popular science archives

There's no telling what songs our furry friends want to hear.

Enjoy several horrifying parenting aids pulled from our archives.

100 years ago, doctors sent a heartbeat over a phone line, but devices enabling remote care may have finally found their moment

Polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice.

From our archive: a reporter's LSD trip, a guide to getting high during Prohibition, and more

From the Popular Science archives, the hurricane house, the seismograph camera, the forest-fire-fighting dirigible, and more.

From the April 1981 issue of Popular Science: "When scientists finally detect a form of energy they have never seen, they will open a new era in astronomy."

The car has greatly evolved over the past century, and Popular Science has been along for the transformational ride.

In the May 1967 issue of Popular Science, John Steinbeck argued that "the American passion for moving about in motorized caravans... results in little permanent damage beyond divorce and bankruptcy."

In the September 1966 issue of Popular Science, author John Steinbeck made the case for giving deep-sea exploration the same attention as the space race.