On the night of September 18, 1980, a Titan II missile carrying a thermonuclear warhead exploded in rural Arkansas. Here’s what the terrifying incident was like, from those who were there.
The potential truth of what really killed nine hikers in the remote Russian mountains in 1959 may be far stranger than the conspiracy theories—a yeti, anyone?—floated to date. Could evidence now point ...
The legendary mystery of Jack the Ripper’s true identity, an enigma that has endured for over a century, may come to an end thanks to the re-emergence of an old memento and a new theory proposed by a ...
The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the ...
Remains of one person, likely a high status individual, lay at the center of the tomb, surrounded by the gold and other human ...
His recreation suggests that ancient people may have been harnessing electricity millennia earlier than we thought.
Understanding solar panel capacity tells you how much power you can create and how fast you can do it—in the right conditions ...
It’s generally understood that Earth’s population is somewhere around 8.2 billion people. That’s the baseline we use to plan ...
While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...
The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...
The Popular Mechanics gear team chose this Hisense TV as the best-value 4K model on the market. Already more affordable than ...
The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed ...