Staff Sergeant James Sides lost his right arm in an IED explosion in Afghanistan. Now he's the first patient in an FDA trial testing an implantable, muscle-connected controller for prosthetics.
License plate-reading cameras in London allowed civil engineers to make some amazing calculations for commuters.
Researchers had assumed all humans were just bad at describing odors, but it turns out that's a cultural problem, not a biological one.
The human brain won't be surpassed by computers any time soon.
It's as if eating an undercooked hamburger could transform a human hardcore partier into a hermit.
Drive more than 500 miles on two gallons of fuel
India celebrates three years since its last recorded polio case today, marking an anniversary that could mean the disease is no longer endemic to Southeast Asia.
There were rumors that the African tigerfish could catch and eat flying birds, but it hadn't been proven until now.
Prolonged exposure to high concentrations of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol can cause headaches, eye and skin irritation, and difficulty breathing.
The skeleton represents "perhaps the best-preserved remains of an ancient human uncovered in the past 40 years."
Fifty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general first declared that smoking tobacco causes lung cancer. Popular Science readers could have known that was coming.
A survey of the past year's papers demonstrates that the science is in on global warming.
Antarctic emperor penguins may be adapting to diminishing sea ice by scaling towering coastal glaciers to lay their eggs.
The technology is getting there, but the law is the real obstacle.
The glue—which researchers showed is able to hold fast on live beating hearts—could be a gentler alternative to stitches.
