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The crocodile-drawn wagon, the butter-churning bicycle, the jazz-powered mushroom farm, and more

The bubble house, the computerized home, the floating cabin and more places we imagined you'd live in during the decades to come.

A new ice age, exploding stars, the hypothetical Doomsday Machine, and more scenarios that are almost certain to eradicate life on Earth

PopSci attempts to determine, once and for all, which is the superior gender

The egg-shaped car, the washing machine-wagon hybrid, the home-built steam automobile, and more cars built in the garages of DIY enthusiasts

What's on the moon? Here are the "midget-sun hypothesis," lunar snow, and more wild speculations we made prior to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969

Missile trains, atomic planes, orbiting H-bombs and more hypothetical Cold War technologies cooked up by the United States and the Soviet Union.

Our favorite gift guides, DIY decorations, and illustrated Santa Clauses from the past 138 holiday seasons

With special appearances by Coca-Cola, Kodak, and a half-naked Charles Atlas

PopSci covers "talkies," newsreel cinemas, drive-in theaters, and other breakthroughs in 20th-century filmmaking