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Fighter Jets Help Capture America The Beautiful

Greg Wilson and His Cinematography Team Used Unprecedented Techniques to Bring the Latest Disney+ Nature Documentary to Viewers.

A Vista of 100 Billion Flares: Photos From the James Webb Telescope

If there's one reason to smile It's when you look up out at night You're fortunate enough To drink in a vista 100 billion flares Display a glowing history Splayed out across a canvas, the night sky But, for a moment just contemplate When looking up, you only saw a blank slate And, for a moment just contemplate It appears that heaven's been abandoned -Rou Reynolds

Large Hadron Collider Experiment Leads to Discovery of 3 New Exotic Particles

The Large Hadron Collider's third run is already producing new discoveries. Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration has announced the discovery of three new exotic particles.

New Software Enables Law Enforcement to Scan Fingerprints From a Smartphone

Contactless fingerprinting could soon be implemented by police departments across the U.S.

Tech for Tikes

Lovevery is introducing science-driven fun to children aged six months to four years.

AI-Driven Facial Recognition Software Helps Families of Holocaust Survivors Identify Relatives

A Google engineer has created an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from World War II and the Holocaust, linking them to people living today.

The Apple Lens is Getting Closer to Reality

Augmented reality is getting closer. Apple recently announced it is developing AR contact lenses that could make iPhones obsolete.

GM Announces Hybrid Corvette for 2023

America's most popular sports car is getting a major tech and environmental upgrade.

Team Wildfire Wildfires with Jet Engines is Combating

A Movie Special Effects Engineer's Revolutionary Concept Will Help Combat the Wildfire Epidemic.

Should I Have Cyber Insurance?

With so much emphasis behind sharing personal information online for the sake of presenting our best digital selves, we seldom consider the various cyber threats that exist and the propensity by which they can pose serious risk.

Mental Health in a Pandemic World

COVID-19 Forever Changed Mental Health Care.

Creating Genie

Aladdin animator Eric Goldberg shares how his love of drawing was sparked and his experience working on some of Disney’s most beloved animated films.

Democratizing Radio

Ryan Star’s Stationhead is Revolutionizing the Streaming Experience.

Hi, My Name is David. I'm an Apple Addict.

“Gazpacho is cold” a great quote from Bill Maher explaining how every single thing you know, you learn at a particular moment in your life. When Maher was a younger man, after dressing down a waiter in a restaurant for bringing him cold soup, the waiter responded “Sir, Gazpacho is cold.” And he learned.

Creating Tomorrow's Workforce

The Government's Big Investment in STEM

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?

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?

Whether Earth Once Harbored a Pre-Human Industrial Civilization

Complex life on our planet has existed for at least 400 million years.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Feed Me

Pitcher plants are beautiful, rare, and life-consuming-in every way. How one collector's obsession became a nightmare.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Disston D-8 Saw

MADE: 2022 ACQUIRED: 2022 FUNCTION: Crosscutting and ripping lumber

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.