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So, tell us about this new car, the Huracán.This is a very important car for us, because it is the replacement for the Gallardo, which was the best-selling Lamborghini in history: We sold more than 14,000 of them. And the signs are very good for us because we have already [pre]-sold more than 1000 in the first few months. The design is completely new. It is in line with our goal of being revolutionary, but at the same time being immediately recognizable as a Lamborghini....

Media Platforms Design TeamSheet of graphene. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.With the development of a new, thinner membrane, defense contractor Lockheed Martin could revolutionize the process of desalination, providing fresh water across the globe at higher efficiency and lower costs.Traditionally, the best way of taking salt out of water has been through vacuum distillation. The salt water is enclosed at a low pressure to reduce its boiling point, making it easier to vaporize to separate the salt from the water....

For more on the science of sitting, standing desks, and a story on how to speed up your old iPhone, download The Most Useful Podcast Ever, on iTunes,Soundcloud, and here.“Sitting is the new smoking” might be the most tired health cliché of the decade. Yeah, we get it. Spending the whole day in a chair isn’t healthy. Thing is: It’s not wrong. Sitting at work contributes to such diseases as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, even cancer....

Media Platforms Design TeamGregory Mark co-owns Aeromotions, which builds computer-controlled racecar wings. To make those wings both strong and lightweight, they use carbon fiber. No surprise there—it’s the for many advanced motorsports parts. The problem is that making custom racecar parts out of carbon fiber is daunting. The only real method available is the expensive and difficult process of laying up carbon fiber pieces by hand.material of choiceTo improve the process, Mark looked to 3D printing....

Welcome to PM/AM, Popular Mechanics’ morning briefing on the top science and tech stories for today.Media Platforms Design TeamToyota FCV concept at the North American International Auto Show. Credit: Steve Russell/Getty ImagesYesterday, the world’s biggest automaker finally revealed the Toyota FCV production model, a fuel-cell vehicle that should go on the U.S. market by the summer of 2015. Toyota now joins Hyundai and Daimler, which already have fuel-cell vehicles on the market....

Film is Dead: Long Live the Movies Lights! Camera! Data! The digital revolution has arrived in Hollywood. We interview one of the moviemaking magicians at Industrial Light and Magic, Effects Supervisor Colum Slevin, and find out how digital production is fundamentally changing the way films are made. Plus, a look back at a couple of the most interesting Popular Mechanics Show moments of 2006. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ThePopularMechanicsShow?i=mnpwq00u http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ThePopularMechanicsShow?i=wOnAdKkR http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ThePopularMechanicsShow?i=ErrRmttl http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ThePopularMechanicsShow?i=3LHn9j8v http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ThePopularMechanicsShow?i=Cf65RJNmDownload PodcastSubscribe: Media Platforms Design Team Media Platforms Design Team...

A good pair of binoculars can give you a great view of the moon and its craters, but for those cloudy nights, there’s a way to watch the moon move that’s nearly as crisp and clear. NASA Goddard Space Center prepared this video from Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter data to give a resolution of 4K, known as “ultra-high def.” It may, in fact, have better resolution than your TV can handle.Our lone satellite has rarely looked so gorgeous as it does here, moving through its phases over the time lapse of a month....

They call it “car-fu.” To brothers Andy and Larry Wachowski, high-speed chases are more about green screens than mean machines, more bumper car than NASCAR–if bumper cars travelled at 400 mph and came loaded with weapons, that is. In their long-awaited, live-action adaptation of Speed Racer–opening today on the big screen and the even bigger screens of IMAX–drivers ram each other’s rides repeatedly, push competitors over cliffs and load up everything from spearhooks to beehives across the most breathtaking digital race tracks this side of the DiRT gaming franchise....

Media Platforms Design TeamO say, yes, NASA can see. Today the space agency released new data from its lunar orbiter showing that 40 years after the Apollo missions, the American flags the astronauts planted on the moon are still there. As Phil Plait explains at Bad Astronomy, it had been a bit of a mystery whether the six star-spangled banners left behind on the lunar surface would survive the harsh temperatures and radiation they would endure over four decades....

Media Platforms Design TeamLast week the Pentagon revealed the existence of a new weapon in the war against roadside bombs: a beam of radio-frequency energy that can detonate hidden Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at a distance. And its creators say the potential does not stop there—the beam could be also used to set off other types of warheads before they reached their target. In theory it might be used to set off ammunition before the enemy even has a chance to fire....

