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Video: GRASP Lab Quadcopters Play the James Bond Theme on Actual Instruments
Quadcopter on Percussion We've written so much about the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab and their adorably awesome autonomous quadcopters that we kind of feel like we've watched them grow up....
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U.S. State Department Wants You to Find Fugitive Gem Thieves Via Twitter
Finding Faces in a Crowd thisisbossi via FlickrPlay the Tag Challenge later this month How quickly can an organically grown network of manhunters find five fugitives in five different countries? Later...
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The Canon 5D Mark III Is Here
Canon 5D Mark III Dan Bracaglia Canon's followup to the 5D Mark II, easily one of the most popular DSLRs ever made, is finally here, and it looks like a healthy sequel (and competitor to the...
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Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to...
Bottled Consciousness? Gaetan Lee via WikimediaA Russian mogul wants to make sure the answer is yes, and soon When Steve Jobs passed away last year, a joke bounced around--not that there was anything...
View ArticlePopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confluence of Quilting and the Large...
How a quilter ended up in the pages of a particle physics publication We first became aware of Kate Findlay's work thanks to Symmetry Magazine, which publishes articles relating to particle physics....
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Was This Robotics Research Done Just As Setup For a Pun?
Scalybot Snake robot on a plane! Georgia Tech We had to laugh about this robot from Georgia Tech. To design it, researchers put snakes on a plane - an inclined surface - and watched them slither. The...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, February 27-March 2, 2012
Laser Rainbow This laser rainbow projection is a project from artist Yvette Mattern. It's a kind of a promotion for the London Olympics; it'll shine along the North Tyneside coastline for four days....
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Meet Your New Robot Receptionist, the DARPA ARM 'Bot
Recepto-Bot DARPANever worry about answering the phone or stapling documents again Bad news for long-term receptionists: DARPA's ARM (Autonomous Robotic Manipulation) robot can perform a whopping 18...
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This Week in the Future, February 27-March 2, 2012
This Week in the Future, February 27-March 2, 2012 Baarbarian Aw, this is cute. This robot is so in love with Mona (or is motivated by her red lipstick, whatever) that he draws a heart. Only it's a...
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Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels Repair Themselves After Sustaining Damage
UC San Diego's Self-Healing, Squishy Hydrogels Joshua Knoff, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering The ability to heal--to repair oneself repeatedly and thus sustain damage repeatedly--is one of...
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Could Iran's Ultra-Tough Concrete Withstand Bunker-Busting Bombs?
Exploding Concrete Wikimedia Commons Iran may not impress us with its flying saucer drones, but the country does at least one thing better than anyone else: Make concrete. Iran is in an earthquake...
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By the Numbers: Flu Season, Visualized
Flu Season Pitch Interactive Strains of seasonal influenza behave slightly differently season to season and strain to strain. The differences are revealing. The rate of transmission of the 1918...
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The Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Celebrates Its First Full Year in...
Well, we're celebrating anyhow--there's no telling what it's actually doing NASA may no longer possess a reusable vehicle for traveling to and from low earth orbit, but the United States Air Force has...
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FBI Arrests Members of LulzSec Hacking Group, With Help From the Inside
This Is Sabu via Fox News Fox News revealed this morning the identity of the man who's been assisting the FBI in their takedown of LulzSec, a hacker group loosely associated with Anonymous that's...
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Hubble Catches a Warped Spiral Galaxy in Profile
ESO 510-13: Warped Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), C. Conselice (U. Wisconsin/STScI) et al., NASA The Hubble Heritage Team captured the warped structure of spiral galaxy ESO 510-13 so beautifully in...
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Video: Meet Piccolo, the Pocket-Sized CNC-Robot That Draws What You Design
Piccolo, the Tiny CNC-Bot For less than $70 It's no secret that PopSci loves robots, but even we think they have some shortcomings--mainly that there aren't more of them everywhere doing everything,...
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Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere
Lego Shuttle via YouTube So many intrepid stratonauts send stuff into the upper atmosphere these days, it's almost hard to keep track - there's even a suborbital balloon factory now. But this weather...
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Stowaway Seeds Carried By Unwitting Humans Are Colonizing Antarctica
Mt. Herschel, Antarctica Andrew Mandemaker via Wikimedia Seeds are surreptitiously hitching a ride on human visitors to Antarctica, threatening to sow invasive species in one of the last remaining...
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Gray Matter: In Which I Dip My Finger In Molten Lead
Braving The Elements The metal reached temperatures of more than 500°F. Mike WalkerThe true test of trust in science Last year, I stuck my hand in super-cold liquid nitrogen for the amusement of PopSci...
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Tevatron Finds Hints of Higgs Boson, Just Where CERN Sniffed it Last Winter
Tevatron Somewhere in those big rings a tiny particle may be hiding. U.S. Department of EnergyPosthumous results from Fermilab's accelerator Before it stopped colliding for good, America's defunct...
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