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BeerSci: The Art And Science Of Beer Brewing, On Video
Charlie Bamforth, professor of brewing science at UC Davis, walks you through the process. If you've never brewed a beer before, the entire process can come across and alien and incomprehensible,...
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Mayor Bloomberg Predicts Drone Surveillance In New York's Future
Map of drone use authorizations in the U.S. The red markers represent active authorizations; the blue markers, expired authorizations; the yellow markers, rejected authorizations. Jennifer on Google...
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Here's How Long It'll Be Until Google Kills That Service You Like
Google TVA mathematical look at the approximate expiration date for Google stuff. With Google's recent announcement that it would be discontinuing the cultishly beloved Google Reader, some people are...
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Google Flu Trends Misrepresented the Severity of This Year's Flu Season...
Google's Flu Trends, mappedKatie PeekA cautionary tale about the limitations of big data Last year, we wrote about Flu Trends, Google's search engine-based influenza barometer. The takeaway: after...
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Popular Science Bracket: Land Robots Vs. Flying Drones, Round 4
Land robots vs. flying drones, round 4Katie PeekRound four polls close Wednesday, March 27, at 9 a.m. Cast your votes in the penultimate matchup! Welcome to round four of the world's nerdiest bracket!...
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Investigators Discover 50th Fake Study By Disgraced Dutch Psychologist
Pseudoscience strikes againWikimedia CommonsThe journal Social Psychology retracts yet another paper by Diederik Stapel, citing falsified and manipulated data. The retraction count for former...
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Climate-Fixing Scheme To Seed The Seas With Iron May Not Work
Eyjafjallajökull erupting in April 2010Ars Electronica on Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull gave scientists a chance to test a high-stakes geoengineering idea. At least one...
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Curiosity Is Back To Work On Mars, But Only For A Few Days
Curiosity Explores Mars On August 6, the largest rover yet-the size of a car rather than a golf cart-will land on the Red Planet. Curiosity is carrying new equipment that will drill into rocks, analyze...
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Is North Korea Forcing Diplomats To Sell Drugs Abroad?
How does an economically isolated pariah state make money? The black market, apparently. North Korea is a bizarre country. Ruled by a 26-year-old dictator, technically still at war with its southern...
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Brain Scan Predicts Whether Convicts Will Re-Offend: Welcome To The Sci-Fi...
Go To JailDreamstimeActivity in one very particular part of the brain shows a high correlation with recidivism. Researchers at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico--a non-profit, partially...
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This Shark Has Two Heads
Two-Headed SharkCourtesy of Patrick Rice, Shark Defense/Florida Keys Community CollegeLook at this shark, it has more heads than sharks normally have (they usually have one head). This is a shark...
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James Cameron Donates His Custom-Built Submarine To Science
James Cameron's Deepsea Challenger Deepsea Challenger submersible system, sketched by explorer and movie director James Cameron in November 2003. Courtesy James CameronWoods Hole Oceanographic...
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White Girls Less Likely To Get HPV Vaccine Than Hispanic Girls
Getting VaccinatedJames Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWhite parents are more likely to think their daughters don't need the vaccine. The HPV vaccine may be the only vaccine in the...
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Will Ouya, The Hackable Game Console, Let You Pirate Games?
OuyaIt was recently announced that developers would be making emulators, which let you run retro games, for Ouya. But where are those games coming from? Ouya might be one of the biggest gadget-funding...
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Could Privately Funded Orbiters Fill The Looming Weather Satellite Gap?
Hurricane SandyClick here to see this scary storm even larger!NASA GOES ProjectWithout global coverage, weather (and climate) prediction models will get things wrong. Pictures like the one above,...
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Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, And Even The New T-Mobile Are Trying To Screw You
iPhone 5, Good PhoneAppleT-Mobile announced its new "Uncarrier" strategy--no more two-year contracts, pay for the phone up front. It's a step in the right direction, but not enough. Let's ban all...
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In The Same Cataclysm That Gave The Moon Its Craters, Lots Of Asteroids...
Near Side Of the MoonNASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter During the Late Heavy Bombardment, not even space rocks were safe. This is good news for historians of the solar system. About 4 billion years...
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Who Are The Casualties Of America's Drone Strikes? [Infographic]
Out Of Sight, Out Of MindPitch Interactive More than 3,000 people in Pakistan have been killed by drone strikes. Were they enemies? That's where it gets tricky. The United States has killed more than...
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This Is Now The World's Lightest Material
Carbon AerogelZhejiang University NewsThis one's made of carbon, and it's super absorbent, too! Check out this contender for the title of "world's lightest solid." To demonstrate just how light it is,...
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Watch A Ferrofluid Sculpture Move To The Rhythm
Ferrociousvia KickstarterAnd get your own, via Kickstarter. Though they're primarily used in speakers and hard drives, ferrofluids -- liquids that respond to a magnetic field like a solid -- also make...
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