Sad to see it go. After over 150 years Popular Science will no longer create the magezine you know and love. For many the publication was their first dip into the magic of science and the possibities of the future. My septuagenarian father told me reading the magazine in high school “seemed like science fiction.”
The magazine went on life support in 2020 when it ended the print version and switched to an online quarterly. Some good news though, the site PopSci will still operate and continue publishing articles and more.
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Over the decades, Popular Science explored photography, hovercrafts, gyrocopters, spaceflight and the fight for more legroom on commercial airplanes, all with an eye to the general interest reader. Even in recent years, it won National Magazine Awards for “The Tiny Issue,” about all things small, in 2019, and “The Heat Issue,” about climate change, in 2022.
The magazine was also known for making fantastical predictions about the future and for offering quirky do-it-yourself projects like a motorized “yard tractor” that could be built from a kit and a homemade “plane detector” that could spot enemy aircraft, which was introduced after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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