Popular Mechanics

Discover the latest in technology, engineering, and tools with Popular Mechanics. Plus, get essential advice on your home and car, useful DIY ideas, in-depth explanations on how things work, and more!

Popular Mechanics

My Pop Life • // EXPERT HACKS, GEAR RECS & LIFE-TESTED WISDOM FROM OUR MEMBERS //

Staff Meeting • //IN WHICH WE CONVENE THE EDITORS TO FLEX THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND SOLVE EXISTENTIAL QUANDARIES //

Build It

Members Only • // THE LATEST NEWS AND OTHER HAPPENINGS FROM POPMECH PRO //

Can’t Stop Thinking About • SEEING A BLACK HOLE IN THE MILKY WAY

Can’t Stop Thinking About • This Easy DIY Method for Small Drywall Repairs

Whether All the Top Gun Stunts Are Realistic

If Soccer Is Getting More Predictable

The Anti-Universe Running Backward in Time

HOW MUCH DIRT IS NEEDED TO FILL THE GRAND CANYON

What the Large Hadron Collider Will Discover Next

How Protons Dance in the Collider

The 4 Cars We’re Loving for Future Drives

How People Function on Only 4 Hours of Sleep

THE FUTURE IS RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION

How to BUILD TOMORROW

THE WORLD’S OCEANS ARE DYING RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES • SeaLegacy uses advanced tech to broadcast the destruction of humanity’s most vital resource from its 62-foot sailboat—and it’s impossible to look away.

CAN A SMART WATCH PROLONG YOUR LIFE? • AFTER HIS BROTHER’S PREMATURE DEATH AT 46, OUR WRITER GETS SERIOUS ABOUT WEARABLE TECH.

THESE REVOLUTIONARY RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES Can Help Divert CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

THE GROUND-BREAKING SOFTWARE That Helps BLIND JAZZ PRODIGY MATTHEW WHITAKER PRODUCE MUSIC

Everything You Need to Have POWER ANYWHERE

GENERATOR DO’S AND DON’TS

Powerful, Accurate Leaf Blowers Save You Time and Money

THE BEST OF THE TEST

Editors’ Choice • ONE PIECE OF GEAR THAT’S WON THE HEART OF OUR TEST TEAM

The Best of All Worlds: Tri-Fuel Generators

Made Right • GEAR TO STAND THE TEST OF TIME