UAPs Are Out There. This Physicist Is Convinced They’re Not Human—And He’s Trying to Prove It.

Kevin Knuth shifted from skepticism to serious UAP research. He investigates UAPs and thinks UAPs may represent a real scientific and security concern. There have been reports of UAP activity near ...

The Schlage Sense Pro Is the Only Smart Lock I've Tested That Nails Hands-Free Entry

I’ve unlocked smart locks just about every way you can: a keypad, an app, a fingerprint sensor, facial recognition, even palm ...

Single-Hose Portable A/Cs Can Make Your Home Feel Hotter. A Dual-Hose A/C Solves for That.

A single-hose unit pulls in air from the room to cool internal components, then pushes warm air outside. This creates ...
Popular Mechanics

A Mysterious Hum Has Plagued the Earth for 50 Years. Scientists May Have Finally Found Its Source.

For more than 50 years, people around the world have reported a low-frequency hum. It was unique to coastal U.K. cities at first, but spread throughout the world. Theories suggest it could be factory ...

Archaeologists Found a 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure. No One Knows Who Built It.

At Kalambo Falls in Zambia, archaeologists have excavated two interlocking logs deliberately shaped with tools by early ...

You Could Send Messages to Your Past Self With This Mind-Melting Technology, Scientists Say

In it, he proposed a technology, called the tachyonic anti-telephone, that could send faster-than-light messages into the ...

The Navy Once Tested ‘Invisible’ Ships. Now, One Man Sits at the Center of the ‘Philadelphia Experiment’ Conspiracy.

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the strangest military conspiracy theories, and even inspired a 1984 film based on its ...

Archaeologists May Have Found a Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Burial Ritual

Mapping two large earthen barrows in a neolithic cemetery in France, they noticed what might be hidden granite chambers.

Explorers Spent Centuries Hunting the ‘Atlantis of the Sands.’ A Film Crew May Have Found It.

Known as the “Atlantis of the Sands,” explorers spent centuries hoping to discover the once-wealthy metropolis. In the 1990s, ...

The Ego Power+ Cordless Hedge Trimmer is a Powerhouse... But Wielding it is a Workout

An industry-first carbon rail keeps blades aligned for quicker work and cleaner cuts, though you may need to brace yourself ...

What Is “The Hum”? The Strange Sound Science Still Can’t Explain

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss a shared ...

A 16th-Century Map Shows an Island Worth $22 Billion. It May Have Never Existed at All.

Back in the 16 th century, a cartographer drew the island of Bermeja in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, numerous expeditions have tried and failed to prove its existence. Mexico wanted the island to ...