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NFL players have been accused of using deer antler spray, a banned performance enhancer with a bizarre name.

Given evolution’s trajectory, we will almost certainly transform into augmented versions of our current selves. The big question now is, can we survive long enough to become the next humans?

Dr. Oz dispatches advice to one of the biggest audiences in the country. A New Yorker profile asks: Why is so much of that advice bunk?

A simple how-to for any espresso drink you could want

Fire up the pressure cooker and emulsify the cheese: it's almost game time!

In a new study, iron-oxidizing microbes give fresh meaning to the phrase "living off the grid," and provide fresh hope as a potential biofuel.

Researchers are still at odds over what mechanisms really lend us our olfactory sense.

There's no scientific evidence to support the conventional wisdom that women wounded in combat would destroy male soldiers' morale and performance.

We're less motivated to do something challenging if it benefits the common good.

Weather can transport microbes long distances, and they can promote the formation of ice and cloud droplets.

A new study argues a cure for syphilis caused the advent of modern sexuality, not the pill.

To overcome the physical distance between our New York offices and our editor in chief--who lives and works on the West Coast--Popular Science is exploring the cutting edge of telepresence technologies.

Cast your own bogus bullion.

Extreme storms such as Hurricane Sandy have pushed the U.S. electrical grid to its breaking point. The technology exists to keep the lights on—we just need to implement it.

If the biggest 350,000 web sites on the internet were real places, this is what the map would look like

Brett Gooden 's Spacesuit: A History through Fact and Fiction traces the evolution of early spacewear.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the beer's flavor.

How fish adapt to a warming world is top of mind for governments eager to profit off of a robust fishing industry. Will climate change rule in their favor?

And it is not vulnerable to evolved resistance.

It's not a cure, but researchers hope inserting a few genes into T cell receptors can keep HIV cells at bay.