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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.

Archaeologists argue that drought caused by climate variation played a major role in the decline and fall of Mayan civilization.

Like a lot of suds on the top of your beer pour? Scientists have found a gene for that.

Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.

Some methods that people have suggested for preventing, or stopping, a hurricane--and why they might not work

An open letter from PopSci to President Obama about science and the future

A disaster simulation that's a lot of fun.