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11 Terrifying Childcare Inventions From The Early 20th Century
UV baby branding: December 1938Popular Science archivesEnjoy the motorized hanging cradle, the baby gas mask, the UV-ray baby branding prod, and more "infant-friendly" gadgets from the Popular Science...
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Exclusive Infographic: Should You Buy A New iPhone?
Everyone wants to know: should I spring for a new iPhone? So we made an infographic that'll guide you through that thorny question. Well, the day is finally here! Right now, you can head on over to...
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Doctors Vacuum A 2-Foot-Long Clot Out Of Man's Leg
Historical Illustration of the Muscle and Circulatory SystemsFrom Bartholomeo Eustachi's color plates, first published in 1564. Hosted online by the National Library of Medicine.The human body is so...
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For $50, This Company Will Send You Weird Stuff Hand-Selected By Bill Nye
Bill Nyevia Quarterly Co.Get a curated package from the Science Guy every three months. Bill Nye, science educator and excellent dancer, is prepped and ready to send you a box of personally curated...
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Audi: Carbon Fiber Too Expensive; Future Is In Mixing Materials
Audi Le Mans prototype; lightness through carbon fiberAudi is looking beyond carbon fiber for stronger, lighter cars. BMW just yesterday began production of its carbon-fiber-bodied i3-a vehicle that...
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The First Computer With Leap Motion Gesture Control Built Right In
HP Envy 17 With Leap MotionLeap MotionLeap Motion, the Kinect-like gesture control system we profiled here, is super exciting; it measures gestures to the hundredth of a millimeter, and works on any...
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8 Of The Prettiest Space Photos Of The Year
Astrophotographer Of The Year AwardsLászló FrancsicsThe Royal Greenwich Observatory's Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners are on display now in London. Time to drop whatever it was you were...
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Waggling Phallic Scanner 3-D-Maps The Tower Of Pisa In 20 Minutes
The spring-mounted laser scanner does its work while sproinging around comically. The Zebedee, created by Australia's national space agency, is a 3-D scanner, but it's not quite like any 3-D scanner...
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A Giant Teddy Bear And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Giant Teddy BearIza Rutkowska thought up the giant teddy bear at the bottom of this photo as a sculpture that would be a little more cuddly than the traditional stone monuments in Warsaw, Poland. The...
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Game Company Valve Will Probably Announce A Console On Monday
ValveValve CorporationValve is leaping into the hardware business. (Probably. Almost certainly.) Valve, the gaming company behind hits like the Portal and Half-Life franchises, plus the creators of the...
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Have Modern Scientists Made Any Advancements In Alchemy?
Platinum OreClever chemistry could replace pricey catalysts such as platinum.Getty Images Ancient alchemists tried just about anything to turn lead into gold. But if they had just had a laser, they...
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Watch The World's Nerdiest Rendition Of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
This is what happens when you mix string theory and arena rock. If the world of physics doesn't work out for Tim Blais, there's always show biz. The McGill University grad student is a master at...
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BlackBerry Is More Thoroughly Dead Now
BlackBerry Z10Dan NosowitzShortly after announcing the newest BlackBerry flagship phone, the Z30 (a followup to the just-ok Z10), BlackBerry released its quarterly earnings report. Things are...not...
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4 New Legless Lizards Discovered In California
Anniella grinnelliThis is one of four new species of Anniella recently discovered in California.Photo by Alex KrohnThey're not snakes. One species lives right by LAX. You always knew there was...
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Republicans Block Proposal For National Science Laureate, Fearing Science
Who'd be against science?Norman Rockwell for Popular ScienceHouse Republicans, fearing action on climate change, do the nation a distinct disservice. Earlier this week, House Republicans quietly...
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The Week In Numbers: Sad News For Life On Mars, Earth's Smallest Car, And More
No Martians here?NASA / USGS1.3 parts per billion: the maximum concentration of methane in the Martian atmosphere, according to a new analysis from the rover Curiosity (sadly, this means the red planet...
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Your Autumn Guide To Apples [Infographic]
Apple Family TreeSean SeidellApples are weird. Here are their weird names. The Baldwin. The Northern Spy. Apples are almost always named after old, moneyed English people and books they would read. And...
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Air Pollution Deaths Around The World [Infographic]
Air Pollution Deaths Around The World Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon based on data provided by Jason West You've probably seenthosephotos of Beijing on a bad pollution day. Such days come...
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How To Stop Hackers
Little Hackers Wikimedia Commons Imagine a world where security guards learn to be robbers first. The guards take a class where they don black masks and smash through a glass case to appropriate...
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Are Acid Flashbacks A Myth?
Psychedelia Ирина Печкарёва via Wikimedia CommonsReports of drug-induced flashbacks have existed since the1950s. Though the term "flashback" wasn't used specifically until 1969, as early as 1954...
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