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One entry to an international design competition imagines a way to turn impromptu meals into standard recipes.

Because fake scientific journals weren't gnarly enough.

Peculiar portraits of championship chickens, by award-winning photographer Tamara Staples

How much Kobe Bryant and others make in a minute compared to a minimum wage worker.

Penis size works in combination with a couple other physical traits, a team of biologists found.

Tibetan nuns prove the physical effects of spiritual activity.

Living at 3,300 feet in one of the most inhospitable habitats on Earth, this fish has evolved in a very peculiar way.

A few new studies, including one meta-analysis, suggest brain games don't make you any better at anything but playing brain games.

Before becoming Britain's first (and only) female prime minister, Thatcher graduated from Oxford with a chemistry degree.

A new method can visualize with 60 percent accuracy what you're seeing while you sleep.

The Food and Drug Administration ordered to comply within 30 days

Salim Nasser's wheel design could dramatically reduce the repetitive-stress injuries that often plague manual wheelchair users.

You will burn. You will freeze. And the moon will explode. Four gruesome apocalypse scenarios from the September 1939 issue of Popular Science.

Surprisingly, yes.

It's easier than you might think.

But don't you wish you lived in "The Tadpole"?

Modern investigations are finding no evidence for arson in old cases.

Happy 160th birthday, Otis Elevator Company! Thanks for making modern cities possible. Here are the 9 coolest Otis elevator inventions from the Popular Science archive.