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 ...

Editor Paul Smith calls this DeWalt 12-inch miter saw “a home workshop workhorse” and notes that it’s tremendously versatile ...

The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the ...

His recreation suggests that ancient people may have been harnessing electricity millennia earlier than we thought.

Remains of one person, likely a high status individual, lay at the center of the tomb, surrounded by the gold and other human ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), ...

Since the U.S. strikes on Iran, it has launched waves of retaliatory drones against U.S. forces in the Middle East.

The Popular Mechanics gear team chose this Hisense TV as the best-value 4K model on the market. Already more affordable than ...