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America loves speed. The '60s and '70s might have produced the wildest and rarest muscle cars packing giant torque-rich V-8s, but the 1980s brought its share of powerful machines to the street, too—cars that were quick and met the more stringent emis

Follow these simple steps to create a lighted acrylic rack for your rec room to hang ping pong paddles, darts, and boxing gloves.

Last March a tsunami damaged the reactor cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, causing the leak of high levels of radiation. Owner Tokyo Electric Power Company recently released its 40-year cleanup plan.

After nearly 80 years in what Hollywood calls "development hell," John Carter—based on Edgar R. Burroughs’s classic pulp sci-fi book A Princess of Mars—finally hits the big screen on March 9.

It's warming up, so it's time to stock up. Shovels, garden knives, ultimate sharpeners and more make our list of helpful gardening gear this year.

When the radiation levels coming from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were too high to safely allow humans to enter, robots went in first. Here are three that played a major part during the emergency-response period.

The head of Oregon's Ideabox tells PM how he created the IKEA-inspired house and takes us inside one.

It's a mess up there. Earth orbit is crowded with not only working satellites but also defunct orbiters, pieces of old rockets, and other miscellany. How will we clean up the refuse of the Space Age?

The 2012 Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships are happening this week, so the half-pipe in Stratton,Vt., is full of snowboarders catching big air. Here, Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark walks us through the anatomy of a 900.

Last summer, PM spoke with James Cameron about his enthusiasm for filmmaking, engineering, and, most of all, exploration. Here, he discusses his attempt to dive the Challenger Deep in detail.

The American small-batch distillers from our feature story about the DIY distilling revival share their favorite cocktail recipes.

While augmented reality and slick touchscreens are everywhere in consumer electronics, airline pilots still spend their hours staring at minimalist, outdated graphics. But slowly, the aviation industry is starting to catch up to the information revolution

The 2012 Geneva Motor Show is widely regarded as the most extravagant event of the motoring calendar, so car companies must get especially creative to draw the crowds. We rounded up ten of the most impressive, outlandish, or just plain clever exhibits.

Night driving isn't just annoying, it's dangerous. Here are 10 of our favorite tips to make your nocturnal migrations safer and better.

The newest tablet from Cupertino doesn't look much different, but comes with 4G LTE and a super high-res screen. The upshot: We think Apple wants to make the iPad a true competitor to the sharpness of the printed page.

Forensic anthropologists have reconstructed the faces of two Union sailors found onboard the USS Monitor, 150 years after the world’s first battle between ironclad warships off the coast of North Carolina.

A game that lets you respawn when you die can only be so realistic. Yet big-budget games do manage to combine authenticity with entertainment. We consulted with a few experts to find out how much of today's shooters are based on real-world military tech.

Our wood-frame houses just aren’t built to withstand tornado forces, as the pictures from storm-ravaged towns this weekend attest. But you can strengthen your home to make it more resistant to high winds.

The new design devised by a team of Penn State graduate researchers opens up a future of sustainable wastewater treatment.

One of the auto industry’s biggest showcases is happening this week in Switzerland. Here are live shots from the floor of the 2012 Geneva International Motor Show.

On Friday, deadly tornadoes ripped through Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, and many other states. How bad was the outbreak, historically, and is the U.S. about to endure an extreme tornado season?

The Hearst Tower, where the Popular Mechanics offices live, just received a new honor for the company’s 125th birthday: platinum LEED certification for energy efficiency from the Green Building Council.