Popular Mechanics US
A Fossil Rewriting Dinosaur History
A DNA STRAND LIKE ME IS A BLUEPRINT for building a living thing,\" says the anthropomorphic double-helix Mr. DNA at the start of 1993's Jurassic Park.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
THE SCAM THAT DUPED POKÉMON'S MOST OBSESSIVE CARD COLLECTORS AND THE AMATEUR SLEUTH WHO EXPOSED THE TRUTH
THE FIRST TIME Jason held a set of Pokémon cards was in 1999, when he was 9 years old and he received a pack as a birthday gift.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Underground Incan Tunnels
THE INCAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Accessing 37 Dimensions
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS don’t really get along, as the science of the subatomic can get...well...weird.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
AMERICA'S DEADLIEST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER WAS ERASED FROM HISTORY
THE MEN CAME TO WEST VIRGINIA WANTING NOTHING MORE THAN HONEST WORK. INSTEAD, THEY FACED A SILENT KILLER-AND A MASSIVE COVER-UP.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Cryopreservation
PUTTING HUMANS INTO A STATE OF suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
SPINLAUNCH
LAUNCHING ROCKETS IS SERIOUS business. It takes a ton of fuel, a ton of manpower, a ton of resources, and if it goes bad, it can go really, really bad. It's also one of the least sustainable parts of an already unsustainable industry.
1 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
BUILD THIS DIY RUSTIC BENCH
DO YOU HAVE a “no shoes inside” rule at home?
5 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
The Origin of Life
SCIENTISTS ARE MAKING A CASE FOR adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Chips Designed by A.I.
OUR WORLD RUNS ON COMPUTER CHIPS.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
Seismic Ghost Stories
ЈUST ABOUT EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA has its local legends-the scary stories told at sleepovers or around campfires that someone's friend or cousin always swears they totally saw for real one time.
2 min |
July - August 2025
Popular Mechanics US
INSIDE THE RACE TO DESTROY THE WORLD'S FIRST BALLISTIC MISSILE
ON THE DAMP and dreary evening of September 8, 1944, Sapper Bernard Browning hurried through western London toward the Chiswick train station.
10+ min |
July - August 2025
Scientific American
Strange Circles in the Sky
Odd radio circles are one of the weirdest recent space discoveries
5 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
BLACK HOLE BURPS
After black holes devour stars, sometimes the feast comes back up
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
FASHION FORWARD
A rising swell of sustainable apparel practices makes getting dressed fun again
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
GREENLAND'S FROZEN SECRET
The collapse of the world's second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
In the Heat of the Night
Hot nights lead to lots of hospitalizations. There are ways to keep your cool
4 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
THE TRUTH ABOUT TESTOSTERONE
Men are spending a lot of money on hormone supplements to boost manliness, muscles and mood. But many are not aware of some serious risks
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Animal Landscapers
How creatures alter geology
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Gorilla Gourmets
A mysterious gorilla foraging behavior explained
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Impossible Teal
Only five people have seen the color \"olo\"
4 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Tentacle Talk
Discolike dance moves may be cuttlefish communications
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Mic Drop
To win trust and admiration, fix your microphone
3 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
How Susceptible Are We to False Memories?
Recent studies underscore the difficulty of implanting entirely fictional events in a person's recollection
5 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Slime Attack
This creature's extraordinary goo could lead to recyclable bioplastics
3 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Sniff a Mummy
Scientists capture ancient Egyptian mummies' scents
2 min |
July/August 2025
Scientific American
Pay Dirt
The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are rewriting the country's history
10+ min |
July/August 2025
WIRED
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONVICTED
From Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes' sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime seems to touch every last corner of tech.
4 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
SHARED SECRETS
Psst is building a digital safe to protect tech whistleblowers from recrimination.
3 min |
July - August 2025
WIRED
TWO VIOLENT YEARS ON THE TRAIL OF THE ZIZIANS
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN A GROUP OF TECHNICALLY GIFTED YOUNG PEOPLE SET OUT TO SAVE THE WORLD-AND THEN WENT WAY TOO FAR.
10+ min |