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How Safe Is Tupperware?
Environment

How Safe Is Tupperware?

Can plastic food-storage containers leach hormone-disrupting chemicals into your leftovers?

Fancy Pants May Prevent Falls
Health

Fancy Pants May Prevent Falls

A new pair of high-tech pants monitors the wearer's joints

Mapping Disease Data, Collaboratively
Health

Mapping Disease Data, Collaboratively

HealthMap has a master plan to track diseases worldwide -- and you can help

The Fastest Internet Ever
Technology

The Fastest Internet Ever

Say goodbye to slow downloads: Australian scientists develop chip that makes Internet 60 times faster

Why is it So Hard to Wake Up in the Morning?
Science

Why is it So Hard to Wake Up in the Morning?

Our FYI experts tackle your burning questions . . . with the power of science!

Our Future Health: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Environment

Our Future Health: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

As our planet heats up and gas prices creep higher, prepare for some unusual consequences

Living Fossils
Evolution

Living Fossils

These mysterious creatures exist today more or less unevolved from the forms they had hundreds of millions of years ago

Pectin: not just for jelly
Projects

Pectin: not just for jelly

The kitchen alchemists unleash the power of a familiar plant-derived edible gel.

The Military’s Mystery Machine
Military

The Military’s Mystery Machine

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, has been called a missile-defense tool and a mind-control device. The truth is a bit less ominous

The Great Wii Fit-Off: Gamer vs. Trainer
Science

The Great Wii Fit-Off: Gamer vs. Trainer

In the challenge of the century, PopSci pits a videogame-phobic sportswriter against a professional trainer. Whose Mii will reign supreme?

Poise and Luxury on the Track
Technology

Poise and Luxury on the Track

The freshened 2009 Audi A4 brings smart tuning and luxury touches to the table to compete with genre stalwarts BMW and Lexus

Natural-Gas-Powered Cars Fetching Big Bucks Online
Technology

Natural-Gas-Powered Cars Fetching Big Bucks Online

A PopSci contributor's experiment with a Honda Civic GX natural gas vehicle turns into a high-return investment on eBay

Deepest-Dwelling Life Forms Found
Environment

Deepest-Dwelling Life Forms Found

Scientists have found the most extreme single-celled Archaea yet, subsisting on methane nearly three miles below the surface

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Technology

The Biggest Boom in the Universe

With the discovery of a bright, long-lived supernova, scientists believe they have found a spectacular new way for stars to die

Beyond the Male “Pill”
Science

Beyond the Male “Pill”

From remote-control key fobs to ultrasound, male contraception goes high tech

Big-Ticket Beaters
Technology

Big-Ticket Beaters

With gas prices going through the roof, yesterday's jalopy could be today's blue-chip used ride

The Commercials Commerce
Internet

The Commercials Commerce

Or, how the Grouse learned to quit blocking ads and embrace the new world order

Of Locust Swarms and Cannibals
Environment

Of Locust Swarms and Cannibals

A fearsome plague has an even darker origin

Samsung, LG Unite on Mobile Digital TV Standard
Gear

Samsung, LG Unite on Mobile Digital TV Standard

Couch surfing from your bucket seat in 2009?

The Zero-Emissions One-Wheeled Motorcycle
Motorcycles

The Zero-Emissions One-Wheeled Motorcycle

The Uno accelerates with a simple lean and turns like a street bike on side-by-side wheels