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Lightpaper looks like a tear in reality, or a handheld computer glitch. Rohinni, a technology company with roots in both Idaho and Austin, Texas, created a paper-thin…

Over the past year, we’ve learned the hard way that our cellular networks aren’t all that secure. The hypersecure Blackphone ensures that all communications remain private…

If you took a toy hexacopter, scaled it up to carry humans, and tripled the number of rotors, you’d have something like the Volocopter. Eighteen 1.8-meter-long carbon-fiber…

Before NASA could send men to land on the Moon, it had to figure out what the Moon’s environment was like.

Common photo-editing software allows users to move objects—a flower from the left side of a photo to the right, for example—along a plane, but that’s about all they can do.

Standing for part of the day can prolong a person’s life. Yet more than half of sit-to-stand office desks never leave the sitting position. The Kinetic Desk prompts users…

Liquid Intelligence, a new book by (friend of Popular Science) Dave Arnold. The book is a canonical manual to a better way of understanding and making cocktails. "Think like…

Spotify likes to remind us every once in a while that their servers record data on what everyone's listening to—what, when, where, how, and how often. In the past, they've…

Photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of Popular Science…

Have you ever thought about what might be floating around in your kitchen?

If you thought Comet 67P was a gray blob, you thought wrong. It's actually a reddish-brown blob. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission arrived at the 'rubber ducky…

When Imitation Game star Benedict Cumberbatch appeared on MTV a few weeks ago to promote the movie, his interviewer put his acting chops to the test. Cumberbatch sped…

Having a hard time getting motivated after a lazy, turkey-filled Thanksgiving break? We’ve got the perfect remedy for you. Take just five minutes from your workday to watch…

The first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out, and with it a tantalizing glimpse of this long-ago universe and its tech—some of it not so far away.

"Study: E-cigarettes contain 10 times more carcinogens than cigarettes""E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times cancer-causing agents""E-cigarettes contain 10 times the…

Thirty-five million to 47 million years ago, a carnivorous plant lived in what's now Russia. The dinosaurs were long gone, but various groups of mammals were still just…

Are you a farmer with galactic ambition? Does the agrarian life lack that aerospace sheen? Or do you just wish your career path looked a bit more like Matthew McConaughey's…

With all the symbolism of man’s hubris turned to dust, in 1986, the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl melted down. The scale of the devastation was vast. A whole town,…

It's been difficult to make a smell-o-vision that's effective and cheap enough that people and companies would bother to buy it, but the dream lives on.

Unlike other mammals, bats in torpor -- a state of hibernation -- don't have memory problems. Could that be good news for us?

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