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It's a moment fraught with exquisite anticipation and dread–the moment when your car's true power is laid bare for all to see.

Last July, 9-year-old Alex Everett received his first shot of synthetic human growth hormone--an injection he will get every night for eight years. Alex is not sick--he is short. Should we be treating stature as a medical condition?

Souped-up rovers should boost extraterrestrial research.

No one knows how to stop it, but at least you can slow it down—the latest tech for protecting your inbox.

Don't let the old-fashioned lines of this beauty fool you: Half a million buys you a boat that's tech-packed and joystick-steered.

Needles that don't hurt.

How 2.0 wants you.

They look like lawnmowers on steroids, but superkarts can keep pace with million-dollar Ferraris--150 mph on the straights and crazy Gs in the turns. The best value in racing is starting to get respect.

Space architect Constance Adams spent seven years at NASA. Here's her prescription for fixing the place.

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.

With the rutan-designed globalflyer, these adventurers tackle "the first great aviation challenge of the new century." Technology: cutting-edge. Risks: gigantic.

Devices that harness brain or nerve impulses to help patients see, hear, move, and communicate are already available -- though for now they remain relatively primitive.

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.