A Survivor of the Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History Tells Her Tale
At 70, Lela Hartman believed we would one day use technology to prevent disasters like the Tri-State Tornado she witnessed as a small child. Are we getting any closer?
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The Evolution of Gay Sex in Comic Books
The comics industry recently accused Apple of homophobia, but their history with the LGBT community is much darker than that of the tech giant.
The Dream Recorder (of 1926)
Scientists are getting closer than ever to capturing the contents of our dreams, a goal since at least the 1920s.
Is Your Cell Phone Not Ruining Your Life?
Your cell phone is killing you, destroying your relationship, frying your baby's brain, fueling war in Africa, and so on.
Nikola Tesla and the Myth of the Lone Inventor
We like our inventors to be lone geniuses, but it's almost always the case that today's giant is standing on the shoulders of yesterday's.
Adding a Horse to the Horseless Carriage of Yore
Nostalgic for the nostalgia of yesterday? Popular Science had a thriving enterprise in the 1930s that looked back at wacky inventions from earlier years.
Your Granddaddy’s TiVo
Inventors have been trying to find a way to silence ads since way before Spotify, Pandora and Grooveshark
An X-Ray a Day Keeps Diamond Smuggling at Bay
One mine in 1919 South Africa had a foolproof way to see whether its miners were smuggling out raw diamonds: it gave them a radiation-laden scan at the end of every shift.
How Etsy Got Over Middle-School-Cafeteria Syndrome
In the year after declaring diversity one of their core values, Etsy watched their female engineers drop to four out of 85.
