Inside the surprisingly competitive world of pro pinewood derby.

With its biggest event on the horizon, surfing gets serious about science.

Explore the funky physics at work inside high-end bowling balls.

What ancient teeth could reveal about the modern microbiome.

Thirteen products that were absolutely perfect from the start.

The quest to unravel the co- domestication of people and dogs..

What it’s like to sing on
another planet.

A trio of click-clacking
keyboards.


Notes can send chills
down your spine.


The audio tricks our
minds play on us.

Archaeology has a new prime directive.

Fringe language patterns spread online.

How conspiracy theories take hold.

The engineer building a drone for Mars.

The energy cost of our Netflix binges.

Workshops making old goods new again.

Seven reasons pandas know what’s up.

From human waste to usable soil.

The mileage of our extra terrestrial autos.

Snaking transit through ancient history.

Humankind’s most daring journeys.

An engine that can twist a car frame.

Public-health crises (e.g., guns, opioids).

Mosquitoes, head injuries, fires.

Animal attacks, house fires (etc.).

Motor vehicles (children, 9 or younger).

INTEGRITY The smallest wildlife trackers do their job without disrupting the animal’s behavior or life span.

LEADERSHIP Connecting home astronomers with professionals through a new kind of telescope.

HARD WORK Using IVF to save a rhino subspecies.

LEADERSHIP Building a vessel for a 100-year trip through space.

COURAGE Uterine transplants help women become mothers.

INTEGRITY Honoring missing military personnel by bringing them home.

“Brain training” is obscured by hype. To advance the field, researchers must first sort fact from fiction.

Homo sapiens might be wise, but these seven crafty creatures sure have us beat.

Can we outlaw fossil fuels? Hawaii is trying, and they want to do it by 2045.

How gas-guzzling, exhaust-fuming F1 racing will cope with an increasingly electric world.

Our life-giving sun could one day shut down our planet-wide grid.

Thirty years later... Our product picks may have changed, but the way they’ve been changing certainly has not.

Shoes made for running Sneaker tech that’s shaved more than 30 minutes off marathon times in the last century alone. 

Body, heal thyself Innovative techniques can help us combat disease by harnessing our own natural healing power.

The people who define time 
Big brains hate the big bang 
Life’s fi rst moment just got pushed back 
The art of watchmaking 
Why a year feels shorter as you age

When fantastical weather becomes real.

Temperature spiking? Blame the wind.

A climatologist unafraid to point fingers.

A cool breeze, without the fan racket.

Weather is a wildfire’s cruel accomplice.

In this issue: A house-size diesel engine, Evolving supercomputers, The tape doctor’s recorder, Huge toys for little hands, Fun in construction vehicles, Dubai faces the future, Illusions of grandeur and more...!!!

In this issue: Training to become a master diver, I chased Hurricane Matthew, Essentials for desert fieldwork, Your body, dehydrated, Helen Dahlke: The Water Banker, Bamboo for tastier hydration and much more...

In this issue: When that’s not enough, you leave the solar system entirely, You find frontiers at all scales, from the vast universe, You can ask us anything about the world and much more...

In this issue: A room-size computer built from scratch, Build a wind-powered record player, A room-size computer built from scratch, Human organs on tiny chips, Apple Watch vs. a $10 knockoff and much more...

In this issue: China’s Race to Space Domination To try to gain an edge here on Earth, China is pushing ahead in space CLAY DILLOW, JEFFREYLIN AND P.W. SINGER, The Genius List The hackers, technologists, scientists, and celebrities who have bestowed genius on us so far this year, The Most Social Man on the Planet Inside the brain of the world’s globe-connecting, disease-fighting CEO DAVE GERSHGORN, The world’s longest and highest glass bridge opens, The Arctic Ocean gets its own garbage patch, Coal waste could replace rare metals in smartphones, A chopper-pontoon racecar and much more...

In this Issue:THE REANIMATORS When in crisis, the human body can slow its metabolic clock to the point of appearing dead. But what happens when doctors start doing it on purpose? RENE EBERSOLE,INSIDE NASA’S MARS MISSION An exclusive look at NASA’s $18 billion Orion space project that’s going to take us to the surface of Mars in the 2030s. SARAH FECHT,The next-gen glass at Apple’s new campus,The photographer-in-chief shares his favorite lenses and best tips and much more...

In this Issue:WELCOME TO DRONE-KOTA A cottage industry tries to put North Dakota on the map MARK SUNDEEN,CAN GENES MAKE YOU KILL? Science’s search for the root of violence LOIS PARSHLEY,Alexandru Duru on his hoverboard; photograph by John Kealey,Beef, leather, and milk now available at the synthetic butcher shop and much more...

President obama on space startups and why nerds will rule the world,THE WAR OF SOCIAL MEDIA ISIS has brought global terrorism to a new battlefield: the Internet.
EMERSON BROOKING AND P.W. SINGER, THE BARON OF LOW-EARTH ORBIT Robert Bigelow built a hotel empire on Earth. Can he create a habitat for humans in space?
RYAN BRADLEY,FUKUSHIMA, FIVE YEARS LATER Japan is cleaning up one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen. It still has a long way to go. STEVE FEATHER STONE and much more...

The Last fighter pilot,7 Amazing projects,Want to prevent another Ferguson? Use data not force,PROTO HEROES One day robots could come to your rescue— but first, they have to
learn to walk. Meet the machines that competed in the DARPA
Robotics Challenge. F. SCOTT SCHAFER ERIK SOFGE and much more...

100 Greatest innovations: Drones,phones,Driverless cars,virtual reality,a hoverbike,Inside the mission to pluto:How scientists pulled off the audacious trip to everyone's favorite(Former) planet,what they found and where we go next,Make sweet holiday music and much more...

BRAIN MYTHS BUSTED We debunk 10 common misperceptions about the brain—plus, share three strategies that will make you smarter. MEGAN SCUDELLARI,ON FIRE In one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, a few scientists are often all that stands between life and death. KYLE DICKMAN,A machine that could reveal the true age of planets and more...

TO CATCH A BOMBMAKER:This is the story of a little-known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the global war on terror. CLAY DILLOW,BRILLIANT 10:For the 14th year, Popular Science honors the brightest young minds in science and engineering. They’re networking cars, decoding the brain, preventing plagues— and they’re just getting started. VERONIQUE GREENWOOD AND CASSANDRA WILLYARD and more...

How to be an  expert in anyting with guide Neil degrasse tyson,Build a youtube empire start a scientific revolution make(Robot) friends invent the future and more...

We live in fear of the microbes that inhabit our homes and buildings. But our health,might depend on preserving theirs RINKU PATEL,Surfboards made by a rocket scientist,DISPATCHES FROM THE FUTURE Ten of the brightest minds in science fiction imagine how we will live—on Earth and beyond—in the decades and centuries to come and more...

WHY I STILL LOVE PLUTO:The first close-ups of the dwarf planet will mark the end of an era—and the beginning of a new one. MIKE BROWN,FUTURE OF WAR The risk of conflicts between great powers is rising. How will that change the battlefield of tomorrow? P.W. SINGER and more...

The founder of Raspberry Pi on why everyone should tinker with technology,Navigating the increasingly confusing world of mobile payments,Inside an underground dark-matter laboratory,Google flunks medical school and more...

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