Popular Mechanics US
How This Particle Could Break Our Understanding of Reality
EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL THEORY OF relativity teaches us that nothing can accelerate past the speed of light. But what if, when you were born, you were already moving faster than light? What would that look like?
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
How the World's Largest Spherical Structure Was Built
THE SHINY, NEW LAS VEGAS SPHERE IS more than just a 17,600-seat amphitheaterstyle venue hosting a U2 residency. Since its opening in September 2023, it's become the world's largest spherical structure, at 516 feet wide and 366 feet tall.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Right Way to Use a Fire Extinguisher
A FIRE EXTINGUISHER IS MORE THAN A of one 5-gallon bucket becomes the size of 64 burning buckets. Just 180 seconds after it begins, a fire can be transformed from a nuisance to a room-size, life-threatening inferno.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Army's Drone-Killing Laser Weapon
THE U.S. ARMY FIELDED ITS FIRST LASERweapon-equipped unit in October. Based at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the unit took possession of four laser-equipped Stryker infantry combat vehicles, each mounting a 50-kilowatt-class laser-weapon system. The combination of Stryker and laser can down both artillery, such as mortars and rockets, and drones in-flight.
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Why It's So Hard to Mine the World's Largest Lithium Deposit
A Pass, or Peehee Mu'huh to the local Paiute people has been mined since the 1970s, so the new analysis merely confirms what locals have long known about the area.
2 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
WHAT THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL X-RAY LASER WILL DO FOR SCIENCE
DEEP UNDER MENLO PARK, California, there is a threemile-long machine operating in a tunnel that scientists are keeping colder than even some of the deepest reaches of space.
3 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
POPULAR MECHANICS TOP AWARDS 2024
For more than 120 years, Popular Mechanics has been a heavy-duty brand. We see no reason to change that now.
6 min |
March - April 2024
Popular Mechanics US
How Three Amateurs Solved the Zodiac Killer's '340' Cipher
The mysterious code stumped the FBI and NSA for 53 years. What does the key, and the resulting solution, tell us about the infamous murderer?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
TAIL AS OLD AS TIME
Was Bobi the world's longest-lived dogor just another casualty of Big Kibble?
5 min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
LOVE, DEMENTIA AND ROBOTICS
When my parents got sick, I turned to a NEW GENERATION of roboticists and their GLOWING, TALKING, WARMHEARTED creations.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
IN DEFENSE OF JAVASCRIPT
Mock it all you want-but it runs the world. Possibly even literally.
5 min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
THE PROVINCE OF ALL MANKIND
TWO NATIONS. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. AND THE URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF SPACE RIGHT NOW.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT
Three decades after a devastating nuclear war between the US and China, a divided America faces a new threat to its very DNA. An excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
THE Algorithmic Authenticity OF Shou Zi Chew
The CEO of the world's most influential social media company likes tacos, Sheryl Crow, and Diablo IV. Is he for real-ora really good politician?
10+ min |
March - April 2024
WIRED
EVERY WOMAN IS AN ISLAND
Matriarchy, money, and a modern mariner named Marina.
5 min |
March - April 2024
Rock&Gem Magazine
Arsenic: The "King of Poisons"
Few things are saddled with darker connotations than arsenic. Used throughout much of history as a human poison, arsenic has become inexorably linked with death.
4 min |
October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Why IQ Tests Are Bad Math
Some experts who study intelligence quotient (IQ) tests say these models are mathematically imperfect and can even lead to race and class discrimination.
2 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Giving New Life to a Vintage Toolbox
Rust stripper plus spray paint overhaul a box that launched a business.
4 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The Safest Table Saw Tech Comes to Home Workshops
Big Important Product
7 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
CAPTAIN AI
IN 2022, A VESSEL WITH NO HUMANS ABOARD SET SAIL ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. WOULD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE .BE ENOUGH TO KEEP IT AFLOAT?
10+ min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The First Roads We'll Build on the Moon
PLANS FOR A FUTURE LUNAR MINING base and the 2025 Artemis III landing on the moon are about to launch a new era of human presence on the moon.
2 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
How to Break in Leather Boots
WHEN PERFECTLY SHAPED TO your foot, a well-worn leather boot can skyrocket to the top of your most comfortable boot list. Now, a leather boot that has not been properly broken in that's a different story, and one without as comfortable an ending.
2 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
Gadget AWARD'S
Life's good, but having the right tools can make it a hell of a lot better. The tech on the following pages can make knocking out work, gaming with friends, and controlling your home easier. Our editors spent the past year testing dozens of electronics ranging from smartphones to televisions. They used a mix of software benchmarks (where applicable), measurements, and extensive hands-on evaluation to find the devices that offer the most value and best performance-all to identify quality products best poised to serve you for years to come.
10+ min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The Silver Bridge Was a Marvel of Engineering - THEN IT CAME CRASHING DOWN.
How a risky design, cost-cutting, and strange supernatural warnings changed a small town forever
10+ min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
POWER STATIONS
For some folks, the advantages of portable power stations make them an ideal choice.
4 min |
September - October 2023
Popular Mechanics US
The Perfect Whiskey-toWater Ratio
NEAT OR ON THE ROCKS? OR MAYBE just a touch of water? It's a question long debated by whiskey lovers and one largely left to personal preference until now.
1 min |
September - October 2023
WIRED
A. I. Goes to War
Ships without crews. Autonomous drone swarms. A small U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and Artificial Intelligence to prepare for the next great conflict at sea
10+ min |
September 2023
WIRED
The Fractal Immortality of Grimes
I thought my interview with Grimes-the mysterious techno artist, fan of all nerddom, and the deepest of insiders in Elon Musk's world-would be one-on-one. Instead it wound up as a roundtable discussion. Turns out there are multiple personas embedded in the surprisingly haimish human who sat under a tree with me and spent the waning hours of an afternoon in conversation. There was Claire Boucher, the given name of a Vancouver kid obsessed with video games and devoted to provoking adults with misbehavior and the embrace of taboo subjects. There was Grimes, the self-invented, scrappy DIY musician and provocateur who weaves sci-fi into her work and released what Pitchfork judged to be the second-best song of the 2010s. And there was her preferred nomenclature, "c," invoking the speed of light
10+ min |
September 2023
WIRED
THE GREAT DIVIDE
There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It's batch vs. loopand we really need them to reconcile
4 min |
September 2023
WIRED
THE DEFECTOR
Doug Rushkoff was one of tech's founding optimists. Now he's renouncing the digital revolution. He says it's the only human option.
10+ min |