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FOR CENTURIES. PAPER AIRPLANES HAVE UNLOCKED THE SCIENCE OF FLIGHT--NOW THEY COULD INSPIRE DRONE DESIGNS. SHINJI SUZUKI MET Takuo Toda in 1999, atop Mt. Yonami in the southern city of [...]

In its first 100 years, POPULAR MECHANICS has printed only one centerfold. The year was 1903, and the centerfold was of a real beauty--a web printing press. PM's founder, Henry [...]

Pg 32 | A Living History of the Humble Paper Airplane -> In 1998, aeronautical engineer and paper airplane fanatic Ken Blackburn earned the Guinness World Record for "time aloft" with a throw that sent his plane soaring for a whopping 27.6 seconds. "When I throw a new paper airplane for the first time, there's a 90 percent chance it will not fly the way I want it to", Blackburn says. Leading up to his then record-breaking throw, Blackburn constructed hundreds of planes and honed his toss. [Extracted from the article]

Everyone, or at least some people, has wanted to be a DJ. Not a radio jock or a sweaty guy in a vest who spins vinyl at bar mitzvahs but [...]

Shredding paper can be a game of chicken--the feed hole tempts us to race forward with as many sheets as we can. Of course, the inevitable purge of jammed halfcut [...]

DIFFICULTY Time: 1 hour Ages 12+ MATERIALS LIST * 1-inch x 3-inch x 4-foot poplar project board * two 3-volt electric motors (Lowe's item #364310, model #884477) * push-button on-off [...]

Building an 800-pound paper airplane is tough--but getting it airborne is even tougher, as a team led by the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona found out. After several [...]

Scientists at Stanford University recently developed a method to store energy in ordinary paper by coating it with ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowiers. These nanomaterials are great [...]

Russian and Israeli scientists have invented a new potential weapon in the fight against food poisoning--a paper wrapper that can kill bacteria. They exposed laboratory populations of E. coli and [...]

Will you be paying for that with plastic or plastic? Makers of bank note stock are preparing to phase out paper and replace it with thin sheets of plastic. Treasuries [...]

8 Pro Challenge THE MISSIVE TO POP MECH READERS, VIA Instagram, was this: Make something with LEGO that will make your (or someone else's) life easier, and show us the results. AUTOMATIC TOILET PAPER DISPENSER The Builder: Steve Guinness @thebrickconsultant Guinness builds commissioned LEGO models for customers, and is the British LEGO Masters champ. [Extracted from the article]

Describes the paper recycling process. De-inking and removal of contaminants; Pulp formation; Purification; Removal of contaminants such as glues, nonpaper inserts and stapel wire; Production of paper through the paper machine.

Products that literally call out for you to buy them are heading for stores. Paper Power of Israel has developed an ultrathin power cell that has no casing and is [...]

The article offers step-by-step instructions for creating paper airplane, bootjack, and saw-blade trivet.

JAPANESE TIMEPIECE giant Seiko has teamed with Cambridge, Mass., firm E Ink to introduce the world's first watch that uses electronic-paper technology. This superthin, ultralow-power watch will make its debut [...]

A Rite in the Rain notebook is more tool than stationery. It's produced by J.L. Darling, a Tacoma, Washington, company that got its start in the 1920s making notebooks for [...]

The article offers step by step instructions for making a paper airplane launcher.

Skip a building permit and you'll run into problems when you try to sell your house, because there will be no way to prove that the work you did conforms [...]

* Maybe you're tired of staring at the tacky floral print emblazoned on your living room walls. Or maybe you can't find a decent design in any of the dozens [...]

BETWEEN TODAY'S REMOTE-WORKPLACE DEMANDS and a looming tax season, you likely have a lot of paperwork on your hands. You need a reliable printer to quickly crank out hard copies [...]

The article talks about the profile of Luna who is biased never really watched a lot of Star War and make a lot of mistakes, and also reflects her keeping of a Leatherman multitool in her back pocket.

Unless you count Nobel Prizes, no one is handing out merit badges for a life well lived. There's no handbook given to first graders that explains when you'll need to [...]

