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But beyond entertainment and stress-relieving beer, homebrewing brings other practical advantages during a natural disaster. As a homebrewer, we have multiple five-gallon buckets kicking around. We’ve just filled our two bottling buckets (one regular, one sour) with water in case of an “interruption of service.” We also have at least 4 empty growlers and 20 clean bombers just waiting for the next round of bottling, some of which will also be filled with water....

Best overall: KEF LS50 MetaBest for home theater: Klipsch The FivesBest for computers: Audioengine A2+ WirelessBest smart speaker: Sonos FiveBest studio monitors: PreSonus Eris E4.5Best budget: Edifier R1280TBest with a radio: Tivoli Audio Model One Digital (Gen. 2) How we picked the best speakers for music on any budget We regularly look through hundreds of choices to find the best speakers for music, but we don’t want you to feel overwhelmed by all the specs and requirements when online comparison shopping....

Best for fitness buffs: Fitbit Inspire 2Best for roving offline: Garmin Vivoactive 3Best for the fashion conscious: Willful Smartwatch Best for most situations: Amazfit Bip U ProBest for kids: Garmin Vivofit Jr. 2 What to consider when shopping for the best budget smartwatch The key to picking a smartwatch is focusing on how, where, when, and why you plan to use it. Features, sizes, styles, and uses vary greatly from brand to brand and even from device to device....

The best part about owning a projector is watching your shows with all the immersive fun of sitting in a movie theater. That 50-inch flatscreen is great, but nothing compares to sitting in the cinema and watching that giant Star Destroyer flying overhead in the opening shot of Star Wars. Home projectors bring that experience to your living room, den, or, if you’re lucky, a dedicated movie room. Home projectors also provide the flexibility you don’t often find with TVs, especially large ones....

How to find the best Memorial Day sales in 2021 Memorial Day deals for the grill master and appliance fiend With summer unofficially upon us, it’s time to upgrade your outdoor gear. Quality doesn’t come cheap, however, so if you want the best patio heater, the best gas grill, or even the best outdoor TV, you have to know where to look for the best Memorial Day sales. Best Memorial Day deals online from Target: Target Memorial Day Sale If you’re in the market for some new dining or living room chairs, check out the Ventura Upholstered Accent Chair, now at $176 (was $220), or this Layton Faux Leather Accent Chair, now at $200 (was $250)....

Best overall pour-over coffee maker: Bodum 11571-109 Pour-Over Coffee MakerBest auto-drip pour-over coffee maker: OXO Brew Pour-Over Coffee MakerBest splurge pour-over coffee maker: Fellow Stagg [XF] Pour-Over Coffee Maker SetBest budget pour-over coffee maker: Melitta Filter Coffee Maker Best pour-over coffee maker for designers: Chemex Pour-Over Glass Coffeemaker What to consider when shopping for the best pour over coffee maker Here’s the great news: No matter what pour over coffee maker you choose, at the end of it, you get a cup of coffee....

Best overall: Uniden R7Best connected: Valentine 1 Gen2Best stealth: Escort Redline 360cBest mid-range: Uniden R3Best budget: Cobra RAD 480i How we chose the best radar detectors I eliminated a number of the cheaper units right off due to poor testing results, and cut out a number of brands that were outlandishly priced. I then assembled a wide range that covered the gamut of prices out there that represented good quality for their feature sets....

Best photoelectric smoke detector: First Alert SA511CN2-3STBest ionization smoke detector: First Alert 9120B Smoke DetectorBest smoke and carbon monoxide detector: Kidde Smoke & Carbon MonoxideBest battery-powered: First Alert PR710 Slim Smoke AlarmBest smart: Google Nest ProtectBest budget: Kidde Smoke Detector (i12060) What is a smoke detector? A smoke detector, or “smoke alarm,” senses the presence of smoke and blasts a loud alarm in response. While they vary in size and shape, household models typically feature plastic enclosures and are mounted high on a wall or ceiling....

