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Did SARS start in space?

There may be no weirder tech-to-tech combat than the fight to build the world's most powerful sound system.

Is ex-Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen backing Rutan? More on the Silicon Valley connection

Finessing inherent instability is one of the joys of controlling many machines. Our man gets wet to prove the point.

In serious driving, one car's big brakes can outmaneuver another car's bigger engine.

Even if it's fixed, the disaster-prone Shuttle may not be allowed to fly as long as NASA requires. The agency's plans to replace it are in disarray. But there are concepts on the drawing board.

The battle over genetically modified food is over: Supercrops won. Now crops designed to yield drugs and vaccines have come close to slipping into our food supply. No one knows if they're safe, and everyone involved seems to have something to hide.

Post-9/11 laws protect Americans from the mishandling of potential bioterror agents. They could also slow down some vital medical research.

Geographic profiling pioneer Kim Rossmo has been likened to Sherlock Holmes; his Watson in the hunt for serial killers is a digital sidekick -- an algorithm he calls Rigel.

Our man was a Coast Guard swimmer in the 1980s. Oh, how the tech has changed.

The Air Force is readying the first airborne laser weapon, which could be used to intercept Scud missiles. Mark Farmer takes you inside the project.

Import tuners, once kid brothers to small-block chevys, have grown up.

World-beating skyscraper engineering isn't dead. Across the Pacific, new technology is feverishly being deployed to set records.

PopSci talks with the new reproductive technology watchdog.

Look up, but not way up: Boeing's massive cargo carrier would fly very, very low indeed. Here's how. Monster at 20 ft.

No antipiracy tech here. Just 5 supercool players.

Back when the U.S. and its allies fought enemies who had technological parity, or even superiority, an airplane engine was almost the undoing of England.

To an insect, air is as thick as oil. Michael Dickinson pursues the sticky question of how these creatures maneuver so flawlessly. The answers could spawn tiny new flying machines.

It's huge, it's green--and it may even happen.

New databases and digital techniques are broadening the kinds of evidence available to the crime scene investigator.