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Why are flight data recorders referred to as "black boxes," even though the boxes are not actually black?

Engineering: These bugs will have chemical muscles too. You can't make this stuff up.

Aviation: Boeing hopes a hot technology will take to the air.

Tiny robotic bulldozers may soon be on their way to Mars.

Boeing's E/A-18 fighter jet can outwit and outmaneuver the most advanced attack squadrons.

This month, astronauts will deliver an even better internal eye to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Aviation Design: A new idea for taking on the jets.

With little fanfare, the race is on to build a Mach 2.0 private jet with a reduced sonic boom.

On Dec. 8, 1941, one day after Pearl Harbor, the United States was at war. As private industry scrambled to convert its assembly lines to weapons production, Popular Science's editors were moving speedily as well.

How to play chess ... Martian style.