Science
Popular Mechanics US
Carburetors vs. Fuel-Injection
CARBURETORS USE THE VACUUM CREATED by the intake stroke of the engine to force air through their ports and passages. As the air flows through, it simultaneously forces fuel into the combustion chamber.
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March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
KTM Used Fuel Injection to Revamp Two-Stroke Engines
TWO-STROKE ENGINES USED TO BE UBIQUITOUS IN DIRT bike racing, thanks to their lightweight construction and horsepower. Packed in a dirt bike frame, they make a motorcycle playful in the corners and plenty fast when the throttle's wide open.
2 min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Colorful, Accurate Inkjet Printers for Your Documents and Photos
BETWEEN TODAY'S REMOTE-WORKPLACE DEMANDS and a looming tax season, you likely have a lot of paperwork on your hands. You need a reliable printer to quickly crank out hard copies of important documents.
4 min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
IMPLEMENTS of CONSTRUCTION
POPULAR MECHANICS TOOL AWARDS 2023
9 min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
HAVE SOME SCRAP WOOD? MAKE THIS DIY SHAKER STEP STOOL
We built this little stool using just a few common tools and some scrap wood. For accurate crosscuts, we recommend using a miter saw. For the notch, a table saw is the better choice.
2 min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Treasure Hunters May Have Found JESSE JAMES'S LOST GOLD
The legendary treasure could be worth tens of millions-if the team can dig it out of the ground.
10+ min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Nixing the Chaotic Leap Second
Can't Stop Thinking About
3 min |
March - April 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The Fast Approach to Cleaning Your Car
KEEPING YOUR CAR'S EXTERIOR SPICK-AND-span not only makes your ride look good but, in some cases, can even make it more efficient.
2 min |
March - April 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
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
Back-Breaking Work Requires Some Help
Everyone feels the hurt as you age, but CBD can help you deal with it
5 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
Popular Mechanics US
The Unrelenting Roar of a Crypto Mine Tore This Town Apart
Cryptocurrency aims to revolutionize finance, but its mines are destroying communities across America.
10+ min |
January - February 2023
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
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
22 Greatest Tools in the History of the World
Tools make us human, but we are not the only ones who use tools. Some birds drop rocks to crack shells open, and certain apes use sticks to get food or groom themselves.
10+ 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whether Objective Reality Even Exists
Scientists from the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in the São Paulo metropolitan area in Brazil believe that reality might be \"in the eye of the observer.\"
2 min |
November - December 2022
Popular Mechanics US
What Happens When a Black Hole Dies
This issue only compounded in the mid-1970s when Hawking took the principles of quantum physics and applied them to the edge of black holes.
2 min |
November - December 2022
Popular Mechanics US
The Air Force's Bat-Winged Tanker Transport
The result is a plane that, at least in concept art, often looks like a cross between a wide-bodied passenger jet and the B-2A Spirit stealth bomber.
1 min |
November - December 2022
Popular Mechanics US
How to Drift in a Production Car
Contrary to other forms of motorsport, drifting doesn't require all that much equipment, or even space, to get started.
3 min |
November - December 2022
Popular Mechanics US
How the World's Largest Freshwater Fish Grew So Huge
But how did the new record-holder become so enormous in the first place?
1 min |