Newsweek US
What Makes Us Human
Tantalizing new findings suggest that neanderthals, our human cousins, are a lot like us. How, then, did we manage to win the evolutionary competition?
10+ min |
January 06 - 13, 2023 (Double Issue)
Popular Mechanics US
Why Isn't the World Made of Lego Blocks?
Lego bricks are among the most durable building materials in existence. So why don't we make everything out of them?
7 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Whether Earth Once Harbored a Pre-Human Industrial Civilization
Complex life on our planet has existed for at least 400 million years.
3 min |
January - February 2023
Newsweek US
New Hopes and Fears for Alzheimer's Patients
A new drug offers modest slowing of the disease in its early stages. But are the benefits worth the risks?
8 min |
December 30, 2022
Popular Mechanics US
Jupiter's Shifting Orbit Will Make Earth Paradise (or Hell)
Oh, Jupiter. If only the gas giant shifted its orbit slightly, becoming more eccentric (meaning ovalshaped), it could transform the shape of Earth's orbit, too, causing parts of the blue planet to move closer to the sun.
1 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Bottled Water B.S.
Tossing hundreds or thousands of empty water bottles into your recycling bin each year doesn’t make up for the fact that you're using up that amount of plastic for a free, renewable resource in the first place.
1 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
What Should the World Know More About?
Pry open any PopMech editor’s brain and you'll find an overstuffed assortment of fun facts, practical tips, interesting bits of history, and other insightful discoveries. But because there are only so many pages in this magazine, staffers don’t always have the space to share their favorite, most underreported nuggets of knowledge. Until now.
1 min |
January - February 2023
WIRED
Feed Me
Pitcher plants are beautiful, rare, and life-consuming-in every way. How one collector's obsession became a nightmare.
10+ min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
The Hibernator's Guide to the Galaxy
Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.
10+ min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they're dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are in an urgent battle over an old question: how should humanity catalog life?
10+ min |
December 2022 - January 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Crabs Revolutionizing the Battery Industry
EVERY YEAR, WE PRODUCE ABOUT 6 TO 8 million tons of crab, shrimp, and lobster shell waste globally, with most of it dumped straight back into the ocean or into landfills.
2 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
How 3 Quantum Physicists Proved Einstein Wrong
0NCE DESCRIBED AS \"SPOOKY ACTION at a distance\" by the world's most famous physicist, Albert Einstein, entanglement the idea that two particles separated by vast distances could instantly influence each other-lies at the very heart of what makes quantum physics so strange and counterintuitive.
2 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
PATHS HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW
If you've ever seen a makeshift dirt path connecting two sidewalks, that's a \"desire path,\" also known as a desire line or game trail.
1 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
A Handsome Industrial Coffee Table for Less Than $200
YOU'VE SEEN THE ADS AND CATALOGS HAWKING TRENDY FURniture featuring pseudo-repurposed materials for gobs of money.
7 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Disston D-8 Saw
MADE: 2022 ACQUIRED: 2022 FUNCTION: Crosscutting and ripping lumber
1 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The World's First Hypersonic Cruise Missile
A NEW MISSILE SET TO ENTER SERVICE in 2027 is radically different from anything else in the Pentagon's arsenal.
1 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Valve's Steam Deck Makes PC Gaming Truly Portable
MOBILE GAME SYSTEMS HAVE LONG BEEN VIEWED AS inferior to gaming computers and consoles. That's because their smaller components are often too weak to keep up with the rising graphics demands of new titles.
5 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Track Saws Help You Cut Straight, Like a Pro
NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, TRACK SAWS WERE N made by only a handful of companies and were employed almost exclusively by professional tradesmen.
4 min |
January - February 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Solving This Maddening Probability Problem
Can't Stop Thinking about
2 min |
January - February 2023
PC Magazine
AUDIO
AUDIO
1 min |
December 2022
PC Magazine
T Mobile
Mobile
2 min |
December 2022
PC Magazine
Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 (2022): Nearly an Editors' Choice
A solid gaming laptop for under 2,000
6 min |
December 2022
PC Magazine
Apple TV 4K 3rd Generation): Best for the Apple-Centric
A powerful, feature-rich media streamer that’s pricier than most
7 min |
December 2022
PC Magazine
SMART HOME
SMART HOME
3 min |
December 2022
WIRED
HIGH IMPACT
Photographer Neil Buckland captures the mosaic of minerals in meteorites.
1 min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
SEE NO EVIL
Companies pay millions to get their digital ads in front of humans. Shady networks show them to bots instead. And everyone is fine with this.
4 min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
The Digital Payments Mastermind
DIARY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR
4 min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
ONCE MOORE
Rereading the most influential article of the 20th century.
5 min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
Meeting of Music Minds
MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST
2 min |
December 2022 - January 2023
WIRED
Dear Cloud Support: "I'm a white person, and despite there being a range of skin tones available for emoji these days, I still just choose the original Simpsons-esque yellow. Is this insensitive to people of color?" -True Colors
I realize, True Colors, that this discussion has probably only complicated the dilemma you posed, rather than simplified it.
5 min |