What's Your DIY IQ? PM's Ultimate Fix-It Quiz
March 17, 2010 07:46 AM
Valedictorian. Honor roll regular. Magna cum laude. After graduation, those accolades don't mean much if you can't answer the central question of adulthood: Can you fix that thing?...
Flashforward Stars Talk Sci-Fi Show's New Season
March 16, 2010 12:16 PM
ABC's hit show FlashForward returns Thursday, March 18, with 12 new episodes. In an exclusive interview, Courtney B. Vance and Christine Woods tell what to expect from the last half of the first season-and how research is key to the...
Hollywood Fact Check: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone?
March 15, 2010 09:46 PM
That civilians cooked WMD intelligence is just one of the movie's assertions that beg to be questioned. Here, Joe Pappalardo fact checks the new movie, Green Zone....
Soccer Bots Battle It Out at FIRST Regional Championship
March 15, 2010 04:16 PM
On March 14, 2010, 64 teams of high school students went head to head at the national FIRST Robotics Competition. Here are 10 particularly interesting-but not necessarily successful-designs from the students....
Latest SpaceX Falcon 9 Engine Test a Success (With Video!)
March 15, 2010 01:31 PM
This weekend's Falcon 9 engine test could pave the way for a test flight in early April....
Rendering God of War III's Colossal Enemies
March 15, 2010 11:01 AM
God of War III's colossal enemies answer one long-standing question in video games: Is bigger always better?...
Portable Workbench Showdown: Jawhorse vs. Workmate
March 12, 2010 02:31 PM
Can the Jawhorse upstage the Black & Decker Workmate as the most capable and functional portable workbench for the solo craftsman?...
2011 Jaguar XJ Test Drive
March 12, 2010 01:46 PM
Jaguar unleashes a new XJ with the most substantial remake in the iconic British saloon's 40-year history. Will this be the car that brings back Jag's glory?...
6 Steps to Prepare Your Car For Long-Term Storage
March 10, 2010 08:01 PM
Just because your classic is spending time in the garage doesn't mean you can skimp on service. Here's how to get your car ready for storage, and how to get it back on the road when you want to use...
Lost Makes Looney-Tunes Sense With Dynamite Use
March 10, 2010 04:31 PM
Fact vs. viction: Was the dynamite face-off a boom or bust? PM consults historians, anarchists and a disgruntled former Lost advisor to get answers....
2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Test Drive
March 10, 2010 11:16 AM
Ford's biggest pickup offers gargantuan towing capability and an amazingly cushy ride. But could this big rig also be a fuel-economy champ?...
2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet Test Drive
March 9, 2010 04:16 PM
Just in time for summer, a drop-top version of the new Mercedes E-Class debuts. With a new turbulence-reducing header flap, could this be the first convertible that drives top-down all year?...
Toyota Fires Back: Electronics Don't Rewire Themselves
March 8, 2010 07:01 PM
After a college professor modified a Toyota Avalon to suddenly accelerate without pressing the gas pedal, Toyota held a briefing to explain what most media outlets don't get: Electronics don't rewire themselves....
Giving Roger Ebert a New Voice: Q&A With CereProc
March 8, 2010 03:16 PM
Popular Mechanics caught up with Chris Pidcock, co-founder and chief voice engineer of CereProc, to learn how they recreated Roger Ebert's voice....
Year-Long Review of the Honda Insight EX Navi
March 8, 2010 03:01 AM
Welcome back, Insight.The original and forward-looking Insight hybrid left Honda's product line in 2006, but has returned for 2010. We've added one of the fuel-sippers to our long-term test fleet....
How FIRST Competitors Plan to Face 4 Key Bot Challenges
March 5, 2010 06:46 PM
The six-week build portion of the 2010 FIRST Robotics competition has come to an end. PM spoke with teams from schools across the country to learn what strategies will be key at regionals, and at the FIRST championship in mid-April....
Get Your Winter Racing Fix on a Frozen Track (With Video!)
March 5, 2010 06:46 PM
When winter descends and the professional racers of the Nascar and IndyCar series put away their cars for the off-season, amateur racers of the northern regions get ready for winter's gift: ice racing....
How to Handle Sudden Unintended Acceleration: Video
March 5, 2010 06:16 PM
In this video, PM senior automotive editor Mike Allen accelerates his car to 55 and then stops it-while accelerating....
Get Your Winter Racing Fix on a Frozen Track (Video!)
March 5, 2010 08:16 AM
For a hardy band of Michiganders, winter, ice and well-used cars create an ideal, low-bucks racing fix....
Budget Wars Spell Grim Future For F-22 and F-35 Planes
March 4, 2010 05:01 PM
News of cost overruns roil the debate over the world's two most advanced warplanes, the costly F-22 Raptor and the too-big-to-fail F-35 Lightning II. Will UAVs be the final victor?...
