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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

A lawsuit over the death of a 14-year-old girl raises new questions about how much caffeine is too much--and what other nefarious factors might come into play.

A visualized look inside a storm. How they start, and the ways we measure how bad they get.

Roads that light themselves, paint that warns you about icy conditions, and more from the zany Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde

Young children nearly universally seem to think that closing or covering their eyes makes them invisible to others. Cambridge researchers are finding out why.

"There's almost no way to stop [the study] from being spun into the 'war against women' story," coauthor Vladas Griskevicius says. Is he right, or was the study the problem?

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