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Garden Hose: July 1955
Life Skills

Archive Gallery: Offbeat Uses for Common Household Objects

How our readers turned hairpins into resistance units, electric fans into potato slicers, and asbestos shingles into hotplates.

Archive Gallery: Classic Thrill Rides and Carnival Attractions
Technology

Archive Gallery: Classic Thrill Rides and Carnival Attractions

The Wastebasket of Dizziness, the Corkscrew of Fate, and more amusement park rides and attractions from the pages of PopSci

Cow farts are an even bigger problem than we thought
Animals

Cow farts are an even bigger problem than we thought

Old data makes for bad burp estimates.

The Seven Keys to Safety: March 1948
Vehicles

Archive Gallery: Automobile Safety Tips

PopSci's old-school guide to maintaining your tires, troubleshooting your carburetor, and driving without accidentally killing anyone

Archive Gallery: PopSci Hunts For Mythical Beasts
Animals

Archive Gallery: PopSci Hunts For Mythical Beasts

Abominable snowmen, sea serpents and dragons, oh my!

Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark
Sharks

Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark

Long cast as the enemy, sharks are really losing this war, as men arm themselves with shark guns, shark repellent and fish the bejeezus out of these misunderstood monsters

Archive Gallery: The Science of Sleep
Science

Archive Gallery: The Science of Sleep

Tips for more restful slumber, decoding how we dream and just a dash of pseudoscience

An Alarm Clock Lazy Susan for Lazy People, November 1939
Projects

How To Hack Your Alarm Clock [Gallery]

From the Popular Science archives: How to make your alarm clock water your lawn, cook you breakfast, turn on a light and more

Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control
Weather

Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control

Fighting hail with chemicals, combatting tornadoes with computers, and other weather-battling techniques from the PopSci archive

9 Of The Strangest Musical Instruments Of All Time [Archive Gallery]
Science

9 Of The Strangest Musical Instruments Of All Time [Archive Gallery]

From a cello-horn to a harpitar, these music-makers are way more exciting than a plain old piano.

Popular Science Takes Drugs
Health

Popular Science Takes Drugs

From our archive: a reporter's LSD trip, a guide to getting high during Prohibition, and more

20 essential Mac keyboard shortcuts to save you a click
Tech Hacks

20 essential Mac keyboard shortcuts to save you a click

Power to your fingertips.

Three Americans won the Nobel Prize for biological ‘clocks’ find
Health

Three Americans won the Nobel Prize for biological ‘clocks’ find

They study the rhythm of our cells.

rescue workers in flood
Weather

There’s actually no such thing as a natural disaster

Hazards are natural; disasters are manmade.

Make your life paperless with these apps and gadgets
Tech Hacks

Make your life paperless with these apps and gadgets

The best ways to digitize everything.

SpaceX wants to build the Swiss Army knife of rockets
Space X

SpaceX wants to build the Swiss Army knife of rockets

One rocket to rule them all.

This is how eyeball tattoos are supposed to work
Health

This is how eyeball tattoos are supposed to work

Don’t worry: there are no gross pictures here.

These early parenting decisions might change a baby’s health
Health

These early parenting decisions might change a baby’s health

What makes a healthy baby gut?

Mars orbiter and landers
Mars

All the countries (and companies) trying to get to Mars

Ready, set, go.

Genetically engineered bacteria—spread by mosquito sex—could spell the end of malaria
Biology

Genetically engineered bacteria—spread by mosquito sex—could spell the end of malaria

Scientists spent ten years developing the special bug.