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Hey Did You Guys Know There's an iPad Event Today?
iPad 3 Announcement Apple Oh hey, looks like it's Apple Event Day! Apple will be announcing (almost certainly, anyway) a new iPad, which may be called the iPad 3 or the iPad HD, the latter moniker...
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An Apple TV With Siri Could Finally Replace Remote Controls
No More Remotes! Dan NosowitzStop with the gimmicky remotes. Give me voice or give me buttons One of the smaller rumors going around about today's Apple event predicts that Apple will release a new...
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Stop the Foolishness: Of Course Pink Is a Color
Flamingo Flock szeke via Flickr There's an interesting volley online right now between two science journalists I admire, Michael Moyer and Robert Krulwich, over the color pink. In a blog post for NPR...
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Apple's New iPad: The Screen Is Better, and It's Faster
The New iPad Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Apple just announced the newest iPad, which will be called the iPad, and not the iPad 3 or iPad HD or iPad: Eddie Bauer Edition or with any other modifier....
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Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule
Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons into a kind of flash bulb....
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Is Typing Changing the Way We Think?
Keyboard Felipe Micaroni LalliWords you type with your right hand are happier According to a new study exploring the interrelation of language and emotion, if a word consists of letters typed with...
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To Show Us All the Winds of Space, NASA Will Launch Five Rockets at the Same...
Launch Madness at Wallops NASA/WallopsThe tracers will light up the sky on the East Coast One rocket launch is a good time, but five rocket launches is a party. And at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in...
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Electron Ptychography Could Create Tiniest, Sharpest Images Ever
Lily Anther, Still Alive Using a new microscopy technique, scientists can see living cells clearly without the need to stain them, a process which usually kills the cells. These cells are from a lily...
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Robotic Balloon Cranes Could Turn Any Shore Into a Seaport
Tethered Air's Idea for a Robotic Balloon Crane Jeremy Wiley, Tethered Air via LiveScience The future of seaports could be not having any seaports at all. At least that's the vision of Jeremy Wiley,...
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Video: Gigantic Solar Flare Will Wash Over the Earth This Morning
Solar Flare and CME, March 6, 2012 One of two coronal mass ejections associated with two flares on March 6 arrived at Earth this morning. NASA We love a good solar storm, and a pair of flares that...
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Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Twister on the Martian Plains
A Twister on Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Pictured: a Martian dust devil twisting across the Martian Amazonis Planitia region. The 100-foot-wide column of swirling air was captured by the...
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This Month, James Cameron Will Dive to the Deepest Point on Earth in a...
Deepsea Challenger Diving Crews continue in-water testing in Papua New Guinea of DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the submersible that explorer and filmmaker James Cameron will pilot to the bottom of the Mariana...
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Today in Good Reads: Inside the Mysterious Disorder of the Le Roy High School...
Le Roy, New York Oatka Creek, Le Roy, New York. Wikipedia One of the more bizarre and sad television-news gawkeries in recent memory has centered on the uncontrollable tics of a group of high school...
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Reconstructed: a Dinosaur With Four Iridescent Wings
Reconstruction of Microraptor Jason Brougham, American Museum of Natural HistoryMicroraptors like these used to roam the Earth Dinosaur fans have barely recovered from the revelation that some...
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The Mixed Blessings of the iPad's Retina Display
iPad 3 With LTE AppleThe iPad's screen is amazing--but for lovers of magazines, photos, and videos, there may be some unexpected downsides The newest iPad's new Retina display is a marvel of...
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Lockheed's Space Fence Prototype Starts Tracking Space Junk With Advanced Radar
Space Fence Lockheed's Space Fence prototype is tracking orbital debris in a test program for the U.S. Air Force. Lockheed Martin Orbital debris is a large and growing problem, and no one is quite sure...
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New Breed of 'Nuclear Clocks' Could be 100 Times More Accurate than Today's...
Measuring the Cosmos With a Better Atomic Clock NASA/ESA Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers in the world, but a "nuclear clock" would be even better. An international team of researchers...
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DARPA Wants Humanoid Robots That Can Drive Tractors, Open Doors and Save the Day
DARPA is poised to launch a new Grand Challenge for a humanoid robot, according to robotics insiders - and the result could be a souped-up metal soldier running alongside BigDog, driving an ATV,...
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How It Works: An Underground Robot Library
Underground Robot Library Graham MurdochThe research library of the future Engineers from Dematic, a firm that builds automated parts and storage-retrieval systems for Boeing, Ford and IBM, designed a...
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An App That Gives Apes the Ability to Control Robots (This Is a Real Thing)
Bonobo and Lexigrams Bonobo Hope Great Ape Trust Sanctuary Did you know that bonobos have a "fascination with computers"? No? Neither did we. But a new Kickstarter project from the Bonobo Hope Great...
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