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Because they sure look and smell alike.

Just because something is old doesn’t mean it isn’t still awesome!

Of the 2,500 Best of What’s New winners we’ve anointed since 1988, these are the innovations that have made the greatest impact and kept us safer, healthier, and (dare we way) happier than we could have ever been without them.

Tiny nanoparticles are a huge part of our lives, for better or for worse.

The creations of this London bartender are among the tastiest marriages of art and science. In his new book, he reveals some secrets.

With the release of a new feature film about the nation's 16th president, we revisit a 1957 PopSci article on Lincoln's heroic efforts to modernize the science of war.

Self-repairing computers! Electronic skin! Bat-wing planes! A look at the amazing stuff that's changing the world.

Today's total solar eclipse will graze northern Australia before casting its shadow across the Pacific Ocean. But you don't have to miss the show. Watch the event live from island-based video streams.

The Aston Martin DB5 that made its first James Bond cameo in 1964's Goldfinger gets bullet-ridden and blown up in the new movie Skyfall. Except not really.

Pepsi Special claims to block the body’s ability to absorb fat. How does that work?

A roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home

This material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam--but it's also really strong!

American supercomputers now make up half of the top 10 fastest machines on the planet.

Human skin is a hard system to emulate, but that hasn't stopped Stanford scientists from producing a touch-sensitive material that can heal itself at room temperature.

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We know diamonds are the hardest, but determining the softest stuff on the planet is complicated.

In the future, donuts.lol will be the highest-trafficked site on the internet. We will all visit it for donut lols.

The food experimenters who publish Cook's Illustrated have put together a cookbook featuring 50 kitchen science lessons every home cook should know. We put some to the test.

Make sure nobody will ever see your classified documents.

A new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrates Kubrick's pioneering embrace of cutting-edge technologies, from Steadicams to NASA satellite lenses.