What’s New 2006
Best of What's New

Best of What’s New 2006

By

The 2007 North American International Auto Show
Technology

The 2007 North American International Auto Show

By Eric Adams

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Technology

Digging Under the Great Firewall of China

By Annalee Newitz

Semper Fly: Marines in Space
Military

Semper Fly: Marines in Space

By David Axe

A diagram showing how to build a touchless iPod remote.
DIY

The touchless iPod remote

By Dave Prochnow

A rocket-powered belt sander with a skull on it.
DIY

The craziest race

By Gregory Mone

Skyguard system taking out mortar rounds
Technology

Missile-Proofing Runways

By Stephen Handelman

Long-Term Test: A Natural-Gas Guzzler
Hybrid Cars

Long-Term Test: A Natural-Gas Guzzler

By Eric Adams and the PopSci Staff

The Invisible Warship
Military

The Invisible Warship

By Gregory Mone

grow-your-own treehouse
Technology

Grow Your Second Home

By Gregory Mone

Designer Trevor Harris
Technology

Going Nowhere Fast

By Preston Lerner

A diagram for making a cellphone "cantenna."
DIY

Make a cell ‘cantenna’

By Mike Outmesguine

Buy This Flying Car
Technology

Buy This Flying Car

By Eric Adams

Hydrogen-Bombing Down the Track
Technology

Hydrogen-Bombing Down the Track

By Joe Brown

The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51
Aviation

The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51

By Bill Sweetman

A WowWee Roboraptor with a flame coming out of its mouth to toast some charred marshmallows.
DIY

A fire-breathing bot

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.
DIY

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

U.S. Open Instant Replay: Total Accuracy, Major Fun
Robots

U.S. Open Instant Replay: Total Accuracy, Major Fun

By Jackson Lynch

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