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Who doesn't love a good mystery, especially one that stumps researchers?  Popular Science's editor-in-chief, Cliff Ransom, moderated a panel about such seemingly inexplicable phenomena this weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego. The occasion: the de...

Grenade Explosion U.S.

Corn Field AmeriFlux Crop-munching caterpillars in Brazil are no longer put off by genetically modified plants designed to kill them, Reuters reports.

Enceladus's South Pole.

Syringe Wikimedia Commons When you get a vaccine, it's typically injected into the muscle below the skin with a needle.

The site isn't quite there yet, even though I think this product is pretty cool.

Detail From Top 10 Mapathon India Winners The number one is in Pathankot, which is very near the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Diatoms.

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The final graphic Office for Creative Research For the July issue of Popular Science, we—the Office for Creative Research—created a data visualization celebrating NASA’s long history of aerospace innovation. Since 1959, NASA has publishe...

Ever since NASA established its history program in 1959, the agency has periodically compiled the world’s aeronautics advances into a single report.

Pills with different components don't always look this different.

"Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov Illustration by Ryan Inzana This is an excerpt from Popular Science's special issue, Dispatches From The Future.

Long Service U.S.

The USS Honolulu Interrupts Some Polar Bears Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy via Wikimedia Commons Polar bears are the largest land predators in the world.