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The guitar has changed dramatically since 1931—Chuck Berry happened, Elvis happened, even Guns N’ Roses happened. Yet, the component that made this evolution possible, the…

The Saturn V wasn’t the only black and white rocket of the Apollo era. There were many, they had German roots, and the scheme came down to heat.

Iran’s new suicide drone bomb is a wedding of unmanned technology and cruise missile utility. In the tradition of a wedding, the drone's Yasir-style body is borrowed, as…

We all have snakes on the brain.

After this dinosaur was buried for 150 million years, it needed some help pulling itself together. In the video above, you can watch a team of experts reassemble the most…

Doritos not included…

To protect the nation’s capital from a 21st century threat, the Pentagon is turning to a technology first seen in World War I: blimps. Made by Raytheon, the “Joint Land…

Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, affecting some 60 million people worldwide. It’s also highly treatable, if caught early. The disease typically occurs when fluid…

No cinema camera captures mind-blowing images like an IMAX camera, but because the cameras are so loud and heavy (the 3-D versions are around 200 pounds), cinematographers…

Fingerprint scanners may be almost commonplace these days, but it's hardly the only biometric that could be used to prove your identity.

What is it about stop-motion animation that leads to such enjoyable watching? From Chicken Run to The Nightmare Before Christmas, these painstaking creations are almost…

If Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was the high-water mark for motion capture creatures, Debevec tells us, Maleficent set the standard for digitized flesh-and-blood people on…

If we didn't know any better, we'd think Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was cast at a real-life zoo. This film, says computer graphics guru Paul Debevec, owes its roots to…

If need a break from all the technological wizardry in the other films we've mentioned, Debevec says his favorite off-the-beaten-path animation of 2014 is The Tale of The…

That masked figure flapping behind Michael Keaton was the most obvious special effect in the film, but it was far from the most interesting. Birdman, shot on an $18 million…

We've already delved into the science and substance behind the movie Interstellar here at Popular Science. But we think it's a winner in the looks category as well—and…

Dueling helicarriers are cool, but where the Captain America sequel really shines is its liver spots. Usually when a film wants to have a young actor play an older version…

The Hobbit movies have come under fire for their cinematography, failure to live up to the earlier Tolkien movie trilogy, and incoherent plotting. But no one argues that The…

Great animation takes more than building the character with the highest pore-count or spending the most money on explosions. It takes science, artisanship, and rigorous…

The Fire Scout C’s smooth, gray body is a mockery of helicopter form. Where there should be windows, there are bulbous gray surfaces; where there should be pilots, there…

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