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Deep dive: How exactly the Apple Watch tracks swimming
Smartwatches

Deep dive: How exactly the Apple Watch tracks swimming

Measuring motion in the water is complex. This is how Apple’s wearable does it.

Archive Gallery: 10 Ways to Beat the Heat Without Air Conditioning
Technology

Archive Gallery: 10 Ways to Beat the Heat Without Air Conditioning

We take a look at how people dealt with summer temperatures before modern-day air conditioners became commonplace

What happened to PopSci.com?
Technology

What happened to PopSci.com?

A quick note from the online director.

You don’t have to be at a traumatic event to be affected by it
Psychology

You don’t have to be at a traumatic event to be affected by it

Experts weigh in on the psychological reverberations of violence.

CalTech Advanced LIGO
Physics

Three men just won a Nobel Prize for the work of more than a thousand people

1 experiment. 1,011 people.

The detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime just won a Nobel Prize
Physics

The detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime just won a Nobel Prize

Making waves in the physics community.

Parachute Sledding: February 1935
Science

Archive Gallery: Strange Sports of Tomorrow

Aquatic polo ponies, parachute sledding, balloon jumping, and more short-lived novelty sports from the early 20th century

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Sensational World War II Headlines
Technology

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Sensational World War II Headlines

Tank killers, nightmares for Hitler, bombed-out volcanoes and more explosive ideas from World War II-era PopSci.

Archive Gallery: How the Space Age Influenced Design
Space

Archive Gallery: How the Space Age Influenced Design

A colorful look at how America's obsession with space travel led to rocket-shaped vehicles, parabola-shaped buildings, and swiveling television sets

Aftermath of the Scopes Trial: September 1929
Evolution

Archive Gallery: In Defense of Evolutionary Theory

How we covered the Scopes Monkey Trial, the discovery of Java Man, the Piltdown Man hoax, and milestones in the history of evolutionary theory

'59 Chevrolet: November 1958
Vehicles

Archive Gallery: Classic Car Advertisements from the Pages of PopSci

The good, the bad, and the hideous

shaved carrot tart with ricotta
Environment

Our best non-red-meat recipes for #NoRedOctober

Join us for an experimental month cutting out red meat, and do the planet a solid.

Archive Gallery: The Geodesic Life
DIY

Archive Gallery: The Geodesic Life

PopSci explores the geodesic dome's brief wave of popularity

Archive Gallery: Mail Order Kits, From the Back Pages of PopSci
Projects

Archive Gallery: Mail Order Kits, From the Back Pages of PopSci

Jet powered Space Rangers, kit cars, electronic organs, radio hats, and more -- all yours for a low, low price!

The conditions to blame for 2017’s wildly destructive hurricane season
Weather

The conditions to blame for 2017’s wildly destructive hurricane season

A perfect storm.

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: Beauty Secrets of Popular Science
Science

Archive Gallery: Beauty Secrets of Popular Science

Get gorgeous with the cutting edge of twentieth-century technology