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Technology Editor Mark Jannot on the origin of our sixth-annual tear-things-apart-and-look-inside package I'll confess, I'm not a particularly ardent consumer of reader research, studies that are...
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Science Two years ago, I sat with roughly 1,500 fellow attendees of the annual TED Conference and listened as one of the world's greatest explorers explained why we must stop… Two years ago, I sat...
View ArticleNow Live: The February 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, has some questions about humanoid rescue robots. In 2010, I had the pleasure of writing our cover story about CHARLI-L, the first bipedal,...
View ArticleNow Live: The March 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, wonders why we can't get into the same funding spirit for science as we do for supertall skyscrapers. Why do we build incredibly tall buildings? What is...
View ArticleNow Live: The June 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Science Editor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on how the Kardashev Scale is an elegant way of describing our dreams In the early 1960s, a Soviet astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev, was contemplating mysterious...
View ArticleNow Live: The July 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Flight is freedom. The power to rise into the air and reach a destination unshackles us from gravity, distance, topography, and time. This is why we, as a publication, return…
View ArticleThe Editor's Letter From The September 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
I had lunch in Los Angeles recently with a friend who hosts science videos on the Web. She interviews scientists, explains fundamental scientific principles, tours amazing…
View ArticleThe Editor's Letter From The November 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Technology The world belongs to engineers. I mean no offense to designers. As a journalist, I covered design for several years and developed a high opinion of it. If nothing else,…
View ArticleThe Editor's Letter From The October 2014 Issue Of Popular Science
Science Read the full issue online now. In the spring of 1893, the city of Chicago hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition, better known as the Chicago World’s Fair. For a young nation, the event...
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