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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.

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.

Two angles on the world's most dangerous high-altitude, high-tech daredevil stunt.

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.

This test plane for ultra-stealthy technology flew many times in total "black project" secrecy. Bill Sweetman analyzes the machine -- and the unveiling.

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.

Old tech & new materials intricately combined for insane speed: the ingenuity of the top fuel dragster.

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

Lives often hang on Palenik's precise identification of a fiber or fleck of metal. In his workday, there's no room for error.

If you cheat on your spouse, you can't yet plead biochemistry in divorce court. But rodent-brain research sheds light on why some lovers stay, some stray.