Already, smart unmanned subs are set to replace dolphins as undersea mine sniffers. Next tech: mine detonation, remote sleuthing and robotic combat.
To reach the bottom of all five oceans, this Texas businessman commissioned “the most significant vehicle since Apollo 11.”
A state-by-state breakdown of policies that could change your community.
As climate change intensifies, architects, designers, and scientists are devising better ways to deal with almost anything nature throws our way.
Why just rebuild the Crescent City when we can reinvent it? Here, the complete plan for riding out a category-5 storm
Britain's Environmental Agency is taking a keen interest in housing technology that embraces flooding rather than fights it.
In a wide-ranging interview with PopularScience.com, Aldrin talks about a mission to Mars, 34 years of sobriety and the future of American leadership in space.
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Microsoft unveils Sun Microsystems' vision for 2004
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Astronomy: Timothy Ferris eyes the amateur asteroid-watchers.
Two angles on the world's most dangerous high-altitude, high-tech daredevil stunt.
Ants, minus the venom
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Most scientists give the credit to a group of mossy swamp-dwellers that originated underwater, but new evidence points to a mysterious life-form that lived--and died--millions of years earlier.
It turns out we seriously underestimated the central nervous system.
Future and ancient past combine in the study of vertebrates
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Some blenny fish spend nearly their entire lives out of the water
