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Porsche sports cars return to the Forza racing sim franchise with a downloadable 10-pack of cars for Forza Horizon 2 on Xbox One.

No, it's not a prop from a James Bond movie. But the Edgley Optica is undeniably one strange, beautiful bird. First flown in 1979, the British-made aircraft looks like an…

A century after the Wright Brothers' first flight, it’s not the physics that are stopping a second aviation revolution, it’s the laws. Amazon wants to start using its fleet…

On June 24, researchers will meet with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a very specific reason: they want to test a drug that might slow the aging process. If they…

While I was in Vancouver last month, I made sure to add an extra day just to get to see some of the city. I ended up spending most of that day trying to get my merchandise…

YouTube, the most robust repository of video on the planet, has launched their take on a news service, YouTube Newswire.

Armor can be light, durable, and effective, but rarely all three at the same time. New research from the University of Texas Austin has a new solution: a honeycomb shape, but…

From lungs to brains, organ tissues grown on a lab are telling researchers a lot about how their cells do their jobs. Now researchers are using the technology to better…

For the first time in over a century, the U.S. Department of the Treasury will feature a woman on paper currency in the United States. Starting in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the year that the right to vote was extended to all American women, Alexander Hamilton's portrait will either step aside or have to share the spotlight with a woman. The Treasury is asking for the public's input as they make their decision, and you can provide your own suggestions on social media using the hashtag #TheNew10. Here at Popular Science, we figured we'd make our own list of 10 women that have contributed…

It took all of two seconds for the dermatologist to look up at me from her special magnifying scope to tell me that the mole on my left calf had to go. This was two days…

Do you get choked up when a friend tells you a sad story? Or are you more of an analyzer, ready to give advice at a moment’s notice? Your answer probably depends on some…

Despite its segmented carapace, the mantis shrimp is known more for the punches it gives than the blows it takes. Related to the powerful pistol shrimp, the mantis is pound…

Zookeepers and animal lovers around the world have taken to posing like Chris Pratt in the movie Jurassic World, tagging the images with the hashtags #Prattkeeping and…

The war in Eastern Ukraine features crowdfunded robots. Labeled the “People’s Project,” a website is collecting donations for people to buy Ukraine’s government weapons for…

The Arctic lakes in Svalbard, Norway are among of the most pristine, isolated bodies of water on the planet. But that doesn't mean they're empty.In a new study published…

Following in the footsteps of Twitter earlier this year, Google is taking steps to limit access to “revenge porn,” by scrubbing their search result of “nude or sexually…

Project: The Pictish PuzzleThe Picts were a group of people that lived in Scotland during the Late Iron Age. You're probably familiar with their signature artwork: highly…

On display at this week’s Paris Air Show was a set of terrestrial guards. Shiny, white, plastic, and mechanical, these new machines will scan faces and read documents,…

The Rosetta mission’s comet lander has phoned home again.Last year, after Philae crash-landed in a dark spot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the spacecraft went offline…

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