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Beer, Ice Cream, Movies and Video Games
PopSci's booth at Maker Faire was a crowd favorite (and we're not just saying that)—mainly because the projects displayed by contributors John Carnett and Theo Gray were both ingenious and superfun....
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CPR Glove Pulls in Awards
One of the winner's of this year's PopSci Invention Awards, a sensor-laden glove that shows people how to correctly perform CPR in emergency situations, just won the top prize from the Collegiate...
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City-Wide W-iFi...Maybe
Earthlink failed. Google's effort didn't work out. But now a startup called Meraki Networks—a company we've been following for some time—hopes to construct a city-wide Wi-Fi network in San Francisco...
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Get BUGged
Bug Labs has just released the pricing for their initial release of BUG modules. As an added incentive, the "first wave" of customers will receive a BUG Early Adopters Discount: BUGbase $349 ($299...
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Hot on eBay: Flying Car!
As best we can tell, this pup's legit. It's a prototype from the Sky Commuter program that Boeing evidently sunk $6 million into back in the 1980s. The program was dismantled—presumably because the...
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Enter PopSci's 21st Annual Best of What's New
BOWN 2008 popsci Learn more and submit your product or technology today at popsci.com/enter. If you're not automatically redirected to the Best of What's New site, click here.
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Diesel on a Diet
Five Steps to a More Efficient Engine (Blow it up!) Steve Karp To make its Duramax 4.5 diesel cleaner and leaner, GM turned traditional engine design inside out and dumped 70 parts.The biggest change...
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Pumpkin Carving Made Easy
Dremel Pumpkin Carving Tool Robert Bosch Tool Corporation Are you looking for that little extra "something" to kick your entry up a notch in the upcoming PopSci/Instructables Halloween contest? Then...
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PopSci Augments Reality
Imagination Today the July issue of Popular Science -- with a cover package on the future of energy -- officially hits newsstands, and with its release we unveil an extremely cool first-ever for the...
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Check Out Our New and Improved iPhone App
Our New iPhone App - Screenshots A free update to our iPhone app has just hit the iTunes Store this week. We've given the app a total overhaul, making it even easier and more fun to read and share all...
View Article125 Glorious Years of Popular Science in One Giant Picture
Lev Manovich, a new-media theorist and professor, has lately been constructing a few mega-collages to show at a glance how some of our longest-running magazines have changed. Science and Time have both...
View ArticleHow I Survived A Trip Inside A Military Aviation-Testing Plant To Film 'Top...
One of the great benefits of being in charge of a magazine like Popular Science is that a lot of doors are open to me. The name and prestige of the title make it possible…
View ArticleWatch PopSci's Editor-In-Chief On 'Top Secret' Tonight, And Win A Cool Book!
The first of two new shows starring Popular Science Editor-in-chief Jacob Ward premieres tonight on the National Geographic Channel. In "Top Secret," Ward goes behind the scenes at Plant 42, an...
View ArticleHow Popular Science Has Celebrated The Fourth Of July
Each July, Americans across the country channel their inner patriot, even us science geeks. For decades Popular Science has commemorated Independence Day in its own way, be it a look at the mechanics...
View Article10 Retro DIY Projects To Do Before Summer Ends
Summer is almost over SIGH. If you're eager to squeeze in some last-minute leisure, check out these retro do-it-yourself projects, culled from the Popular Science archives.
View ArticleWhy We're Shutting Off Our Comments
Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off. It wasn't a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old…
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Debating The Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings
On August 6th, 1945, the American B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic weapon ever detonated, and…
View ArticleThe Vizzies: Now Accepting Your Mind-Blowing Science And Engineering...
Update: We've announced the 2015 winners of the The Vizzies at popsci.com/2015-vizzies Here at Popular Science, we’re big fans of visualizations—those often beautiful and always illuminating...
View ArticleThe Editor's Letter From The December 2014 Issue Of Popular Science
Every June, the editors at Popular Science gather for the first Best of What’s New meeting. BOWN, as we affectionately call it, has run as our December cover story for more…
View ArticleWelcome To The New Popular Science
Dictionaries change, seasons change, even atoms change—let's hear it for radiation! But science's meteoric rise in pop culture continues to surprise us. I like to say there's no better time to work...
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