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“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?
Crabs Revolutionizing the Battery Industry
EVERY YEAR, WE PRODUCE ABOUT 6 TO 8 million tons of crab, shrimp, and lobster shell waste globally, with most of it dumped straight back into the ocean or into landfills.
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.
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.
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.
Disston D-8 Saw
MADE: 2022 ACQUIRED: 2022 FUNCTION: Crosscutting and ripping lumber
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.
Valve's Steam Deck Makes PC Gaming Truly Portable
MOBILE GAME SYSTEMS HAVE LONG BEEN VIEWED AS inferior to gaming computers and consoles. That's because their smaller components are often too weak to keep up with the rising graphics demands of new titles.
Track Saws Help You Cut Straight, Like a Pro
NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, TRACK SAWS WERE N made by only a handful of companies and were employed almost exclusively by professional tradesmen.
Solving This Maddening Probability Problem
Can't Stop Thinking about
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Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Gen 7 (2022): Nearly an Editors' Choice
A solid gaming laptop for under 2,000
Apple TV 4K 3rd Generation): Best for the Apple-Centric
A powerful, feature-rich media streamer that’s pricier than most
SMART HOME
SMART HOME
HIGH IMPACT
Photographer Neil Buckland captures the mosaic of minerals in meteorites.
SEE NO EVIL
Companies pay millions to get their digital ads in front of humans. Shady networks show them to bots instead. And everyone is fine with this.
The Digital Payments Mastermind
DIARY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR
ONCE MOORE
Rereading the most influential article of the 20th century.