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Play A Chord And This Database Will Guess Which Comes Next
C Major ChordWikimedia CommonsHook Theory mined data to see how chords are used, then mapped them. Pop music might come off as formulaic sometimes, and, to some extent, that's probably true. Hook...
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People Think Candy Bars With Green Nutrition Labels Are Healthier
Green CaloriesDan NosowitzI see what you're trying to do there, Snickers bar. No matter how smart we think we are, humanity continues to be fooled by simple marketing tricks. Various experiments have...
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Let This Man Explain Why Your March Madness Bracket Sucks
Good luck getting every team right! (No, seriously. You need the luck.) Like many Americans, you probably filled out a March Madness bracket recently. And like many Americans, your bracket will almost...
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9-Year-Old Girl Gets Dinosaur Named After Her, Makes All Other...
Daisy Morris, Dinosaur Huntervia BBC4-year-old Daisy Morris found some bones while strolling on the beach--a few years later, she now has a pterosaur named after her. A few years ago, while strolling...
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This Week In The Future: Which Texted First, The Dog Or The Egg?
This Week In The Future, March 18-22, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, when communication is possible between a dog and an egg, tech etiquette will still be important. Want to win this communicative...
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How Robots Are Revolutionizing Our World [Sponsored Post]
TRP Robotics AnalystWe're all familiar with images of lurching robots performing rote tasks on the factory production lines. But the capabilities of robots have evolved well beyond the banality of...
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The Chemistry of Kibble
Decisions, DecisionsSam KaplanThe billion-dollar, cutting-edge science of convincing dogs and cats to eat what's in front of them. Despite the cryptic name and anonymous office-park architecture, the...
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Researcher Says Radar Tech Could Detect Guns At School
Find the Gun in this Radar GraphUniversity of MichiganResearchers at the University of Michigan want to use wave radar to find guns on students A radar-based concept originally developed to detect...
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Popular Science Bracket: Land Robots Vs. Flying Drones, Round 3
Land robots vs. flying drones, round 3Katie PeekWelcome to round three of the world's nerdiest bracket! To recap: we've compiled a list of some of the strongest, fastest, and strangest landbots and sky...
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North American Hotel Workers Are More Likely To Sabotage Rude Customers
Wait Staff In GermanyWikimedia CommonsResearchers examine cross-cultural differences between how hotel staffs react to abuse. Have you ever been rude to someone in the hospitality industry? Well, first...
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Crash Test
Morpheus Down The 12-by-9-foot space lander carries 1,200 pounds of propellant for a 50-second test. Courtesy NASAWhen NASA technicians saw the navigation system on the Morpheus lander prototype shut...
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The Most Incredible Pictures Of Every Planet In Our Solar System
Our Blue MarbleCan't get enough of this marble.NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman KuringEach and every planet--and one dwarf planet--in our solar system, represented with the single best image ever...
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This Periodic Table Of Booze Will Get You Atomically Wasted [Infographic]
Boozey goodness broken down by type, flavor, and, of course, alcohol by volume. There are so many decisions to make when you're drinking. Do you want something light and fruity, or a full-tilt,...
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Fantastic Programmable Goo Solves Difficult Math Problems
Blob Math A hypothetical chemical blob solves a traveling salesman problem with 20 points. From "Computation of the Travelling Salesman Problem by a Shrinking Blob" by Jeff Jones and Andrew AdamatzkyA...
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Journal Editors Have A Sense Of Humor!
Side By Side: Blind Boy Fuller and Biophysical JournalOr at least a sense of history. The covers of scientific journals are usually staid, snooze-worthy affairs. But every now and again, one displays a...
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Having Too Many Choices Leads To Bad, Risky Decisions
Las VegasWikimedia CommonsGiving subjects lots of ways to gamble turns them into risk-takers. You'd think having options is almost always a good thing. After all, more choices means more information:...
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New Bioweapons Risk Is Nothing Bureaucracy Can't Solve
Anthrax CultureU.S. Army via wikimedia commonsA report on the state of biological defense research finds lots of problems--but really manageable ones. A week after September 11, 2001, letters...
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Crowded Hong Kong Is Planning To Build Datacenters Deep Inside Caves
Data CavesArup via The RegisterCool land could help meet bandwidth needs, just look below you Companies have made data centers--those big warehouses full of servers--into creative, even beautiful,...
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Can Your Hybrid Cut Your Lawn? Here's One That Can
The Raven MPV-710 is a Chevy Volt for your backyard. A Toyota Prius is many things, but a convenient lawn mower isn't one of them. Useless, right?Luckily, it is now possible to buy a hybrid lawn mower,...
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16,000 Dead Pigs In The Huangpu: Can You Still Drink Shanghai's Water?
View of the Huangpu River flowing through Shanghai Photo taken in 2009 Jakub Hałun in Wikimedia CommonsSince the beginning of the month, officials have fished out 16,000 pig carcasses found in the...
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