The article focuses on the flight test of paper airplane from the team led by the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.

Reports on the development of an ultrathin power cell by Paper Power in Israel.

Reports on a project under the direction of Auburn University chemical engineering professor Gopal A. Krishnagopalan that measures and adjusts the chemical composition of paper during the production cycle. Research and development of pilot plant; Goal to reduce environmental control and energy costs.

ELECTRONIC PAPER has to live up to a tot of hype. Billed as the end of the printed page as we know it, the technology uses an electric charge to [...]

Every year, the Federal Reserve destroys 7 billion damaged bills. Stacks of cash go into a giant paper shredder with carbon-steel blades that turn the bills into 0.08- by 0.75-inch [...]

AN ANCIENT VOLCANO BENEATH NEVADA and Oregon could hold the largest deposit of lithium ever found, scientists revealed last summer in a peer-reviewed paper published in Science Advances. This section [...]

IN 2012 RADIATION EXPERT Robert Emery examined a research paper in his office at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston that declared a health crisis was at [...]

The article discusses how Mike Clements, a telescope enthusiast built an amateur telescope and his inspiration behind it.It tells us how Clements developed interest in Telescope making after visiting the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and how he built his first telescope from a toilet-paper tube and his father's eyeglasses.He then built the world's largest amateur telescope which is thirty-five feet tall, weighs four thousand pounds and consists of 70-inch mirror.

The article evaluates several high technology products, including the Taycan electric automobile developed by the Porsche company, the electronic mobile writing tool known as the Free-write Traveler and the Zeiss ZX1 Camera.

Focuses on electronic newspapers. Estimated number of daily papers with electronic editions; Potential of the economics of online editions; Pros and cons of an online newspaper.

HAVE A WEIRD IDEA. I want to put a Kindle in space. Not literally (or for literature)--instead, I want to take the technology of a Kindle's E Inkscreen and put [...]

The article presents questions and answers on topics including properties of magnets, putting toilet paper on seat can save from germs, and reason for the shortage of quality toasters.

At a letterpress in Pennsylvania, a couple combines old machines and new technology to create art with texture you can feel. Then they go hiking. MITCH HANSON TURNS over the [...]

IT TOOK ROUGHLY 24hourstoprintall 1,062,000 copies of this issue of Popular Mechanics. That's 2,500feet of paper per minute spooling through a printing press at Quad/Graphics in Saratoga Springs, New York. [...]

The mysterious code stumped the FBI and NSA for 53 years. What does the key, and the resulting solution, tell us about the infamous murderer? THE ENVELOPE ARRIVED at the [...]

The article offers suggestions that help in retaining the data of the hard drive that has been destroyed in flood which includes, using paper towel to soak the water, checking flood insurance policy and keeping the drive in moist place to prevent the read/write heads from sticking.

The article presents questions and answers related to wood pressing issues which includes building of a retaining wall out of pressure-treated wood, peeling off of stains on wooden decks and use of a sharpening stone on a handle.

The article presents information on the Flip-Top Paper Towel Holder. It lets on tear off individual sheets with a single hand. Products with similar claims tend to be wall mounted, and many simply don't work. The Flip-Top holder's stainless steel base keeps it upright, and the variable-force tension arm holds the towels in place, adjusting the pressure to accommodate rolls of varying sizes.

Motorized creatures that scurry across the table. EASY REASONABLE HARD Difficulty: Time: 30 minutes Ages: 7+ BATTLE BOTS ARE SIMPLE THINGS, miniature robots like the crazy ones you can see [...]

1:35 A.M. A TUESDAY ¶ ERNIE BOOTH, THE OPERATIONS MANAGER OF THE MAIN a Tuesday printing plant of The New York Times, is walking the floor. The plant is a [...]

Peer underneath any Lincoln LS and you'll find essentially the same platform used for the Jaguar S-Type and Ford Thunderbird convertible. The LS was born because Lincoln had long felt [...]

Backflow Prevention The early weeks of fall are a good time to plant trees and shrubs. Many homeowners water a new planting with a garden hose placed at its base. [...]