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The First Tax-Prep Computer Programs Blew 1983's Mind
"Computer programs do your income taxes the easy way," 1983Popular Science archivesGee whiz, an electronic accountant! When Popular Science tested the first computer programs to prepare tax returns in...
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Happy Birthday To Brilliant Mathematician Leonhard Euler
Leonhard EulerWikimedia CommonsStill impressive at 306. Today, while poking around Google, you might've noticed the lovely doodle honoring Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. He deserves that doodle!...
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Explosions At Boston Marathon Heighten Security In New York And London
Second explosion at the Boston MarathonFrom a photo by Dan LamparielloHow do you secure an event like a big-city marathon? Explosions at the finish line at the Boston Marathon this afternoon got us...
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What Are Astronauts Taking Photos Of?
Almost North AmericaNathan BergeyWhen astronauts are given amazing cameras on board the ISS, they point them towards home. Astronauts take a lot of photos of Earth, for personal use and for specific...
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How To Find Someone During A Disaster
Google Person FinderGoogleWhat to do, and what not to do, when trying to contact someone during an event like today's Boston Marathon bombing. Multiple explosions were triggered at the finish line of...
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How Marathons Have Been Attacked [Infographic]
Attacks On MarathonsGlobal Terrorism DatabaseThe Global Terrorism Database shows where other attacks and attempted attacks on marathons have happened. An attack on the Boston Marathon has left at least...
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The First App-Controlled Bionic Hand
i-Limb Ultra Revolution with Biosim appTouch BionicsWearers can push one button for complex movements like right-clicking a mouse and picking up a pen. A new bionic hand is the first to come with app...
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Mice Skin Cells Transformed Into Brain Cells
Nerve Fibers And Their Protectors Oligodendrocytes (in green) trying to cover nerve fibers (in red) Varsha Shukla, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentTwo new...
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Synthetic Marijuana: What Is It, And Is It Riskier Than Regular Pot?
Synthetic marijuana DEASynthetic marijuana has been shown to get people good and high. But this is not your parents' weed. Synthetic marijuana carries the sort of junior-circuit connotation befitting a...
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Now Live: The May 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Synergy AircraftNick KaloterakisIn 2007, my first year of working at Popular Science, we launched the Invention Awards, a celebration of dogged innovators everywhere, and gave one of the first to...
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You Can Hear When Trees Are Thirsty
DroughtBidgee/WikipediaScientists identify a specific acoustic signature that drought-stressed trees make. Imagine you're just polishing off a glass of soda. Whatever liquid left in the straw makes...
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Gray Matter: Funnels Of Flame
How nature scorches the skies with fire tornadoes. Every year I burn down my backyard. Not because I have an unhealthy fascination with fire (which I do), but because my backyard is native prairie. It...
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Design Studio Working On A Business Suit That Turns Transparent When The...
Intimacy Project The business suits will presumably be a little more modest than these earlier examples from the Intimacy Project. Robert LunakThat'll learn those fatcats. Because we'll all be able to...
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Can Anyone Pay To Name An Exoplanet? It's Complicated
Alpha Centauri B An Earth-mass planet has been spotted orbiting Alpha Centauri B, the closest star system to our own. ESO/L. CalçadaYou can call a star, a distant planet or a faraway galaxy anything...
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Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should)
Tripping On ScienceDreamstimeFor the first time since the 1970s, researchers are being allowed to study the potential medical properties of the most tightly controlled substances around. But it's not...
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Zap Away Would-Be Attackers With This 3800kv Anti-Rape Bra
Anti-Rape BraSHE via BBCFeeling unsafe? Switch on your protective lingerie. In the wake of a highly publicized series of brutalrapes in India, a group of engineering students devised a way to help...
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New Surgical Tape Works Like A Parasitic Worm
Spiny Proboscis An artist's rendition of Pomphorhynchus laevis, a parasitic worm Image courtesy of Karp labThe bandage is inspired by the spiny proboscis of the intestine-infecting Pomphorhynchus...
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The 3 People Who Love The Facebook Phone
Facebook Home: Who's It For?FacebookSpoiler: None of them are you. Professional reviewers have been positive about Facebook Home, the Android skin/launcher that turns your phone's homescreen into a...
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How To Make Beer [Infographic]
How 1933 brewed beerPopular Science archivesCheck out this beautiful 1933 brewing guide from the pages of Popular Science. When the United States ratified the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933, Popular...
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Ale Yeast Running For Official State Microbe Of Oregon
Saccharomyces and Oregon State SealI, for one, welcome our new unicellular overlords. Oregon lawmakers in the House just voted 58-0 to approve its new state microbe. If the state Senate also approves,...
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