How Your World Works

We investigate the spector of young girl at the Brooklyn Public library, talk to an expert in the field of ghost hunting... Read more

On today’s show, we try to find out what actually happens inside a craft brewery. It’s not just brewing beer, and even w... Read more

The preparators of the American Museum of Natural History's Exhibitions Department are artists and craftsmen by trade wh... Read more

In the tense and thrilling new documentary Meru (in theaters now) mountaineers Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Oztur... Read more

For today's episode, Popular Mechanics' political correspondent Mark Warren joins to interview Dana DeBeauvoir, County C... Read more

On today's episode, fantasy football addict (and Popular Mechanics Executive Editor) Peter Martin joins the show as a gu... Read more

On today's show, IDEO's Dav Rauch and Peter Hyer talk about their work designing the interfaces in everything from ATMs ... Read more

On today’s episode, Chelsea Miller and Michael Zieba – both master knife makers, albeit with very different origin stori... Read more

Among the many ideas that have been floated for slowing down climate change, carbon capture and sequestration is one of ... Read more

With Halloween fast approaching, we talk to Leonard Pickel of Hauntrepreneurs - a company that designs haunted attractio... Read more

On January 28, 1986, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its mission, America changed in a profou... Read more

Tonight, Friday, October 7th, is the LA Lakers' first home game of the NBA preseason. After their game is over, the crew... Read more

On today’s show, we go from exciting to concerning: First, we discuss whether the future of cars is a Lincoln Navigator ... Read more

On today's show, we talk to Pecos Davis and Chance Parsons, firefighters with the Malaga Volunteer Fire Department in Ed... Read more

If you read the October 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics, you may have noticed a section of the Breakthrough Awards devot... Read more

There are 121, 362 people currently on the organ transplant list and not all of them will get the organs they need in ti... Read more

In this round table episode we talk to contributing writer Kira Peikoff about her story on a new form of cancer treatmen... Read more

In honor of the 100th Anniversary edition of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, competitive eating lifer Crazy ... Read more

With the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary in the books, election season is in full swing. In this week’s episod... Read more

If you’ve ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show, or perhaps Marvel Universe Live, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the work... Read more