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At the Bionic Olympics, athletes and engineers make miracles

THE FUTURISTIC TECH AND HUMAN INGENUITY THAT’S REDEFINING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PARALYSED..

Ride The Future

An electric Harley? Yeah, right. Well, leave your prejudices at the door and reach for the neck brace.

The Town Where WIFI Is Illegal (And Yes, People Actually Live There)

The town of Green Bank, West Virginia, is home to a super powerful telescope that needs electromagnetic silence to do its important research. But is that even possible anymore?

The Tiny Action Cam That Made Us All DIYers

This changed everything

What You Need To Know About Buying A Home Standby Generator

Power Outages are unavoidable and they are increasing in both frequency and duration.

The Most Ill-Advised Weapon In US History Was Too Dangerous To Even Test

The most ill-advised weapon in US history was too dangerous to even test

The Stealth Cooling Operation Inside The Mac Pro Hardware

As I’m neither a Pixar employee nor a YouTuber, I don’t require a Mac Pro.

Build A Tiny House On Wheels

My first school-bus conversion (skoolie) was an escape.

This Guy Found An Easier Way To Solve Quadratic Equations

How your world works

Same Galaxy, New Characters, No Nostalgia: What Is Star Wars Without The Skywalkers?

For more than 40 years, Lucasfilm, and now Disney, has stretched the tale of the Skywalker family to its narrative limits.

BIG DATA FOR BEES

With global bee populations on the decline, we venture inside the hive to see how innovative technology is changing the future of beekeeping.

It's Time To Switch To Indie

While we'll always have space for Mario and Zelda in our hearts (and in our storage), the Nintendo Switch also offers countless indie games in its online store, which makes it easy to miss out on some real gems. Here are three of our recent favourites.

Why I'm Building My Own Aeroplane

’I’ve always been fascinated with aeroplanes. I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where there were barely any roads. The main road out of our area wasn’t tarred, and during the rainy season it would become flooded and muddy. When my sisters and I walked along the flooded road to school, I’d see aeroplanes flying above us. I’d be envious of whoever was in the plane because we were down on the ground, walking in mud.

After 65 Years, Supercomputers Finally Solve This Unsolvable Maths Problem

Mathematician Andrew Booker was searching for topics to present at his children’s maths club when he stumbled on a YouTube video about the sum-of-three-cubes puzzle. ‘It was a case of serendipity,’ the University of Bristol mathematics professor says. The video – produced by the popular YouTube channel Numberphile – led him to solve a curious equation that has stumped mathematicians for decades.

Sim Racing On The Rise

South African racing driver David Perel is also a sim-racer extraordinaire. With this form of racing’s meteoric rise, in the time of COVID-19, PM managed to catch up with him to ask where the world of virtual motor racing is headed.

Wild Food The Sustainable Choice

Invasive species are taking over… But what if we could eat our way out of this ecological mess?

Trust Us, Infusing Whisky Is Delicious

There’s a phase college students go through where they decide cheap, clear liquor needs an upgrade. But what, really, can an aspiring dorm-room mixologist do with a non-discerning palate, limited funds, and not enough time? Ah yes. Infuse. Just throw Skittles or frozen blueberries or any other easily accessible sweet accoutrement into the plastic bottle and wait. The resulting concoction is probably awful. It will be consumed anyway.

The Wild Idea That The Titanic Never Really Sank

Is it actually the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean? No one is denying that a ship really sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic on 15 April 1912. Or that approximately 1500 passengers aboard perished. However, there are some who suggest that the White Star Line, the ship’s parent company, pulled a fast one on the public in an insurance scam that ended up going horribly wrong.

Causality Loops And Terminator's 35-year Struggle To Make Time Travel Convincing

Science fiction is a literary laboratory for ideas that could one day fill our future. And no idea has been examined more vigorously than time travel. Terminator, the biggest time-travel franchise of them all, gets its sixth instalment with Dark Fate. The film marks James Cameron’s return to the series, as executive producer.

The World's Largest Wheeled Electric Vehicle Is A Dump Truck

Who said electric vehicles can’t do hard labour? Meet Elektro Dumper, the biggest wheeled EV on the planet. eMining AG, a Swiss manufacturer of smart construction equipment, modified a standard Komatsu HD 605-7 truck, an off-highway vehicle used in quarries and mines, to operate entirely with electric energy. Plus, the thing recharges itself using rocks.

INSIDE THE TORTURE CHAMBER

How Gore’s research lab puts the world’s most technical clothing to the test.

The Popular Mechanics: Board Game Awards

In the past 12 months, I played as many new board games as I could get my hands on.

Life Sim Game For Switch Gets A Reboot

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) is a friendly vacation simulation for the Nintendo Switch.

A New Focus While Waiting For Mt Everest

If mount everest is going to be summited, it typically happens during April and May.

Should Quentin Tarantino Make The Next Star Trek?

Back in December 2017, reports surfaced that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie.

From Building Tough 4×4s, To 3d Printing Pandemic Shields

On any given day in the English town of Gaydon, you might drive past the Jaguar Land Rover Centre just west of the small village, where staff are hard at work experimenting on the latest automotive innovations for the British manufacturer.

How To Turn Old Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, And Corn Flakes Into Beer

More Beers made with Weird Ingredients

MINES OF THE FUTURE

Intelligent systems, robotics, big data and 3D printing, in one way or another, have influenced most major industries, and advancements in these spheres are set to have a key impact on mining.

PLUG -AND- PLAY PERFORMANCE

Unleashing the hidden power and torque output from your engine is as easy as installing a nifty piece of tech.

The Polaris Scrambler is absolutely useless – and completely exhilarating

SPORT ATVs are an endangered species. Back in the glory days of 2008, just about every ATV company built a sport machine.