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Kettering Aerial Torpedo, An Unmanned Biplane Bomb
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ISIS video shows off ‘new’ weapons based on old tech

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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Court ruling means you no longer have to register consumer drones with the FAA

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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DARPA Wants Airborne Aircraft Carriers

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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DIY

How to keep your Facebook account safe and secure

By David Nield

Inside The Zumwalt Destroyer
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Inside The Zumwalt Destroyer

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Should Tanks Be More Like iPhones?
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Should Tanks Be More Like iPhones?

By Kelsey D. Atherton

S-300 subsonic drones at the fifth China UAV Show & Conference
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The Week In Drones: Fireworks, Found Poetry, Chinese Test Targets, And More

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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Iconic Cold War Spyplane May Get A Drone Makeover

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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The Smell of War

By James Vlahos

The World’s Spookiest Weapons
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The World’s Spookiest Weapons

By Matt Ransford

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Archive Gallery: PopSci Spies on the Soviet Union

By Denise Ngo

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What Weapons Would China Use In World War III?

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Your Android phone may soon be able to start your car
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Your Android phone may soon be able to start your car

By Rob Stumpf

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The Anonymity Experiment

By Catherine Price

How the war in Afghanistan revealed an evolving drone fleet’s mettle—and shortcomings
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How the war in Afghanistan revealed an evolving drone fleet’s mettle—and shortcomings

By Wesley Morgan

Sky Saker H300 NORINCO China helicopter drone on an exhibition in Dubai
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China has a New Armed Drone Helicopter

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Military vehicle FLYPmode on a parking lot
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How The First Crowdsourced Military Vehicle Can Remake the Future of Defense Manufacturing

By Rebecca Boyle

The Army’s launching drones from dune buggies. Here’s why.
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The Army’s launching drones from dune buggies. Here’s why.

By Kelsey D. Atherton

You Built What? A Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus
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You Built What? A Motorized Easy Chair to Roar Around Campus

By Gregory Mone

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The most impressive aerospace innovations of 2019

By Neel V. Patel and Rob Verger

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Health

Inside the controversial new surgery to transplant human wombs

By Erin Biba

J-20 Zhuhai 2016 China Stealth Fighter
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Beyond The J-20: The Many Planes Of China

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

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Meet the armored soldiers and nuclear artillery of a future war that never was

By Kelsey D. Atherton

illustrated modern ejection seat & plane emergency evacuation
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Here’s how people jumped out of planes decades ago—and eject from them today

By Rob Verger

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Health

Regardless of COVID-19’s origins, experts say it’s time to tighten up biosecurity lab protocols

By Philip Kiefer

security flaws in today's $100 bill
Technology

Building Better Money

By Elizabeth Svoboda

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The Global Race To Build The Fastest Supercomputer

By Clay Dillow

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How Microsoft’s Machine Learning Is Breaking The Global Language Barrier

By Clay Dillow

Inside America’s Next Spyplane
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Inside America’s Next Spyplane

By Clay Dillow

Icon's A5
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We Test-Flew Icon’s A5, The Affordable-ish Personal Airplane For Everyone

By Clay Dillow

This company is retrofitting airplanes to fly on missions with no pilots
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This company is retrofitting airplanes to fly on missions with no pilots

By Rob Verger

Watch this French laser zap drones out of the sky
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Watch this French laser zap drones out of the sky

By Christina Mackenzie

The inside of a backpack that's also a DIY WiFi hotspot.
Environment

Be your own hotspot

By Mike Outmesguine

Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 2: Water
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Renovating American Infrastructure, Step 2: Water

By Adam M. Bright

Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance
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Buying MGM may only be the beginning of Amazon’s content dominance

By Rob Verger

Hugh Herr On The Future Of Bionics
Health

Hugh Herr On The Future Of Bionics

By Breanna Draxler

Lockheed A 12
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A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it.

By Sarah Scoles

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Seven Ways Technology Will Make The Mall Of The Future Not Suck

By Breanna Draxler

The 100 greatest innovations of 2018
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The 100 greatest innovations of 2018

By Popular Science Team

Even if you missed out on the Concorde, you may soon get a chance to fly in a supersonic airliner
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Even if you missed out on the Concorde, you may soon get a chance to fly in a supersonic airliner

By Eric Adams

You Can Help Redesign The Spaceship Buildings From ‘Men In Black’
Science

You Can Help Redesign The Spaceship Buildings From ‘Men In Black’

By Josh Hrala

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Technology

How aerial firefighters battle blazes from the skies

By Rob Verger

Google is using its deep learning tech to diagnose disease
Health

Google is using its deep learning tech to diagnose disease

By Sara Chodosh

Surprising stuff you can bring on a plane (without ticking off the TSA)
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Surprising stuff you can bring on a plane (without ticking off the TSA)

By Sara Chodosh

The future of the Air Force is fighter pilots leading drone swarms into battle
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The future of the Air Force is fighter pilots leading drone swarms into battle

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Autonomous X-47B Flies In Formation With Fighter Aircraft
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Autonomous X-47B Flies In Formation With Fighter Aircraft

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The X-47B
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I Am Warplane

By Clay Dillow

For Autonomous Robots, The School of Hard Knocks Is In Session
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For Autonomous Robots, The School of Hard Knocks Is In Session

By Erik Sofge

Hydra at the DRC
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Meet Hydra, The Coolest Robot Not Competing In The DARPA Robotics Challenge

By Erik Sofge

Survivors of America’s first atomic bomb test want their place in history
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Survivors of America’s first atomic bomb test want their place in history

By Kelsey D. Atherton

A line of yellow school buses.
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A Maryland school district switched to electric buses to save kids’ lungs. Can others follow?

By Emily Cerf

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25 best sites to buy Instagram followers (real followers)

By Thomas Moore/ReviewsXP

Why does NASA keep launching Wright brothers’ stuff into space?
Science

Why does NASA keep launching Wright brothers’ stuff into space?

By Leo DeLuca

Beihang Unmanned Cargo Drone
Technology

Meet China’s growing fleet of automated delivery drones

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

The Curious Genius Of Amar Bose
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The Curious Genius Of Amar Bose

By Tom Clynes

China ZKZM 500 Laser Rifle Weapon
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China’s destructive laser rifle has a half-mile range

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

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Environment

Why Fabien Cousteau Wants To Build An Underwater City

By Sarah Fecht

Justin Blair, a maker at FirstBuild, operates the Maxiem waterjet
Technology

Welcome To The Maker-Industrial Revolution

By Tom Foster

The NovoGen MMX Bioprinter
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How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue

By Steven Leckart

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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?

By Tom Foster

Affordable driverless cars could curb public transit
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Affordable driverless cars could curb public transit

By Shaena Montanari

How the burning heart of a jet engine functions without melting
Science

How the burning heart of a jet engine functions without melting

By Rob Verger

The Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric vehicle for truck lovers
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The Ford F-150 Lightning is an electric vehicle for truck lovers

By Rob Stumpf

3d printed heart
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How 3-D Printing Body Parts Will Revolutionize Medicine

By Steven Leckart

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