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Trees are in trouble
Popular Mechanics — This paper came from years of research in which a slew researchers-including many grad students pulled along for the ride-counted trees, one by one. Climate studies such as this need years of data for scientists to see trends beyond simple ...More…
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Ashkelon Desalination Plant, Israel
Popular Mechanics — An Israeli employee inspects membranes that extract salt from the water at Ashkelon's seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant, south of Tel Aviv. Ashkelon's desalination plant is one the biggest in the world. (Photograph by David ...More…
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Here, at the annual meeting
Popular Mechanics — Nearly 90,000 people were killed during a major earthquake in China last year. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) Slow-slip events are not a source of any harm to humans, but they can help scientists predict the next devastating quake. By ...More…
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Can Fish Teach us to Make Hydropower in Calm Waters?
Popular Mechanics — The University of Michigan team's design harnesses these alternating vortexes: Aluminum cylinders joined to built-in electromagnets form a ladder-shaped device. As flowing currents swirl past a cylinder, the vortexes that form above and below ...More…
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Mount Redoubt's volcano
Popular Mechanics — Fumarolic activity on the north side of the volcano is associated with the most recent unrest at Redoubt Volcano. (Photograph by Kristi Wallace/AVO/USGS) On Dec. 15, 1989, KLM flight 867 intercepted an ash cloud that Redoubt had exhaled just 90 ...More…
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Pacific Ocean, 142° W, 12° N -
Popular Mechanics — RV JOIDES Resolution arrives in Honolulu after succesful sea trails and test of scientific and drilling equipment. (Photograph by Bill Crawford, IODP) For the last two years the drillship JOIDES Resolution has been in the Singapore shipyards, ...More…
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Who Owns the Rain? Hint: It's Not Always Homeowners
Popular Mechanics — While laws about rainwater collection are often murky, Colorado's are quite clear: Homeowners do not own the rain that falls on their property. The Rocky Mountain state uses a convoluted mix of first-come, first-serve water rights, some of which ...More…
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One of the greatest
Popular Mechanics — The researchers travelled to a coastal ice formation called Pakitsoq in western Greenland, a location with ample solid ice that had captured and stored the ancient methane they were seeking. Analyzing the ice first involved cutting large chunks ...More…
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Photos: The Largest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched
Popular Mechanics — Steve Eves' one-tenth scale model Saturn V, which flew April 25 in Maryland, is the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully. Eves' single-stage behemoth was powered by nine motors-eight 13,000 Newton-second ...More…
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Man is "weak in himself, and of small stature,"
Popular Mechanics — While much has changed since Carlyle's day, one thing hasn't: We need tools to build, repair and maintain the mechanical world in which we live. With these 50 tools, you'll be ready for just about any project-whether it's melting mountains ...More…
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The Best Pontiacs in Film, Music and TV (with Video!)
Popular Mechanics — What else could Needham and Reynolds have chosen as the cop car to catch a Lamborghini Countach in But Burt and Hal were not the only moviemakers that were into Trans Ams. Here's one from the "other" Yes, the Trans Am stole most of the ...More…
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I was always a fan of those
Popular Mechanics — And the wheels fit onto those beautiful finned brake drums. I thought-that's just the coolest wheel I've ever seen. So I really liked those big Pontiacs. And, of course, what kid didn't go crazy for the GTO-the car that started the whole ...More…