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These Tips to Increase Your Home's Water Pressure

WHEN SHOWERHEADS IN YOUR HOME ARE WEAK, water dribbles out of faucets, and the washing machine takes forever to fill, the problem could be low water pressure

If We'll Ever Reach Warp Speed

THE SECRET TO FASTER-THAN-LIGHT physics could be to double down on the number of dimensions, according to research published last December in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity

How Sonar Actually Works

IN THE EARLY DAYS OF WORLD WAR II, ALLIED navies faced a stark challenge: how to detect Germany's growing fleet of U-boats and prevent them from repeating the havoc wrought in World War I

PlayStation VR 2 Is the Second Chance for Blockbuster VR

SONY'S PLAYSTATION VIRTUAL REALITY (PSVR) 2 headset represents the next generation of highfidelity VR

The Truth Is Out There.So Is Lue Elizondo.

Unidentified craft are entering restricted U.S. airspace. Elizondo wants to ensure they don't cause the next Pearl Harbor

CAN STRUCTURAL BATTERIES SAVE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT?

The two largest aircraft manufacturers in the world have snubbed battery-operated aircraft. Researchers in Europe think they might have (part of) a solution: Make the plane out of the battery

What It's Like Inside an M1 Abrams

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Achieving Nuclear Fusion Ignition

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What's Lurking Behind the Milky Way

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After You Die, Monica Torres Can Bring Life Back to Your Body

The groundbreaking mortician is pioneering new techniques to restore the dead and provide closure to grieving families.

Home Theater

Cue up a cinematic even Spielberg experience that would envy.

Carburetors vs. Fuel-Injection

CARBURETORS USE THE VACUUM CREATED by the intake stroke of the engine to force air through their ports and passages. As the air flows through, it simultaneously forces fuel into the combustion chamber.

KTM Used Fuel Injection to Revamp Two-Stroke Engines

TWO-STROKE ENGINES USED TO BE UBIQUITOUS IN DIRT bike racing, thanks to their lightweight construction and horsepower. Packed in a dirt bike frame, they make a motorcycle playful in the corners and plenty fast when the throttle's wide open.

Colorful, Accurate Inkjet Printers for Your Documents and Photos

BETWEEN TODAY'S REMOTE-WORKPLACE DEMANDS and a looming tax season, you likely have a lot of paperwork on your hands. You need a reliable printer to quickly crank out hard copies of important documents.

IMPLEMENTS of CONSTRUCTION

POPULAR MECHANICS TOOL AWARDS 2023

HAVE SOME SCRAP WOOD? MAKE THIS DIY SHAKER STEP STOOL

We built this little stool using just a few common tools and some scrap wood. For accurate crosscuts, we recommend using a miter saw. For the notch, a table saw is the better choice.

Treasure Hunters May Have Found JESSE JAMES'S LOST GOLD

The legendary treasure could be worth tens of millions-if the team can dig it out of the ground.

Nixing the Chaotic Leap Second

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The Fast Approach to Cleaning Your Car

KEEPING YOUR CAR'S EXTERIOR SPICK-AND-span not only makes your ride look good but, in some cases, can even make it more efficient.

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.

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.

Back-Breaking Work Requires Some Help

Everyone feels the hurt as you age, but CBD can help you deal with it

Whether Earth Once Harbored a Pre-Human Industrial Civilization

Complex life on our planet has existed for at least 400 million years.

The Unrelenting Roar of a Crypto Mine Tore This Town Apart

Cryptocurrency aims to revolutionize finance, but its mines are destroying communities across America.

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?

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.

22 Greatest Tools in the History of the World

Tools make us human, but we are not the only ones who use tools. Some birds drop rocks to crack shells open, and certain apes use sticks to get food or groom themselves.

Disston D-8 Saw

MADE: 2022 ACQUIRED: 2022 FUNCTION: Crosscutting and ripping lumber

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.