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The Pentagon, 1943 PopSci's first looks at the Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and more We've heard it said that Rome wasn't built in a day. And while Popular Science isn't old enough to have witnessed the Colosseum going u

LaserMotive's Laser-Powered Helo New Scientist An unmanned aerial surveillance drone is only as good as its power source, and as such many technologies are being considered that could drastically extend the duration of drone missions - for instance, DARP

James Bond, Evelyn Salt, Jason Bourne... One thing you'll notice about all secret agents (at least, the ones worthy of Hollywood franchise love) is that if they need to get the hell outta Dodge, ANY vehicle will do. These super-spies are just as comfortab

Protecting Military Networks Thinking about WikiLeaking? Think again. U.S. Navy The recent WikiLeaks exposure was a huge black eye for the U.S. Department of Defense, supposedly one of the more secure state organizations we have working for us. Its impact

Wing Ejected A shrunken F/A-18 target drone equipped with a new, advanced fly-by-wire system was able to return home safely after losing up to 80% of one wing. Rockwell CollinsAn advanced fly-by-wire system capable of landing grossly damaged unmanned a

Crashing Satellites at CU-Boulder Image courtesy LASP Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado) Call it a crash course. A group of undergrads at the University of Colorado at Boulder got to participate i

Locked Up Andrew Bardwell via Wikimedia Americans have a prison problem -- namely, we've got a whole lot of people in prisons and that's a huge drain not only on hard money in our public coffers, but on man-hours lost by both the inmates and the people w

The Silicon Oxide Chip Jun Yao/Rice University Even with great strides being made regularly in the realms of nanotech and materials science, Moore's Law - the notion that the number of transistors that can be placed on a given integrated circuit doubles

The DM-2 Awaits Its Test Fire NASA In Utah today, NASA completed a successful test of the world's largest, most powerful solid rocket motor, the DM-2. For two minutes, the motor, designed to provide up to 3.6 million pounds of thrust, roaringly fired a c

Inside the ISS The cramped, isolated quarters inside the ISS provide a good model for the conditions experienced by the miners trapped in Chile. NASA is advising the Chilean government on how to keep the miners physically and mentally healthy while they a

Satellites may be docking together in orbit -- are they building Voltron? Though the world found out about it through a Russian media outlet, China has been conducting complicated space maneuvers with two of its science satellites over the past few months

This Week in the Future, August 23-27, 2010 Baarbarian Our beverage-powered alien robot overlords discipline us with pain rays. But at least our socks are tidy. Welcome to the future. This week in the future on PopSci: New Biofuel Cell Demonstrated; Cou

Inside a Quantum Cryptography Scheme Vadim Makarov Quantum cryptography is one of the most secure known means of transmitting data, due to the fact that even if a third party does intercept a quantum signal, that interference changes the encryption key,

Using Nanotech to Reach Every Drop of Oil Flcelloguy via Wikimedia You can't throw a rock in the realm of biotech right now without hitting some scheme or another for tapping the unique properties of nanoparticles to hunt tumors, target drug delivery, or

Hang on to your beers Researchers at Yale's Grab Lab aren't about to let the nuances of rotary-wing flight restrict what unmanned aerial vehicles can do. A team there has developed a hand-like modular grasping and manipulation platform that can be fitted

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