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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A fearsome plague has an even darker origin

Couch surfing from your bucket seat in 2009?

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

That scourge of the inbox turns 30. So how'd it all begin?

Ultra-swank seats will replace the usual economy class junk

A report suggests an Italian telecom company will be selling unlocked iPhones, without the mandatory service plan

A European research project aims for the "uncrashable" car

See how scientists are learning from the most common form of life on Earth to fight cancer, produce ethanol and maybe even grow crops on the moon

On the eve of the world championship of remote-control flight, an American financier, a three-star general, a jet engineer and the Air Force’s most powerful civilian have come together in Thailand to build the perfect fighting plane—at 1:5 scale

A rapidly executed reversal of one man's wrongful imprisonment demonstrates the the power of a wide net

With debate raging on whether biofuels are robbing the world's hungry of food, scientists and engineers at the first annual BioMass conference in Minneapolis say it ain't so

A notoriously imperfect standard of measurement gets a modern makeover