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Chengdu Tianfu District Great City is supposed to be a prototype that can be replicated elsewhere throughout China.

NASA's chief of Mars exploration suggests that a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s or 2040s could return the robotic relic to Earth.

A Berkeley study searches for the link between cat color and cat personality.

Are you a bleeding-heart liberal? A rigid right-winger? Blame your parents!

A new study uncovers the two nerve centers responsible for face recognition--and the lack thereof.

A boxer weighs in.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight endeavor, usually quite secretive about its West Texas operations, gives us a peek at its latest test launch.

From the PopSci archives: These inventions may have silenced snores, but they were totally evil.

Is our Navy really the smallest it's been since 1916? And what does that mean, anyway?

Humans can predict the future when we have some evidence--like clouds and the smell of rain hinting at a storm. But can we anticipate future events without sensory clues?

Mars monikers follow a careful set of rules--but that doesn't mean their Earthbound sister cities can't have a little fun. Just ask the Tartan Martians.

Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?

Raw food takes too long to digest and offers too few calories to grow a human brain. Cooking it is the key.

‘Hypersexual disorder’ might be included in the updated mental health bible, but first scientists have to define it. UCLA scientists have some suggestions.

Coaxing T cells to combat genital herpes at the source is good. Talking them into blocking HIV is even better.

The six scientists and one ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison after prosecutors said they assured the public there was a low chance of disaster.

The quest for human-powered flight

The yeast S. cerevisiae is instrumental in brewing ale. But did you know that it's also instrumental in helping scientists better understand cells?

Hint: It's a good thing not everyone lives like an American.