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Twelve photos that capture the wonder of Apollo 11
Half a century ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins took a trip to the moon. Science has come a long way since then—we sent a spacecraft to sample an asteroid, have...
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This DIY-er found a boat he liked in the PopSci archives. Then he built it.
The newly minted boat builder thinks he might try a spin-off project soon: the Enterprise NX-2. Tom Riti Tom Riti of Port Royal, Virginia, built a pontoon boat from the Popular Science archives … and...
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Higher than man ever built before
Workers at the Empire State Building site defied death by vaulting one-fifth of a mile up on ropes and girders. Popular Science In January 1931, Popular Science documented the death-defying process of...
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The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine
In 1921, scientists sent a patient's heart beat through phone lines. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci. In the Are we there yet?...
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Inside the deadly heart of 1964’s Hurricane Cleo
Snowcloud One's flight into the eye. Popular Science, December 1964 Late last month, Hurricane Harvey ravaged Texas, and Hurricane Irma is now poised to bring destruction to Florida. Both storms have...
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The Curious Genius Of Amar Bose
Amar Bose “Better Living Through Curiosity,” by Tom Clynes, originally appeared in the December 2004 issue of Popular Science_ magazine. Inventor and engineer Amar Bose died July 12, 2013, at his home...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Spies on the Soviet Union
When it comes to technological advances, few periods were as prolific as the Cold War era, which saw the mass distribution of color TV sets, the ubiquity of electrically-powered domestic appliances,...
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Archive Gallery: Popular Science’s Brief Foray Into Pseudoscience
One less-than-desirable (to us, anyway) byproduct of the radio's popularity in the early part of the century was the resurgence of horoscopes. Day after day, scores of gullible audiences listened to...
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Here’s our original coverage of Apollo 11
Forty-eight years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first footprints on the Moon, and it was epic. Popular Science covered this enormous achievement with an article by...
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Happy Pi Day! 10 Useful Things You Can Make With A Pie Tin
Popular Science archives Today is Pi Day (the cool cousin of January 23’s Pie Day) and, to celebrate, we’ve compiled 10 fun and easy pie-tin crafts from the Popular Science archives. What do a hipster...
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Can music help animals relax?
At the Central Park Zoo, a band tests an elephant's musical taste. Popular Science WHEN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHT William Congreve wrote, “Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast” in his 1697 tragedy The...
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Archive Gallery: How Science Made Movies Awesome
When was the last time a film scene blew your mind? Plenty of people will cite Avatar‘s dizzying 3-D battle sequences. Others may name the rotating hotel hallway scene in this summer’s Inception. Now...
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How science came to rely on the humble lab rat
The article as it appeared in the May 1927 issue of Popular Science. Since Aristotle, scientists have vivisected, poked, and prodded live animals in pursuit of knowledge (Pavlov’s dog, anyone?), but...
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How Popular Science covered ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in 1968
The future is here. That’s the feeling you get when you leave the theater after seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey, the most realistic science-adventure movie ever filmed. It uses an astonishing combination...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Quirkiest DIY Projects
DIY projects have been a hallmark of Popular Science since we started printing articles with pictures. These contraptions ranged from homemade neutrodyne radio sets, to tractors, to borderline illegal...
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Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still has...
PopSci author P.J. Risdon subjects himself to an emotion-tracking experiment in 1921 London. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci. In...
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How Science Has Battled Natural Disasters
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. The Category 3 storm flooded 80 percent of the city of New Orleans and killed at least 1,836 people in the U.S. Eight years...
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The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea
Skyscraper architect Harvey W. Corbett came up with a future city that converted streets into gathering places. That idea is making a comeback. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers,...
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From the archives: The promising new world of solar power—in the 1950s
“Sun furnace goes to work” by Alden P. Armagnac appeared in the March 1954 issue of Popular Science. Popular Science To mark our 150th year, we’re revisiting the Popular Science stories (both hits and...
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Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed
Without Esther Lederberg, our understanding of how bacteria replicate might have been incomplete. Esther Goh The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So...
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