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When astronauts are given amazing cameras on board the ISS, they point them towards home. Astronauts take a lot of photos of Earth, for personal use and for specific experiments on board the International Space Station. ...

Fried explains how group workshops drive a new kind of innovation. When tinkerers want to collaborate, trade tips, or just hang out, many head to communal workshops called hackerspaces. Hardware guru Limor Fried explains...

Imagine a future in which no one died anymore waiting for an organ. Harvard researchers have taken a major step toward that reality by transplanting a lab-grown kidney into an animal and showing that it works.

The Kickstarter co-founder on a growing source of grassroots venture capital Most independent inventors don't have bottomless bank accounts. To fund their dreams, many innovators are appealing to strangers on the Web for...

Gee whiz, an electronic accountant! When Popular Science tested the first computer programs to prepare tax returns in February 1983, we wanted to know two things: Would it be faster than doing it by hand? Would it save u...

It's a start. Have you ever had trouble assembling IKEA furniture? Trying until you're convinced there must've been a screw that fell out or something and are the legs of this table backwards and look at that gelatinous ...

"Pass-thoughts" can be used wirelessly to authenticate users. When it's been a while since you last signed into your bank account, password hints can trigger your memory and help you recall your code word. But future sec...

The future of interfaces often looks just like the present, but in neon. When Ubisoft announced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon on April 1, everyone assumed it was a joke. Retro, 16-bit style, and a plot set in the "futuristic y...

A system that connects multiple phones into wireless networks opens up a new vista of possibilities, from funky photo effects to enhanced live events

Amazing! But why does this exist? With a webcam, a projector, and special software, researchers from Fujitsu Laboratories have made an awesome (and unexpected) mix of dead-tree and digital tech: a system that turns paper...

The new UK particle accelerator VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator) has achieved a significant electron acceleration milestone, which heralds exciting new opportunities for industry to apply the latest particle ...

Use of lab chimps could be phased out thanks to a newly found virus in deer mice, which could provide a new animal model for work on hepatitis C

Offshore wind farms are finally arriving on US shores - and they're doing it with foreign help. Plans to install Cape Wind, a 468 MW, 130 turbine wind farm in the waters off the Massachusetts coast just took a major step...

Stomping in from the future at a menacing 1 kilometer per hour Meet the Mantis Walking Machine. Designed by Matt Denton and his team at Micromagic Systems, it's a 2-ton, 9-foot-tall, 50-horsepower hexapod (six-appendaged...

A new exhibition by artist Janet Laurence captures our troubled relationship with ecosystems with powerful, unusual techniques

Waste heat costs us billions and messes with our climate - now there's a grand plan to round it up and put it to work (full text available to subscribers)

This shot of a wild bonobo was taken after she had eaten orange clay to neutralise plant toxins

It's a drone on a leash. Autogyros are the duck-billed platypuses of the aviation world. They look like helicopters, operate on the same principles as airplanes, and can be pulled like a kite. And if L-3's new Valkyrie d...

Chemical warfare is centuries old, but rapid advances in science could create deadly new weapons. We must act now, says British MP Alistair Burt