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In the May 1930 issue of Popular Science, Thomas Elway proposed a very imaginative take on life on Mars.

Catastrophic natural and climate related disasters continue to rise, making the National Guard's work more dangerous and difficult.

The trick behind this new system is steer-by-wire tech. Here's what that means.

Eighteen mirror segments on NASA's newest space telescope worked in unison to take this deep field image.

A team of scientists in China proposed a new way to harvest useful resources on the moon.

Old dongle, new tricks.

Neural-Fly steers a drone through all kinds of wind, thanks to artificial intelligence and just 12 minutes of training.

It's time to flip the switch.

Trans youth almost never 'detransition' in the first several years after a social transition.

Slow and steady is the right approach.

Research shows that screening for patients' eligibility based on their medical history instead of in-person pelvic exams or ultrasounds is just as safe.

Communities sustainably harvested oyster reefs for thousands of years. Then colonization came along.

Here's why Rocket Lab attempted the tricky move with a falling rocket stage, and how the maneuver works.

Robot chefs are becoming more common, but their ability to taste is undercooked.

Trick your brain into putting down the device.

India has logged the hottest spring on record in a century.

Remember: The journey is the destination.

Imperfect but important, the seminal lecture on the origins of disease appeared in the 1883 issue of Popular Science Monthly.

Machines don't always understand what we want from them. Can new language models teach them to read between the lines?

A 2019 marine heat wave in Hawaii triggered a mass bleaching event, but scientists identified coral havens that had fewer casualties.