Bonsai loosely translates to “tray grown,” a reference to the Japanese practice of cultivating plants in pots that dates to the sixth century or earlier. The method works with a wide assortment of flora, from those perfectly content living inside, like petite tea trees (Carmona microphylla), to outdoor-loving varieties, like eastern red cedars (Junipurus virginia). The tree pictured here is a Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa), a common beginner’s bonsai thanks to its hearty nature and an indoor-friendly cousin of the Milanese masterpiece....

The good news: Dezeen reports that the first test track for a Hyperloop start-up will start construction in California in a matter of weeks. The five-mile test track will be the first of its kind, a place where inventors can test designs for pods that (in theory) can transport passengers at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour. The bad news: It’s still going to cost a lot of money....

This is where mounts and gimbals come into play. They are stabilizers specifically designed to offer shooting assistance, helping you capture striking imagery and cinematic footage without carrying a tripod or a dolly. To help you with your gimbal shopping, here are ten top-rated options on sale: Hohem iSteady X 3-Axis Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer Magnetic Smartphone Laptop Side Mount If you could use an extra display, but find an additional monitor bothersome, this side mount lets you mount your phone and clip it on your laptop, extending your screen in a jiffy....

Increased pollution standards are something China could certainly benefit from. The Sydney Morning Herald reports concentrations of the smallest and most hazardous airborne particulates have been through the roof in recent days for the second time this month. The EPA’s Air Quality Index cannot even register levels above 500, which are something like 20 times what the World Health Organization deems safe. At the American Embassy in Beijing, the index has been hanging around in the 300-500 “hazardous” range since Friday....

All of that sounds pretty standard for lunar missions, except for one crucial detail that makes all the difference: this will be the first time humans have made a soft landing of a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a region which we have never explored before. “As a part of a comprehensive robotic exploration campaign, you want to go to places you haven’t been before,” says John Logsdon, a space policy expert at George Washington University....

Arnold, who our own Ted Allen called the food world’s answer to Q from James Bond, finds or builds the machines, and Noren (a former executive chef at Aquavit and current Vice President of Culinary Arts at The French Culinary Institute) brings in the cooking chops needed to design the dishes. Together in this new Popular Science video series, Arnold and Noren team up to highlight different pieces of equipment that have made their way out of laboratory and into the kitchen....

Recent summers in the Pacific Northwest have been beset by record heat, and higher water temperatures are killing the adult salmon before they can reproduce. Pacific Salmon are anadromous, meaning they spend their juvenile years in freshwater streams and rivers, before moving on to estuaries, and then, in their adult years, the open ocean. Adults return to the streams where they were born at the end of their lives to spawn....

And it would take more than just a good net-gun to gain Spiderman-like abilities. To truly become a wall-crawling web-slinger, we’ll need a complete change in the laws of physics. Watch below:

Jetpacks, flying cars, hoverboards, bullet trains—inventors have dreamt up all kinds of creative ways, from science fiction to science fact, to get from point A to point B. But when it comes to transportation nirvana, nothing beats teleportation—vehicle-free, instantaneous travel. If beam-me-up-Scotty technology has gotten less attention than other transportation tropes—Popular Science ran short explainers in November 1993 and September 2004—it’s not because the idea isn’t appealing. Regrettably, over the decades there just hasn’t been much progress in teleportation science to report....

No fires broke out—this time. But the late March alert was a reminder that wildfire there were many more red flag warnings to come this spring and summer. While fire experts say it’s too early to know how severe the 2020 season will be, in areas around the West, the land is primed to burn. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s most recent three-month drought outlook has drought conditions across large swathes of California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado persisting to the end of June....

The all-in-one security system packs eight different environmental sensors into a single machine and arms it with artificial intelligence. It plugs directly into an outlet, connects to a network by Wi-Fi or ethernet, and begins logging sensor data within seconds of being taken out of the box. Once users start interacting with Canary, an algorithm learns their daily schedules, minimizing false alarms. A smartphone app enables users to review past events that were deemed suspect as well as a live video feed....

When they somehow unleash their power and convince you to buy a new toy, present them with a challenge instead: encourage them to make their own toys. The Toybox 3D Printer Deluxe Bundle packs a mini 3D printer and materials your young ones need to build virtually any toy their imagination can conjure. From today until July 5th, you can get an extra 20 percent discount on it with the code JULY20....