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Birth Control Pills Shown to Alter Structure of Women’s Brains
Medicine

Birth Control Pills Shown to Alter Structure of Women’s Brains

A new study explores the surprising cognitive effects of contraception

Odds of Alien Life on Newly Spotted Exoplanet Are “100 Percent” Says Its Discoverer
Exoplanets

Odds of Alien Life on Newly Spotted Exoplanet Are “100 Percent” Says Its Discoverer

The Most Ambitious Weather Experiment: a 1,000-Square-Mile Tornado Trap
Drones

The Most Ambitious Weather Experiment: a 1,000-Square-Mile Tornado Trap

How 140 scientists look inside the world's most dangerous weather

The Craziest Japanese Concept Cars, 1969-2009
Concept Cars

The Craziest Japanese Concept Cars, 1969-2009

New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA
Space Telescope

New Space Telescope Relies on Never-Before-Manufactured Material; No Problem, Says NASA

Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants
Agriculture

Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants

Listen: Microscopic Instrument Produces Tones Humans Can Hear
Technology

Listen: Microscopic Instrument Produces Tones Humans Can Hear

Video: I Float in Zero Gravity
Aviation

Video: I Float in Zero Gravity

Weightless on the "vomit comet," along with a batch of middle-school science projects

This Year’s MacArthur Fellowship Grants: Meet the New Class of Science Geniuses
Announcements

This Year’s MacArthur Fellowship Grants: Meet the New Class of Science Geniuses

Former Air Force Officers Claim UFOs Visited Bases, Tampered With Nukes
Air Force

Former Air Force Officers Claim UFOs Visited Bases, Tampered With Nukes

Pedal-Powered Shweeb Monorail System Wins $1.05 Million in Google Innovation  Contest
Vehicles

Pedal-Powered Shweeb Monorail System Wins $1.05 Million in Google Innovation Contest

Nuclear-Powered Ice-Breaking Merchant Ships Could Ply the Northwest Passage
Technology

Nuclear-Powered Ice-Breaking Merchant Ships Could Ply the Northwest Passage

Stretchable Sensor Mesh Could Act as Strong, Smart Skin for Planes, Cars and Robots
Technology

Stretchable Sensor Mesh Could Act as Strong, Smart Skin for Planes, Cars and Robots

In Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head Ages Nanoseconds Faster than Your Feet
Physics

In Test of Relativity Theory, Superaccurate Atomic Clocks Prove Your Head Ages Nanoseconds Faster than Your Feet

Relativity experiment is the most accurate yet

Archive Gallery: The Science of Prohibition, 1919-1933
Science

Archive Gallery: The Science of Prohibition, 1919-1933

At the dawn of Prohibition, the future of happy hour looked bleak, but PopSci's archives reveal that within every speakeasy resides a science lab, and within every bootlegger, an unlikely inventor or chemist

AT&T’s Satellite Smartphone Goes on Sale Next Week, Offering Coverage Where Network Can’t
Gear

AT&T’s Satellite Smartphone Goes on Sale Next Week, Offering Coverage Where Network Can’t

New Atomic-Laser Compass Determines Direction of Magnetic Fields Optically
Technology

New Atomic-Laser Compass Determines Direction of Magnetic Fields Optically

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power
Projects

Video: DIY Coilgun Turns Voltage into Kilojoule Projectile Power

This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption
Fish

This Week, FDA Considers Genetically Engineered Salmon for Human Consumption

Chainless Bicycle Uses Wire and Pulley System, Eliminating Grease and Increasing Cool Factor
Vehicles

Chainless Bicycle Uses Wire and Pulley System, Eliminating Grease and Increasing Cool Factor

Meet the Stringbike