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Acid or base? When you're a coke can, it doesn't matter�you sizzle either way.

In an inspired take on the ongoing spate of airport screening controversies, Popular Mechanics� Erin McCarthy interviews cattle behavior expert Temple Grandin.

I�m sure that any personal-care product featuring �102� deeply touch, shaving area increased� isn�t the least bit sketchy.

Your friends with their puny carbonite ice-cube molds will envy you.

Thrash metal and testosterone-raked commands give way to twee chimes and happy laughs in the latest trailer for Atari's whimsical casual game, The Undergarden.

"We speak on the phone, but where is your body?" Suzanne Fellini sings in "Love On the Phone." You can't push on a string; you can't embrace over a wire. But can the wire embrace us?

A simple, elegant reboot makes it easy to fill a room with daylight.

Turning a wall of ice into a touch screen may not have much practical use, but it's magical nonetheless.

Pelted with snow, NASA's probe captured images of the very active comet Hartley 2 on its November 4 flyby.

The search for extraterrestrial life is serious science: its methods are precisely documented, its results painstakingly peer-reviewed. But at the same time it�s a field with curious standards when it comes to �advances.