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The 118 WallyPower is a wild, $24 million turbine-driven high-tech yacht that looks like it's built for special forces billionaires. Mission: Go fast, guzzle fuel, look scary.

At Bill Scott's anti-terrorist driving school, students learn to spin, shoot, and ram their way through any auto-borne attack.

Why a 145-pound man can outeat a former defensive tackle nicknamed "the fridge."

Or: Why Flying Makes You Feel Like a Rat in a Lab Cage

Popular Science brings 7 visionaries together to predict the trajectory of aviation in its second century.

Rally racers in super-modded street cars follow their own Cliffs Notes to navigate rocky dirt roads full of gullies and blind curves. The rawest form of racing is finally gaining traction in the U.S.

If you don't know how to handle a high-performance car, the local highway isn't the place to learn. Get thee to a car club.

When David Hanson set out to build a robotic head, he saw no reason not to make it look just like a human. Then he stumbled into the Uncanny Valley.

High-speed movie cameras can shoot up to 20 million frames in the blink of an eye. The world is a mighty interesting place in ultimate slo-mo.

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.

Already, smart unmanned subs are set to replace dolphins as undersea mine sniffers. Next tech: mine detonation, remote sleuthing and robotic combat.

The Osama tapes highlight a technical challenge: verifying the voice of the enemy.