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Featured in October 2014

By Oct 31, 2014
DIY

Create A Smoking Pumpkin With An E-Cigarette

How to hack your jack-o'-lantern
By Oct 14, 2014
Science

The Editor’s Letter From The October 2014 Issue Of Popular Science

Read the full issue online now.
By Oct 14, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Nicole Abaid Studies Bats To Make Drones Smarter

Learning how bats avoid radar jamming could help scientists control huge swarms of robots.
By Oct 13, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data

She's also teaching the cloud to forget personal information.
By Oct 10, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Manu Prakash Brings Science To The Masses

He creates low-cost alternatives to high-tech research equipment.
By Oct 9, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Michael Habib Uncovers The Secrets Of Pterosaurs

His techniques reveal how these schoolbus-sized reptiles were able to fly, and could help engineers design better parachutes and hang...
By Oct 8, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Katharina Ribbeck Makes Antibiotic Alternatives Out Of Mucus

Snot is way more sophisticated than people give it credit for.
By Oct 8, 2014
Space

The Greatest Space Hack Ever

How duct tape and tube socks saved three astronauts
By Oct 7, 2014
Science

Rethinking The Turing Test

Oversimplified competitions encourage computer programs that are snarky rather than intelligent--but it doesn't have to be that way.
By Oct 7, 2014
Science

The Brilliant Ten: Jonathan Viventi Builds Devices That Decode Thoughts

His brain implants could one day halt epileptic episodes and allow amputees to control prostheses with their minds.