As the Cold War raged in the wake of humanity’s increasing understanding of nuclear science — and history’s very first use of an atomic bomb —...
The fastest recorded human time to solve a Rubik’s Cube is Max Park’s 3.15 seconds — but Mitsubishi’s TOKUFASTbot has solved one in about 1/10th as...
Siberia’s Batagaika Crater is about 215 acres in area, and local residents refer to it as the ‘Gateway to Hell.’ It’s a retrogressive thaw slump so...
Miracle cures and quack medicine crashed into a new era of science during the dawn of Radionics. While history is rife with fake medicine and medical...
If you expected that a global pandemic would give animals an opportunity to thrive, well… we did, too. But a sophisticated tracking study showed that animal...
Only one brand of snowmobile is currently allowed in Yellowstone National Park, and it’s not because the park service or government picked a winner. Ski-Doo is...
You’ve probably got a ton of VHS tapes in a box somewhere — but why *don’t* you have any Capacitance Electronic Discs (CED)?. Despite being an...
Imagine a Slim Jim that’s 20 feet long and weighs 200 pounds — that’s basically a python. And in Thailand and Vietnam, python farming is yielding...
What happens when scientists and futurists predict the year 2000… in the 1960s? In Popular Science, Walter Cronkite chronicled the state of science and technology in...
Do you know about VisiTel? Video calling technology is such a mundane feature of smartphones now that it would be weird if a device *didn’t* have...