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An animation by Northeastern University's LazerLab shows what's being donated, and where.

Looking around for methane in Gale Crater, Curiosity found a whole lot of nothing. But that doesn't dash hopes of finding evidence of life on Mars some day.

What do you need to rig an election? A basic knowledge of electronics and $30 worth of RadioShack gear, professional hacker Roger Johnston reveals. The good news: we can stop it.

Biocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and more.

Petroleum tanks damaged during the storm spilled an estimated quarter million gallons of oil into New Jersey waterways. Now crews are working around the clock to clean it up.

Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.

Scientists sequenced the barley genome recently. Will this make for better beer? Or are the implications more nuanced?

When spacecraft careen around Earth for a gravity boost, they mysteriously speed up, and physicists want to know why.

Brain scans find that the two modes are mutually exclusive.

Hurricane Sandy wasn't a "superstorm." Not because it wasn't a "super" "storm," but because "superstorm" is an imaginary scare-term that exists exclusively for shock value.

But it's just the anticipation--actually doing the math doesn't hurt.

The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock.

Bats are helpful insect eaters and providers of tequila, not just Halloween decorations. But their connection to the holiday is fitting.

Wondering what it was like in New York when Sandy made landfall? Popular Science senior editor Martha Harbison took to the streets (and now totally regrets it).

3:18 p.m.: 8.5 million homes are without power. That represents 7 percent of the U.S. population.

Oak Ridge National Labs has deployed what should be the world's fastest supercomputer when the world's petaflops are tabulated next month, and it is dedicated to open science.

Silicon can't keep up with our demand for smaller and faster chips, but IBM researchers may have found a way to continue accelerating chip performance with a whole new kind of transistor.

In a giant aquarium in Florida, scientists are creating 150 MPH hurricanes

It's tempting to link the nature of this week's "Frankenstorm" to human-caused climate change, but the scientific realities are nuanced. Here are five surprising takeaways.

From the PopSci archives, an audacious plot to knock out hurricanes