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It's an ultrafast killing machine with bleeding-edge aerodynamics. Not a pet.

The White House backs a remarkable boost in space-based war technology. Here's the blueprint.

Genetics: The moistness of your earwax is controlled by a single gene—and that may be more important than you think.

The polygraph, though used in hiring, marital disputes, and possibly even anti-terror investigations, is flawed. Now scientists are looking deep within the brain to devise ways to detect deception at its source.

Inventors long promised that a cheap, easy-to-fly helicopter was nigh. Can Woody Norris finally bring one to market?

Attention: Hollywood, Wall Street & Washington. Here's the real Power List, and you're not on it.

To maintain accuracy and realism, producers of the film sought out military and government officials to advise them.

You can buy a MiG if you have the jack, but a Czech trainer is the jet to love.

The Goal: Computers millions of times faster. The research into single-molecule transistors, DNA strands, and quantum effects provides tantalizing clues.

Players love the tech, but pro and amateur organizations can hardly keep up with the new materials and radical designs that have rewired and sometimes hot-wired sports.

"Go Somewhere" produced a large volume of mail and vigorous online debate about the future and cost of NASA. Here are more highlights.

Lint is composed of tiny bits of fabric fibers that are shed from the edges of our garments.

What's it like to grow up with a mother who is a distinguished physicist and the sister of one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century? In the month of Mother's Day, Popular Science News Editor Charles Hirshberg remembers.

This is the engine, fuel tank, and transmission of a revolutionary new kind of car. In this feature, we offer a first peek at the cool designs it makes possible.

Our eyes only see objects by processing light waves reflected off the object or absorbed by it.

All organisms, including humans, have the ability to regenerate something in the body. But the process is much more developed in lower organisms.

Society has been fighting the plague of addictions without knowing how drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol hot-wire the brain's pleasure response. Now researchers may be closing in on a magic bullet.

In this intimate interview, hear insights about Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance voyage as only a devoted granddaughter can have them.

Seven ideas that will correct NASA's trajectory and get Americans to love the space program again

Scientists tell us it's technically possible. Here's a how-to guide for the ambitious tinkerer.