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Life Gets a Little Easier for Reindeer, Tsunami-Hit Lands
Environment

Life Gets a Little Easier for Reindeer, Tsunami-Hit Lands

Technology helps find grazing areas, predict waves

How Long Would it Take Piranhas to Eat a Person?
Ask Us Anything

How Long Would it Take Piranhas to Eat a Person?

Is the fish's deadly rep justified?

Lighters Show Fuel Supply
Gear

Lighters Show Fuel Supply

Tired of trying to coax flame from an empty lighter? The end is in sight

An East Antarctic Odyssey: The Final Segment
Environment

An East Antarctic Odyssey: The Final Segment

The team returns to the land of minus-50 temperatures and hurricane-force winds

A Fashion Geek Release Party
Science

A Fashion Geek Release Party

Is that a circuit in your pocket, or are you just really into my conductive threads?

NASA’s Escape Pod
NASA

NASA’s Escape Pod

The astronauts’ variation on the ejection seat sends them hurtling a mile away from danger in a matter of seconds

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
Robots

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

Popular Science attends New York's high-school robot showdown and sees celebrities, breakdowns, and mechanical lunacy.

Games Without the Console
Technology

Games Without the Console

OnLive delivers high-powered games over the Internet to TVs and PCs

Gear

A Picture Worth a Thousand Pictures

GigaPan takes hundreds of pictures, for a zoom-in-able panorama shot, or a killer game of Where's Waldo

Write Your Name on the Moon
NASA

Write Your Name on the Moon

New software from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gives you control of a fleet of satellites, to harvest data or just play around

Sound Becomes Light
Science

Sound Becomes Light

New research confirms a theory: high-frequency acoustic waves can be converted to light

The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases
Global Warming

The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases

PopSci.com's guide to the vapors that are making Earth more toasty

Happy Birthday, Web!
Technology

Happy Birthday, Web!

How the World Wide Web has changed science

An iPhone with app icons visible.
Projects

How to make an iPhone app: part 2

Building a great app: that’s the objective, see?

A Lunar Rocket Designed To Crash
Moons

A Lunar Rocket Designed To Crash

For NASA's latest moon launch, violent self-destruction will mean success

The New Smart Grid: 21st Century Tech for the 21st Century
Environment

The New Smart Grid: 21st Century Tech for the 21st Century

The new smart grid, part 2: Today’s electrical grid is based on 19th century thinking. The growing chorus for building a new smart grid is simply a call to modernize. Here’s how

Speeding Past the Competition
Science

Speeding Past the Competition

A new sensor from BERU brings professional car-racing teams up to speed on tire conditions like no sensor has before

The Unusual Suspects
Nutrition

The Unusual Suspects

Researchers are uncovering some pretty strange culprits behind the obesity epidemic—everything from air-conditioning to infectious love handles

The PopSci Movie Science Awards
Science

The PopSci Movie Science Awards

Which 2008 blockbuster's science is the best?

Build a Bridge
Technology

Build a Bridge

Our latest online game puts lives in your hands. How good an engineer are you?