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Each year, Popular Science picks the 100 greatest new innovations in technology to feature in our Best Of What's New issue. Discover the most exciting developments in

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At the crack of dawn on Friday, the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft was transported via specialized train car to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian

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On the one hand, you can fit OK Go's latest album in the coin pocket of your jeans. On the other hand, it takes hundreds of dollars' worth of equipmentâand a science…

Drones, the monosyllabic catch-all for remote controlled unmanned aircraft, have become a striking symbol of modernity in the past decade. First as military scouts and…

Dictionaries change, seasons change, even atoms changeâlet's hear it for radiation! But science's meteoric rise in pop culture continues to surprise us. I like to say

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Symantec has discovered a complex and stealthy piece of malware designed to spy on people, companies, and governments without leaving a trace.

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NASA has given an old, high-resolution image of Jupiter's moon Europa a fresh polish. The result is the closest-yet approximation of what the watery moon would look like to

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Soon, visitors to Iceland will be able to head inside a man-made ice cave and get an inside look into how glaciers work. The 1,640-foot long tunnel is currently being carved…

Experts now think it's feasible for Nigeria to wipe out wild poliovirus within its borders this year, even as the country stays on high alert against Ebola.

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We all know that good fences make good neighbors, but in one national park in India, fences just arenât good enough. New Scientist reports that a new radar network is…

The teaser trailer for Jurassic World will be released this Thursday, and while everyone is looking forward to the film's release next June, some imaginative folks on…

A decade ago, we set out to unravel deep ocean crime scenes we werenât even sure existed. The crime? Endangered Steller sea lions were rapidly disappearing in parts of…

Mobile broadband is growing fast in Africa and other developing countries, but overall penetration still lags behind the Western world.

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You probably don't think of them that way, but Blu-ray discs have a gorgeous color. In fact, the same physics that gives butterfly wings and housefly eyes their iridescent…

Earlier this month, scientists observed the black seadevil species of anglerfish alive in its natural habitat for the first time. You might recognize this sort of bony

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In the ongoing effort to lower the cost of commercial spaceflight, private companies hope to conquer a facet of rocket design NASA hasnât fully explored yet: reusable…

Right now, the U.S. Navy has a warship with a laser gun patrolling the Persian Gulf. The USS Ponce is an old ship that first saw service as an amphibious transport in the…

The Pew Research Center quizzed Americans on their knowledge of technology and the web, and the results were pretty middling.

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We didn't know it at the time, but some astronauts took girls to the Moon.

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Glaciers are having a hard time all around the world. A new book outlines the findings of a years-long effort by researchers and research groups across the world. Titled…

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