Unlock Every Corner of How the World Works |
Unlock Every Corner of How the World Works |
Join Pop Mech Pro All Access for unlimited deep dives, smarter explainers, DIY projects, and the kind of ideas that change how you see everything. |
|
|
| members-only newsletter with curated science and technology news, and more |
|
|
| access to six new special digital issues per year |
|
|
| print subscription, and instant access to digital versions in our app |
|
|
| reviews, recommendations, and guides for the latest and greatest gear, tools, and DIY projects |
|
|
What's Trending with
Pro Members |
What's Trending with Pro Members |
|
|
Heaven Has a Physical Location, a Physicist Claims |
The "horizon" he points to isn't a doorway to the divine, other scientists say. Yet, modern physics has been trying to answer questions once left to religion. |
| Your Mind Taps Into the 'Flow of the Universe' |
There's a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates? |
|
|
Unlock the explainers, breakthroughs, and projects you can't get anywhere else—only with Pop Mech Pro All Access. |
|
|
| | Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection
Popular Mechanics is a publication of Hearst Magazines.
©2026 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779
|  | | https://link.popularmechanics.com/oc/5ebbecacd29c642c84681eb1qhle5.4yx0/1e7ca835 |
|
|
|
 The Story We Can't Stop Thinking About |
|
|
A new era for nuclear. The biggest downside to nuclear power has always been about what's left behind. But now, scientists at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab say they may have a way to slash the radioactivity of spent fuel by 99.7 percent. Even better: they can generate usable heat in the process. To do that, they use a particle-accelerator technique called spallation. They fire high-energy protons to knock pesky isotopes into more manageable forms, potentially cutting storage timelines from 100,000 years to only a few centuries.
—Andrew Daniels, Director of News |
|
|
| Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life. |
| |
| The Blood Falls is the result of a complicated interaction in which overlying ice, underlying rock, and an ancient lake bed form a pretty unsettling natural display. |
|
|
| Improper startup and sloppy technique can destroy a pressure washer's pump, damage surfaces, and cost you more than the actual machine itself. |
|
|
| While the human remains in the coffin were not those of an elite member of society (as they had once been thought to be), radiocarbon dating revealed that they were a hundred years older than assumed. |
|
|
| Called "Lamarckian Inheritance," the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations. |
|
|
| After 54 years, a credible revelation may unmask the mystery man behind history's greatest unsolved skyjacking. |
|
|
|
|
