Install
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
- 114articles · 30d
- 2+ day agolatest article
- Aug 14, 2026earliest in window
- 88%with images
- 289avg words
- Science & Technology 56
- Science & Nature 48
- History 29
- STEM 28
- People & Society 20
- Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 19
- Home & Hobbies 16
- Home & Garden 13
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Paleontologists Are Discovering Ancient Sharks—in the Sandy Egyptian Desert
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (206+ words) Long before it dried out, what’s now Egypt was a tropical Cretaceous sea. “[Phosphates drove] intense primary productivity that sustained a diverse trophic web,” the researchers wrote in their study. “This could be supported by the presence of small fishes,…...
This Man Thought He Bought a Fox Head With Googly Eyes. It Was Actually an Extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (242+ words) He bought the taxidermied head at an antique store for $70. It just sold for $85,000. “It was quite a shock to discover we were sitting on something so special,” Andrew Stowe, an auctioneer and valuer at Auctioneum who eventually sold the…...
Scientists Buried 2,000 Pairs of Underwear. Two Months Later, the Disturbing Result Confirmed Their Worst Fears.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (299+ words) Adding a whole new meaning to the phrase “soiled underwear.” Life begins with dirt. A vast majority of the food we eat originates with soil. Soil helps store carbon, acting as one of the largest carbon reservoirs on Earth. Soil…...
A Staggering Fish Could Have Been Alive Before the United States Existed—and May Still Be Swimming Today, Research Suggests
1+ week, 4+ day ago (227+ words) The fish’s extreme lifespan could reshape how conservationists protect it. “Scientists have long recognized that lake sturgeon are among North America’s longest-lived freshwater fish,” MSU’s Scott Colborne, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “But the new…...
The Mutant Wolves of Chernobyl Have Evolved to Survive Cancer
1+ week, 6+ day ago (635+ words) In the shadow of nuclear disaster, these canines show remarkable resilience to the deadly disease. On April 26, 1986, disaster struck near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border when a series of steam explosions led to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, then…...
43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (369+ words) It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem. It would probably be pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic…...
A Strange Fossilized Egg Has Surfaced from the Frozen Depths of Antarctica
2+ week, 4+ day ago (244+ words) Popular Mechanics Antarctica’s Strange Fossilized Egg A mysterious fossil from Antarctica has been identified as the largest soft-shelled egg ever discovered—and the second-largest known egg of any kind. A Record-Breaking Ancient Egg About 68 million years ago, near the end…...
A Freshwater Giant Living in the Great Lakes May Be Older than the United States
3+ week, 5+ day ago (235+ words) Decades of tagging data suggest lake sturgeon could live well past 400 years old. “Scientists have long recognized that lake sturgeon are among North America’s longest-lived freshwater fish,” MSU’s Scott Colborne, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement....