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In the early 1900s, radioactive water was all the rage. Hard to believe smart people could fall for such twaddle--right?

Supersonic business jets will use aerodynamic shaping to minimize sonic booms. Don't be alarmed by the lack of windows: Cameras will send exterior images to the cockpit and cabin.

The 2004 Popsci Design Competition

How do you completely disassemble a classic sports car and rebuild it better than new? You take a deep breath and dive in.

Could sudden climate change wreak independence day-level havoc? The director of The Day After Tomorrow let us run his new disaster flick by the experts. Uh-oh.

It's called body packing, it's dangerous and gross, and new technology makes gut-based drug smuggling harder to spot.

Richard Stroud is the nation's chief medical examiner for wildlife, and he's getting a state-of-the-art lab. Poachers beware.

Police sketches from eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. The question is, Will "DNA sketches" be any better?

In the dark and chatty world of avatars and assumed identities, this cybercop is a virtual Sybil, trolling for creeps and thieves.

The killing of a young child led investigators to this problem: Can the single-celled life in water tell where the water is from?

Blood flies, and leaves a tale. But it takes an expert like Paulette Sutton to sort truth from fiction in spatter language.

GE's Evolution does 0-60 in 45 seconds, unloaded. Braking is a different story: A full-on panic stop takes half a mile.

Space-launched darts that strike like meteors

How much has technology really changed our daily lives? We asked a highly wired writer to spend 10 days in the big city living with the technology of 50 years ago. No Web, no cell, no laptop, no ATM card.

We asked a writer to notice and decode the science claims he heard on a typical day. they averaged one every 10 minutes. And they weren’t very scientific.

999 Dollars for Knowing Where to Bang

Days with Two Sunrises and Your Dinner in a Cup

With the flood of in-car GPS navigation systems available today, you'll never have to ask for directions again.

...and other rallying cries from the fringes of the final frontier.

Bogus science and health claims are rampant--and these self-styled vigilantes are after the perps.