Media Platforms Design TeamFor some people, mowing the lawn is a meditative experience—a chance to tune out while getting a little exercise walking behind the lawnmower, inhaling the scent of freshly cut grass. It’s good old-fashioned domestic man’s work, like your father did before you, his father before him, and so on. Well, not me. I hate mowing the lawn. It’s a numbingly repetitive, sweaty, noisy waste of time. My father hated it too....

Media Platforms Design TeamAutonomous driving is no longer a question of if; self-driving cars are coming. But while the technology matures, we’re left with a series of questions: When is it coming? How much will it do? Are we actually ready for it? General Motors, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz have all promised that some level of self-driving car will be on sale before 2020. And now Toyota is jumping into the ring, with a demonstration of key autonomous systems and a a promise that it will be available by mid-decade....

Media Platforms Design TeamIt’s not everyday that a 3-sec. test some 29 million miles from Earth is cause for celebration. But today is one of them. During the night of February 16, the European Space Agency’s Venus Express fired its main engine for 3 sec. and revealed that all is well on the way to “the Morning Star.” After the test, the spacecraft performed as expected, recovering control of itself and pointing its antenna back to Earth....

Media Platforms Design TeamView full post on YoutubeThat’s a biomimicking big cat bounding across the lawn at MIT. Developed by mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim and his team, the robo-cheetah can currently run 10 miles per hour and jump over objects in its way. The scientists building it say this version of the robot could soon run as fast as 30 mph—not fast enough to match a real cheetah sprinting across the African grassland, but fast enough to haunt your dreams....

The Navy’s new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a fully electric, magnetically-powered way of launching fighter jets and drones off an aircraft carrier and into the sky. It works based on the same basic principles of a railgun, while being distinct from the Navy’s literal railgun. A unit on the USS Gerald Ford started testing with a weighted sled earlier this month, but a recent video shows a new, impressive feat: Making a weighted sled that weighs as much as a car literally skip like a stone....

Media Platforms Design TeamWhat’s so special about your stove? Give me your elevator pitch.We are totally focused on affordability and performance. We hope to be the most affordable entrant in the Wood Stove Design Challenge, and also among the most efficient. In spite of our scrooge-like attention to the cost of materials, we also think our entry will be quite attractive. It has design aspects that can be customized by a consumer, so your stove really will be your stove....

Media Platforms Design TeamIt’s named after a deadly bull, looks like something dreamed up by a skunkworks team at Area 51 and boasts the formidable pricetag of $1.4 million. The Reventón is the rarest, most extreme modern Lamborghini to date.The concept of the Reventón began as a “What if?” conversation within Lamborghini. Amazingly, less than a year later, it premiered at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. The fact that such automotive magic can be conjured on such short notice speaks to the prowess of Lamborghini’s R&D department....

Media Platforms Design TeamDanville, Va.—Last year, the GT500 was significantly updated with new sheet-metal, a redone interior and a revised suspension system that finally made the priciest Mustang a world-class handler. Apparently the SVT crew wasn’t finished, because this year, the engineers tackled the GT500’s most glaring fault­—its prodigious 3935-pound curb weight. Plus they added a performance package with a new set of Goodyear rubber that provides enough grip to seemingly peel pavement....

Media Platforms Design TeamPolaris Industries may have built their name on snowmobiles and ATVs, but the Spirit Lake, Iowa-based manufacturer is taking a direct hit at 110 year-old Harley-Davidson by revitalizing the Indian Motorcycle nameplate. Just unveiled at the granddaddy of American motorcycle gatherings, the Sturgis rally, was a trio of models which appear to attempt a span across that nebulous genre of the traditional U.S.-built cruiser. The Vintage (top left, $20,999) offers a quick-release windshield and soft leather saddlebags, along with the usual traditional styling cues and chrome doodads....

Media Platforms Design TeamMedia Platforms Design TeamTake us with you, Elon.As if he weren’t busy enough building solar panel mega-factories and the world’s sexiest electric cars, Elon Musk said recently that, oh-by-the-way, he’s going to help make humans a multi-planetary species, too. The SpaceX founder wants to take people to Mars within the next dozen years.We hereby volunteer to go along and set up the first Mars-based media company. But let’s be honest: Buzzfeed will probably beat us to it, and then beam back all these stories across interstellar space....