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Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark
The Olympics ended on Sunday, but if we know our readers, many of you were still glued to your televisions as the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week began, with hours upon hours of programming dedicated...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Hunts For Mythical Beasts
We don’t see a lot of cryptozoology – the study of animals that have not yet been proven to exist – in the pages of PopSci these days, but that’s what we have the archives for. Buried within the...
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Archive Gallery: Beauty Secrets of Popular Science
Despite having a readership made up mostly of men, Popular Sciences of old knew their way around a beauty parlor. Especially from the 20s to the 40s, PopSci offered makeup tips and advice to female...
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Archive Gallery: Automobile Safety Tips
The Seven Keys to Safety: March 1948. Pop Sci Archives As terrifying as this cover is, we won’t lie, it’s a pretty accurate depiction of how we feel about our vehicles on a bad day. Car maintenance...
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Archive Gallery: Classic Thrill Rides and Carnival Attractions
Our archives are filled with terrifying things — flying tanks, radium faucets, and groundbreaking lobotomy techniques, to name a couple — but few of them are as deliberately scary as the past...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Gigantic Portable Gadgets
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › In between the newest line of Amazon Kindles, the upcoming iPhone 5 announcement, and...
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Archive Gallery: Offbeat Uses for Common Household Objects
Garden Hose: July 1955. Pop Sci Archives Venture into any apartment, and you’re likely to find an object used for something other than its intended purpose. We’ve seen ground coffee used to repel...
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Archive Gallery: Mail Order Kits, From the Back Pages of PopSci
Radio hats. DIY jetpacks. Even those of us who never experienced a time when you could purchase science projects for $4.95 and telescope lenses for $1.95 can’t help feeling a twinge of longing looking...
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Archive Gallery: The Geodesic Life
When it comes to practicality, geodesic domes are a contractor’s worst nightmare. Where can you get windows that conform to hexagonal panels? Where should you install the pipes? Would a chimney look...
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Archive Gallery: Classic Car Advertisements from the Pages of PopSci
'59 Chevrolet: November 1958. Pop Sci Archives It’s not often that you flip through a copy of Popular Science without seeing something about cars, be it a feature on eco-friendly automobiles, a...
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Archive Gallery: The Rise of Personal Computers
Time-Sharing on a Datanet-30: May 1967. Pop Sci ArchivesWe may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › As someone who was born in the...
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Archive Gallery: In Defense of Evolutionary Theory
Aftermath of the Scopes Trial: September 1929. Pop Sci Archives In all our years of covering science, no issue has invited controversy like evolution, and that includes the debate on climate change...
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Archive Gallery: How the Space Age Influenced Design
During the 1950s, architecture, cars, and gadget design took on a curiously spaceflight-inspired aesthetic. Manufacturers built vehicles with ornamental tailfins. Upswept roofs and parabolas cropped...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Sensational World War II Headlines
After celebrating the 67th anniversary of D-Day this week, it’s only fitting that we publish a gallery documenting World War II-era PopSci. A warning, though: this was the 1940s, so practically...
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Archive Gallery: Strange Sports of Tomorrow
Parachute Sledding: February 1935. Pop Sci Archives If you’ve ever felt puzzled by the lack of similarities between polo and water polo, you’re not alone; clearly, one inventor from the 1930s thought...
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Archive Gallery: 10 Ways to Beat the Heat Without Air Conditioning
When you ask people what technologies they can’t live without, they typically name cars, the Internet, and indoor plumbing as essentials to living comfortably. But after suffering through relentless...
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In his first PopSci appearance, a young Stephen Hawking explains an...
Are we close to deciding the fate of the universe?. Popular Science, December 1980 How will the universe end? Will it sputter out in a realm of ice, cooling continually as it expands until it reaches...
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#TBT to 1947: Introducing the Polaroid Camera
An illustration of the original Polaroid Land camera. Popular ScienceWe may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › This story was...
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Here’s what we had to say about Voyager 1 when it launched 41 years ago
An artist's rendering of a Voyager spacecraft flying past Jupiter, Saturn, and their respective moons. Popular Science, August 1977 A conception of Voyager 1 in space. NASA On September 5, 1977,...
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Century-old ship logs show how much ice the Arctic has lost
When retired Canadian meteorologist Michael Purves transcribes the handwritten notes from an ancient ship’s log, he finds himself transported back in time a century, imagining he is on board an old...
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