This Winter Has Been a Doozy—Here’s How PopMech Editors Managed to Weather the Latest Snow Storm

This winter is one for the books. It hasn’t been an easy one to navigate—even for the most rugged of PopMech editors. Here on ...

People Could Be ‘Resurrected’ in Robotic Bodies One Day, Futurist Believes. Now He’s Taken the First Step.

In 2016, his close partner, AI engineer Eugenia Kuyda, rebuilt him as a chatbot, a grief experiment that later evolved into ...

The AI Boom is Making Tech More Expensive: What Shoppers Should Expect in 2026

The AI industry’s unquenchable appetite for computing power led to higher prices on PC components. This year, we may see ...

Scientists Just Watched These Entities Rapidly Evolve In Space. They Could Save Your Life.

In a new study, scientists analyzed how this biological battle played out between a strain of Escherichia coli ( E. Coli) and ...

Scientists Think They Found a Way to Boost Your Immune System—and Slow Down Your Aging

The immune system function declines with age, but a team of MIT researchers may have found a way to rejuvenate it. When older ...

Companies Aren’t Always Transparent About the Power of Generators. Here’s How Not to Get Duped.

Every generator and power station has two numbers listed on it: starting watts (sometimes called surge or peak watts) and ...

Scientists Deciphered Humanity’s Earliest Star Map. It Had Literally Been Erased From History.

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...

Archaeologists Found a 1,000-Year-Old Cross That May Change the Story of Early Christianity

The mold was discovered during excavations at a Slavic fort in Berling-Spandau in 1983, and is considered one of the oldest ...

The Astounding Pop Mech Show: How ‘Rebooting’ Your Eye Could Cure Vision Loss

Imagine fixing your eyesight not with risky surgery or an endless supply of eye drops, but by briefly turning your eye off … and back on.

A Toddler Picked Up Dad’s Metal Detector and Accidentally Found a Priceless Historical Artifact

James Hyatt, age 4, was rambling around a green field with his dad on a pleasant day one May. Holding his dad’s metal detector in Hockley, a large village in the UK about 2 hours’ drive from London, ...

Your Mind and the Universe Are Made of the Same Mysterious Particle, New Research Suggests

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

You Can Save Over $1,000 on 2026’s Saatva Presidents' Day Deals With Our Exclusive PopMech Code

Good news for those looking for a long-term solution for their sleep: Luxury Saatva mattresses are now more affordable than ever, thanks to a PopMech -exclusive Presidents' Day code. Through February ...