
Popular Mechanics US
Underground Incan Tunnels
THE INCAN TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
Accessing 37 Dimensions
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS don’t really get along, as the science of the subatomic can get...well...weird.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
AMERICA'S DEADLIEST INDUSTRIAL DISASTER WAS ERASED FROM HISTORY
THE MEN CAME TO WEST VIRGINIA WANTING NOTHING MORE THAN HONEST WORK. INSTEAD, THEY FACED A SILENT KILLER-AND A MASSIVE COVER-UP.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
THE SCAM THAT DUPED POKÉMON'S MOST OBSESSIVE CARD COLLECTORS AND THE AMATEUR SLEUTH WHO EXPOSED THE TRUTH
THE FIRST TIME Jason held a set of Pokémon cards was in 1999, when he was 9 years old and he received a pack as a birthday gift.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
Cryopreservation
PUTTING HUMANS INTO A STATE OF suspended animation has been a sci-fi aspiration for decades.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
A Fossil Rewriting Dinosaur History
A DNA STRAND LIKE ME IS A BLUEPRINT for building a living thing,\" says the anthropomorphic double-helix Mr. DNA at the start of 1993's Jurassic Park.
1 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
The Origin of Life
SCIENTISTS ARE MAKING A CASE FOR adjusting our understanding of how exactly genes first emerged.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
Chips Designed by A.I.
OUR WORLD RUNS ON COMPUTER CHIPS.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
Seismic Ghost Stories
ЈUST ABOUT EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA has its local legends-the scary stories told at sleepovers or around campfires that someone's friend or cousin always swears they totally saw for real one time.
2 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
SPINLAUNCH
LAUNCHING ROCKETS IS SERIOUS business. It takes a ton of fuel, a ton of manpower, a ton of resources, and if it goes bad, it can go really, really bad. It's also one of the least sustainable parts of an already unsustainable industry.
1 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
BUILD THIS DIY RUSTIC BENCH
DO YOU HAVE a “no shoes inside” rule at home?
5 min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
INSIDE THE RACE TO DESTROY THE WORLD'S FIRST BALLISTIC MISSILE
ON THE DAMP and dreary evening of September 8, 1944, Sapper Bernard Browning hurried through western London toward the Chiswick train station.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE CONVICTED
From Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud-ridden crypto empire to Elizabeth Holmes' sham biotech company to deepfakers on the internet bilking grandmas of their retirement savings, white-collar crime seems to touch every last corner of tech.
4 min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
The Sky-High Ambitions of Jay Graber
Bluesky is where all the lefties went in the wake of Musk’s Twitter takeover. But its CEO says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize the social internet.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
FIND MY MURDERERS
Three teens almost got away with a shocking crime. Then police decided to test the limits of Google.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
TRIVIAL PURSUITS
Esoteric programming languages are fun! Until they're derivative nonsense and kill the joke.
5 min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
SHARED SECRETS
Psst is building a digital safe to protect tech whistleblowers from recrimination.
3 min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
OBJETS D'EVIL
Villainous characters often have devilishly good taste. Put these tools to better use in your own lair.
5 min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
TWO VIOLENT YEARS ON THE TRAIL OF THE ZIZIANS
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN A GROUP OF TECHNICALLY GIFTED YOUNG PEOPLE SET OUT TO SAVE THE WORLD-AND THEN WENT WAY TOO FAR.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
A BILLION STREAMS AND NO FANS
A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of streams! Just one problem: The success might not be real.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
THE GOD OF DMT
With just a sprinkle of the drug, anything can happen: trips to other dimensions, sex with aliens, communion with your creator. Akasha Song made it by the kilo in secret labs, sold it for millions on the dark web, and—for a while—lived a literal dream.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
HOW TO WIN FOLLOWERS AND SCAMFLUENCE PEOPLE
When West Africa's notorious Yahoo Boys need to freshen up their repertoire of online scams, there's one man they turn to.
4 min |
July - August 2025

WIRED
THE PRETENDERS
Remote colleague? Keeps the camera off in meetings? Might be a North Korean operative who sneaked in to your company with a stolen identity and a heavy dose of ChatGPT.
10+ min |
July - August 2025

Popular Mechanics US
HIS FAMILY WANTED TO DONATE HIS ORGANS.
IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THIS HARD.
10+ min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
A New Human Species
ALTHOUGH ONLY ONE SPECIES OF hominin exists on the planet today—good ol' Homo sapiens—the human family once comprised a complex tableau of members. And over the years, scientists have tried to get a clearer picture of that prehistoric story by excavating ancient human sites around the world.
1 min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
A Christian Amulet
AN 1,800-YEAR-OLD SILVER amulet discovered buried in a Frankfurt, Germany, grave—still next to the chin of the man who wore it—has 18 lines of text written in Latin on just 1.37 inches of silver foil. That could be enough to rewrite the known history of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
2 min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
A Gopher Volcano
IT WOULD PROBABLY BE PRETTY ALARMING to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic eruption.
1 min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
This Whiskey Shipwreck
DURING A STORMY NIGHT IN 1878, A three-masted schooner called the James R. Bentley struck a shoal and sank to the bottom of Lake Huron on a Chicagoto-Buffalo voyage. Although the crew was rescued, the ship and its precious cargo went into the 39°F water.
2 min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
QUANTUM GRAVITY
ALMOST ALL WE KNOW about the universe boils down to the rules of quantum mechanics. Just about everything can be described as fields (electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force) and matter, and we've slowly rebuilt our understanding of the cosmos out of these fundamental building blocks.
2 min |
May - June 2025

Popular Mechanics US
D.B. Cooper
THE CHILDREN OF CONVICTED SKYJACKER Richard McCoy II believe their dear old dad may have been D. B. Cooper, the notorious central figure in 1971's unsolved skyjacking. It's in fact the only one in U.S. history without an answer—until, perhaps, now.
2 min |