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Jeff Bezos Explains How Blue Origin Will Prevent Its Rocket Engine From Melting

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BE-4 test fire

Look BE-4 you leap

For all that rocket science gets a reputation for being complicated, it all boils down to some simple concepts.

See Honda’s Driverless Toy Cars Cross The World

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Concept For Tundra Vehicle

Cars that let you experience the drive, instead of enduring it

Concept for 7 autonomous vehicles.

Big Bang Machine Shut Down By Small Mammal

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Large Hadron Collider Atlas experiment detector

Large Hadron Collider temporarily offline from weasel or marten bite

Here's hoping that it wasn't actually a time traveler sent back from an apocalyptic future intending to sabotage the LHC to prevent said apocalypse.

NASA Finally Has Touchscreen Simulators For Spacecraft

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Astronaut Eric Boe

Reach out, touch space

Touchscreens make it to NASA…

First U.S. Zika-Related Death Reported In Puerto Rico

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zika

Still no vaccine to combat the outbreak

The first case of death related to the Zika virus has been reported in Puerto Rico.

Navy Puts First Drone Command On An Aircraft Carrier

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USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea

Putting the control tower before the workhorse

Aircraft carrier ready for drones.

Amazon's Kindle Oasis Puts Function Over Form

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Amazon Kindle Oasis

Batteries included

Amazon has unveiled its latest e-reading device. PopSci reviews the new Kindle Oasis.

A Brain Atlas, Armor For Modern Day Jousting, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

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Plus, the $750,000 “high-tech vehicle of the future”

Our favorite images from this week in science and tech news.

Siemens Created Spider Bots That 3D Print

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SiSpis Or Siemens Spiders

Walking printers who just so happen to be robot spiders

Look at these robot spiders.

See SpaceX's Rocket Landing On A Drone Ship in 360-Degree Video

I Bought an Awesome (if Obscure) Piece of Space History!

Fall(out) Guy Part 12

10 Embarrassing Animal Photos Captured By Camera Traps

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You're on candid camera!

Does a bear poop in the woods? Yes. Sometimes, it even does it right in front of a camera.

'Silicon Valley’ Is Secretly Teaching You About The Real Tech Industry

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Season three of the HBO sitcom borrowed from Facebook and Google

Pied Piper moves beyond peer-to-peer distribution in season three, and introduces neural networks into the compression platform.

Flyboard Blows Away Previous Hoverboard Flight Record

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Flyboard In Flight

Hoverboard breaks hoverboard record for hoverboards

Hoverboard breaks hoverboard record for hoverboards.

Boiling Water Might Have Carved Mars's Mysterious Dark Streaks

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recurring slope lineae

A watched pot never boils. But Mars might.

With an average temperature of minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit, Mars would seem to be too cold to have liquid water on its surface.

Beautiful Visualization Captures The Motions Of A Kung Fu Fighter

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Motion-capture of a kung fu fighter

Putting the "art" in martial arts

Different styles of martial arts have different "shapes".

'Space Jam 2' Believes It Can Fly

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Space Jam website

This time starring LeBron James (with hopefully more Quad City DJ's)

Fresh off 'Trainwreck,' LeBron will again grace the silver screen…

Tesla Car's Air Filter Tested Against Simulated Bioweapons

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Tesla Model X In Biohazard Bubble

Also works against pollution

Tesla air filter good.

All The Habitable Planets (Ok, Just Three) Are Hanging Out Around This Ultracool Star

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Ultracool Star

Sooooo popular

Sometimes being cool is totally hot.
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