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How, exactly, are we going to protect the environment from robots? Last June, the National Park Service banned all drones from national parks. Shortly thereafter, a tourist…

A glitch in the iPad app that American Airlines pilots use caused delays in several flights this week; until it's fixed, pilots will revert to paper charts.

It’s not reinventing the wheel, but it’s close. NASA, working together with the Air Force Research Laboratory, announced yesterday that they’ve successfully flown a plane…

And we're still 75 away from the closest pass. It's going to get even better.

Less than a month ago California's Governor, Jerry Brown, announced mandatory water restrictions for his drought-plagued state. Now, he's set another environmental bar for…

Today’s the day we say “au revoir” to NASA’s resilient MESSENGER space probe. Actually, it’d probably be more appropriate to say “geronimo.” The spacecraft, which has spent…

Popular Science contributing editor Brooke Borel suffered through bed bugs three times in New York between 2004 and 2009. Those experiences, which were part of a global bed…

Global warming has already affected our sea levels and permafrost, and now it’s coming after plants and animals. A new study shows that if we current on our current…

Today, tech giants Apple and IBM, along with Japanese post office conglomerate Japan Post Group announced that they will be teaming up to bring iPads and custom apps to…

Plenty of fish in the sea? Sure. But you won't find any in the Atlantic Ocean's newly discovered dead zones. In a paper published in Biogeosciences, researchers describe…

It’s official: Progress 59 isn’t going to make it to the International Space Station. Early Tuesday morning, after launching from Russia, the unmanned cargo resupply ship suffered a malfunction when it reached orbit. It’s possible that a couple of its navigational antennas failed to deploy. Roscosmos did not receive any communication or data from the spacecraft after that. Meanwhile, video from NASA TV showed the probe spinning wildly while in orbit. When the glitch first occurred, NASA announced that the Russian space agency would postpone Progress's docking with the ISS until Thursday,…

An adorable sea lion named “Rubbish” decided to ditch the ocean and tour San Francisco on footflipper this morning. Someone spotted him in the Marina District around 7 a.m.

New Shepard--the primary rocket from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight venture, Blue Origin--flew a successful test flight yesterday. It climbed 307,000 feet, or…

What do you give the man who has everything? Or, at least, is in direct communication with the entity responsible for everything? For a group of students in Rome from a…

Could you pull a blue whale across a beach? How about scale a skyscraper carrying an elephant on your back? Of course you can't. But it would be really awesome if you…

As most drivers know, “infotainment” generally means “in-dash navigation system with limited function and old maps.” Soup up your car’s outdated software with an upgrade module and a powerful computer you already own--your smartphone. WARNING: Disconnect the car battery before installation, negative (black) terminal first. If you start sizzling, you’ve grabbed the wrong one. Stats Time: 4 hours Cost: $250+ Difficulty: 2/5 Materials: • Car • VAIS Tech or Parrot kit • Adhesive-backed Velcro • Plastic or Velcro zip ties • Smartphone Instructions: 1. The VAIS Tech kit (for Toyota…

The world of Middle Earth, as portrayed in the Lord of the Rings books and films, is known mainly for its inhospitability. Giant spiders, orc hordes, ringwraiths on…

Thanks to new genetic engineering techniques, we can edit DNA with more precision than ever before. This technology has the potential to change whether a baby lives or…

Your heart might “skip a beat” if you’re frightened or you suddenly see a long-lost love, but in real life, an irregular heartbeat can be dangerous. If the heart can't pump…

Even after 54 years of sending astronauts into space, NASA is still learning about how space conditions affect the human body. Currently, the agency is studying the effects…

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