On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss a ...

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Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.

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August is approaching, which means the fall Halloween season is almost here. Popular Mechanics lists some of our top picks ...

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Before the sarsens of Stonehenge were arranged, another sacred circle of megaliths towered over prehistoric Egypt. The stones ...

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Fog machines are an underrated and, frankly, underutilized device when it comes to Halloween hijinks. An intelligently placed ...

For 1,700 years, no one knew where the First Council of Nicaea actually took place. The answer may have been sitting in a ...

A new study found a four-carbon sugar named “erythrulose” in a molecular cloud in the interstellar medium (ISM) roughly ...