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NASA Gets Heat For Ditching Metric System on New Shuttle Replacement
Science

NASA Gets Heat For Ditching Metric System on New Shuttle Replacement

By John Mahoney

Color-Picking Pen Concept Imagines Real-World Photoshop Eyedropper Tool
Technology

Color-Picking Pen Concept Imagines Real-World Photoshop Eyedropper Tool

By Stuart Fox

Technology

Finding Nature’s Most Efficient Flight Mechanism

By Rebecca Boyle

Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
Science

Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips

By Stuart Fox

Climate Change Is Already Affecting the United States
Environment

Climate Change Is Already Affecting the United States

By Stuart Fox

A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist
Technology

A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist

By Arnie Cooper

Cheaper, Smaller Nuclear Reactors Seek Customers in Developing World
Environment

Cheaper, Smaller Nuclear Reactors Seek Customers in Developing World

By Stuart Fox

Technology

A Word With the Inventor of the Battlefield Snakebot and the Wall-Scaling Snailbot

By John Pavlus

Heads-Up Display Embedded In Glasses
Gear

Heads-Up Display Embedded In Glasses

By Stuart Fox

Drones Hone In On Taliban Targets Marked With Tiny Microchips
Technology

Drones Hone In On Taliban Targets Marked With Tiny Microchips

By Dan Smith

Analysts: Obama’s Much-Touted New Cybersecurity Plan Is Full of Holes
Technology

Analysts: Obama’s Much-Touted New Cybersecurity Plan Is Full of Holes

By Stuart Fox

What the Sotomayor Nomination Means for Technology
Technology

What the Sotomayor Nomination Means for Technology

By Stuart Fox

Invention Awards: The World as a Web Interface
Technology

Invention Awards: The World as a Web Interface

By Gregory Mone

Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette
Environment

Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette

By Stuart Fox

The Science of Distraction
Science

The Science of Distraction

By Stuart Fox

Researcher Charged With Smuggling Stolen Ebola Virus
Health

Researcher Charged With Smuggling Stolen Ebola Virus

By Stuart Fox

Space Station Astronauts Toast ISS Kitchen Upgrades With Their Own Urine
Science

Space Station Astronauts Toast ISS Kitchen Upgrades With Their Own Urine

By Adam Hadhazy

An old man in a gray suit using a rappelling device to descend from a tall office building.
DIY

The 2009 Invention Awards

By Popular Science Team

Swine Flu Is Still Here
Science

Swine Flu Is Still Here

By Stuart Fox

Swine Flu Consistent with Other Pandemic Strains
Science

Swine Flu Consistent with Other Pandemic Strains

By Stuart Fox

Again with the Cyber War
Technology

Again with the Cyber War

By Stuart Fox

Hubble Camera’s Farewell Photo
Technology

Hubble Camera’s Farewell Photo

By Popular Science Team

What Comes After Hubble?
Science

What Comes After Hubble?

By Rebecca Boyle

Face Off
Health

Face Off

By Stuart Fox

Obama Unveils Science Advisors
Science

Obama Unveils Science Advisors

By Stuart Fox

A, T, G, C and What?
Science

A, T, G, C and What?

By Amber Sasse

Theo Gray's Mad Science book cover, showing Gray with a thick glove that's on fire.
DIY

The Really Dangerous Book for Boys

By Mike Haney

The Science of Forensics
Science

The Science of Forensics

By Matt Ransford

Drag Net
Technology

Drag Net

By Corey Binns

Flying Up to Meet Asteroids
Science

Flying Up to Meet Asteroids

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA’s Escape Pod
Science

NASA’s Escape Pod

By Dawn Stover

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
Technology

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

Write Your Name on the Moon
Science

Write Your Name on the Moon

By Rebecca Boyle

Sound Becomes Light
Science

Sound Becomes Light

By Brooke Borel

A Lunar Rocket Designed To Crash
Science

A Lunar Rocket Designed To Crash

By Rebecca Boyle

Anatomy of a Serial Killer
Science

Anatomy of a Serial Killer

By

This Machine Might* Save the World
Environment

This Machine Might* Save the World

By Josh Dean

The First Few Minutes After Death
Health

The First Few Minutes After Death

By Sam Barrett

Power Struggle
Technology

Power Struggle

By Seth Fletcher

Going Up?
Science

Going Up?

By Paul Adams

Sorry, You’re Just Not My (Testosterone’s) Type
Science

Sorry, You’re Just Not My (Testosterone’s) Type

By Rachel Durfee

Darmstadt Solar House
Science

Cheap Labor

By Patrick DiJusto

Breaking Open the Unknown Universe
Science

Breaking Open the Unknown Universe

By

Catching Crooks With Salt
Science

Catching Crooks With Salt

By Sam Barrett

How the Human Got His Thumbs
Environment

How the Human Got His Thumbs

By Stuart Fox

Science by design(ers)
DIY

Science by design(ers)

By Dave Prochnow

WowWee Dragonfly
Gear

PopSci’s Best of CES 2007

By John Mahoney and Fred Koschmann

Gecko on a coin
Environment

Small is Beautiful

By Dawn Stover