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How Long Would It Take To Walk A Light-Year?
The vastness of our Milky Way galaxyESO/C. MalinIf you burn about 80 calories per mile walked, you'd need two trillion PowerBars to fuel the trip. If you started just before the first dinosaurs...
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Big Pic: A Martian Eclipse That Looks Like Googly Eyes
Phobos EclipseNASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.As the Mars rover Curiosity glances up at the sun, one of the moons that orbits its new home passes in front of the sun. On...
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Long John Silver's, Makers Of America's Unhealthiest Restaurant Meal, Is...
Big CatchLong John Silver'sThe restaurant takes action after a lobbying group called its fish-and-onion rings meal the worst in the U.S. Update: Long John Silver's is actually eliminating all trans...
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Why Do U.S. Behavioral Science Researchers Keep Skewing Their Results?
Mad ScienceJ.J. via Wikimedia CommonsGo America, land of exaggerating to get ahead! Despite its lofty ideals, science isn't always impartial and unbiased. Scientists on occasion have fabricated data,...
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Which NATO Weapons Could Strike Syria? [Infographic]
NATO Options Against SyriaFarwa Rizwan / Al Arabiya EnglishHere are the options for military action against Assad. The United States and its allies are considering an attack against Syria's government....
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Algoraves Are The Nerdiest Way To Get Your Dance On
RaveRick Doble via Wikimedia CommonsAlgorithms make the music, you make the party. Nerds, gather at the dance party! It's time to algorave. Meaning the DJs will be spinning algorithms, not just...
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Do Kids Eat More Veggies When Schools Serve Healthier Lunches?
A look at school lunch data You can build it, but will they eat it? In a new study, the U.S. Department of Agriculture examined whether serving more fruits and veggies in school lunches is actually...
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New Details Emerge On The Surveillance Technology Used To Hunt Osama Bin Laden
National Security Agency HeadquartersWikimedia CommonsAll the technology in the world doesn't beat a knock on the door. New documents detail the sophisticated, if only partially successful,...
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A Darth Vader Tank And Other Amazing Images From This Week
A Machine-Part VaderArtist Gabriel Dishaw uses parts from old machines--keys from typewriters, circuit boards, etc.--and reassembles them into Star Wars characters. Seems like there's something off...
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A Campaign To Save The World's Ugliest Endangered Animals
Pig-Nosed FrogWikimedia CommonsThe pig-nosed frog deserves your love (and cash for conservation), too. It's well-known that the more adorable and charismatic of the endangered animals get most of the...
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Help Crowdfund These Awesome Science Projects Before Midnight
The Popular Science #CrowdGrant ChallengeThe window to fund science and technology projects in Popular Science's #CrowdGrant Challenge closes tonight, Aug. 30, at 11:59pm EDT. Back in April, we called...
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The Week In Numbers: Scientists Grow A Brain, Element 115 Exists, And More
Brain In A DishA 3-D model brain organoid with different brain regions. All cells show up blue, neural stem cells are red and neurons are green.Madeline A. Lancaster4 millimeters: the size of a...
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This Is What An Urban Heat Island Looks Like
Hot Hot Heat IslandNickolay Lamm, StorageFront.comSummertime in the city. Ugh, New York City, you sweaty mess. Summer in New York City, bless its big, appley urban heart, can be miserable. The city is...
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With Nymi Wristband, Your Heartbeat Unlocks Your Devices
Rendering of How the Nymi Will Look When ShippedBionymCould be convenient Here's a twist on knowing thy heart. A startup is looking to manufacture a wristband that recognizes its wearer by his or her...
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10 Board Games We're Glad We Never Played
Archive: Games, May 1972Nearly 100 years of questionable games in the pages of Popular Science Popular Science's history isn't all flying cars and geodesic domes. Readers of the past liked to have fun,...
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FYI: Can I Buy The Moon?
Stake OutGovernments can't claim land on the moon, but individuals and corporations may one day be able to.NASA/iStockOr at least a little piece of it? Can I buy the moon? For now at least, the moon is...
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9 Trippy Photos Of Soap Film
Colors, No Ion WindLinden GledhillDuuuuuuuude All these psychedelic colors don't look too impressive in the bottle. That's because they come from a film of soap, which Pennsylvanian Linden Gledhill...
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This Weird Tiny Frog Hears With Its Mouth
Gardiner's FrogR. Boistel/CNRS"Talk directly into my mouth, please." The Gardiner's Seychelles frog is one of the smallest amphibians in the world, measuring less than half an inch long. But their...
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Bill Nye To Join Dancing With The Stars
Bill Nye the Science GuyEd Schipul via Wikimedia CommonsWouldn't you want to take a spin around the dance floor with the Science Guy? When I imagined Bill Nye dancing with the stars, I assumed he'd be...
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Samsung Announces The Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
Samsung Galaxy GearSamsungThe biggest wearable computer from a major company, ever. Interested??? The Galaxy Gear is a connected wristband, essentially a watch with a small LCD screen and lots of...
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