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"I shall name it the Washington Bezost," he definitely didn't say. Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, will purchase the Washington Post and several of its holdings for $250 million, according to a report from, um...

Custom, printable splints could make it easier to treat minor-yet-debilitating injuries in disaster zones or underdeveloped regions. Three graduate students at UCLA's school of Architecture & Urban Design have created a ...

The rover landed on Mars a year ago today. Happy Mars-iversary, Curiosity! You've been busy. Mars rover Curiosity landed on the red planet one year ago today, so we here at Popular Science figured we'd take a look back a...

Drones are a hot new marketing trend.

A game in which players act like ants can help solve real-world tasks that traditional crowdsourcing finds difficult

Arctic ice has become progressively less reflective over the last 30 years, accelerating global warming

Bored people at bus stops could carry out useful tasks on public touchscreens and make their time pass faster too

It's a year since the Curiosity rover's daring landing on Mars. So far, it has found signs of a flowing river, tasted life-friendly soil, spawned a clone and much more

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Going deep underground in search of the elusive particles Almost a mile beneath Gran Sasso mountain in Italy sits the DarkSide detector. DarkSide, which started operating in May, is designed to capture the faint signals ...

It's a 30-micron masterpiece. A team of researchers from Georgia Tech has created the "Mini Lisa," a 30-micron thick version of the Mona Lisa. That makes it about one-third the width of a human hair. The tiny masterpiece...

Reality, relativity, causality or free will? Take quantum theory at face value and at least one of them is an illusion - but which, asks Michael Brooks (full text available to subscribers)

The first animals to evolve powered flight have long been eclipsed by our insatiable appetite for dinosaurs. Let's hear it for Mark P. Witton's Pterosaurs

Water doesn't fill a helmet so much as attempt to choke the life out of you. The horrifying behind-the-scenes, below. Two weeks ago, we were impressed by how calm ground control stayed when Italian astronaut Luca Parmita...

Is this a peek at the future of energy? A giant solar water-splitting array could help fuel a hydrogen revolution more efficiently than rival systems

Fluorescent Jell-O is easy to make and fun to eat

Male quail produce a strange foam that appears to help their sperm outcompete that of their rivals

To get vital medicines to children in need throughout Zambia, one entrepreneur started taking cues from Coca-Cola

Radical budget cuts are threatening not just US science, but its way of life