Editor’s Picks: What the PopMech Editors Loved This Month
From household spring cleaning products to cast iron pans, our editors tested dozens of products, but only a few made the cut.
A Metal Detectorist Discovered 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Daggers With A Mysterious Purpose
A metal detectorist recently discovered not one, but two bronze and wood daggers that experts dated to over 3,000 years ago. Only the bronze portions of the instruments survived for so long buried in ...
An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity
This new propulsion system could rewrite the rules of spaceflight—not to mention completely defy conventional physics.
Archaeologists Discovered a 2,200-Year-Old Pyramid. They Can't Explain its Purpose—Yet.
Archaeologists discovered a 2,200-year-old pyramid structure in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that featured stones ...
Boy, This New Single-Seater Flying Car Sure Is Exciting! Too Bad It Will Never Take Off.
The claimed fix-all for unclogging road traffic sounds brilliant, but here’s why the idea could face considerable headwinds.
Don’t Cry Because the Mercedes-Benz A-Class Is Dead. Celebrate What Killed It.
While U.S. markets lost the Mercedes A-Class in 2022, the German automaker recently announced it wouldn’t renew the A-Class ...
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America
Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.
Scientists Built a Memory Device That Doesn’t Lose Power—and the Implications Are Mind-Blowing
Magnetoresistive random-access memory, or MRAM, promises to make computers more efficient and powerful, but a few hurdles ...
Scientists Developed a Concrete That’s A Step Further Than Carbon Neutral: Carbon Negative
The concrete industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, but a new study says that it could ...