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If kayak fishing sounds like a surefire way to get a dunking, then check out the super-stable designs that allow men to catch 157-pound bluefin tuna from 12-foot, arm-powered boats.

Welcome back, Insight.The original and forward-looking Insight hybrid left Honda's product line in 2006, but has returned for 2010. We've added one of the fuel-sippers to our long-term test fleet.

Ford's biggest pickup offers gargantuan towing capability and an amazingly cushy ride. But could this big rig also be a fuel-economy champ?

Just in time for summer, a drop-top version of the new Mercedes E-Class debuts. With a new turbulence-reducing header flap, could this be the first convertible that drives top-down all year?

The six-week build portion of the 2010 FIRST Robotics competition has come to an end. PM spoke with teams from schools across the country to learn what strategies will be key at regionals, and at the FIRST championship in mid-April.

If there's any filmed world that's made for 3D, it's Wonderland. PM talks to Alice in Wonderland's visual effects supervisor, Ken Ralston, to find out how he and Tim Burton created an immersive 3D world-without using stereoscopic cameras.

News of cost overruns roil the debate over the world's two most advanced warplanes, the costly F-22 Raptor and the too-big-to-fail F-35 Lightning II. Will UAVs be the final victor?

Scientists at AAAS 2010 talk about the need for better transparency in science, particularly for climate research. Here is what they have to say.

PM sits down with Melissa Milgrom to discuss taxidermy-how to preserve your own squirrel, how the art form is changing and why there's more to taxidermy than just stuffing.

Fringe pushed the envelope this week with a rip that sends two dimensions colliding in horrific ways. We talk with physicist Sean Carroll of the California Institute of Technology to see if Fringe can boast facts two weeks in a row.

Private jet travel is convenient, luxurious and, of course, very expensive. The HondaJet represents an effort at changing that, by using technology and design to bring costs down and allow private-jet travel at costs that approach commercial ticket prices

In last night's episode of Lost, "Sundown," flash-sideways Sayid used another man's body to take a bullet. But does this method of defense actually work? Popular Mechanics talked to a forensic scientist to find out.

While the other auto shows present cars and trucks American buyers are guaranteed to love, they don't necessarily represent automakers fuel economy concerns. That's where Geneva comes in. Here are the 10 coolest cars from the 2010 show.

For a hardy band of Michiganders, winter, ice and well-used cars create an ideal, low-bucks racing fix.