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9 Things You Didn't Know About Poison
Golden Poison Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) © AMNH/T. Grant A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History explores the weird and wonderful world of poisons. Curated by evolutionary biologist...
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Can Organisms Evolve The Ability To Evolve?
Borrelia burgdorferi Bacteria Electron scanning micrograph. Color added digitally. Photo credit: Janice Haney Carr. Content Provider: CDC/Claudia Molins. Can things evolve to evolve? Okay, so that...
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The Worst Jobs In Science
Bush-Meat Market Data Collector Sure, everyone loves monkeys. But few test that love like Jake Owens. An environmental science Ph.D. candidate at Drexel University, Owens studies the ecology and...
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First Satellite Built By High School Students Launches Tonight
NASA Ames engineers are building PhoneSats, demonstrating how "off the shelf" consumer devices can lead to new space exploration capabilities. NASA Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart Orbital Sciences'...
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Watch Blade Runner, Made In More Than 12,000 Watercolor Paintings
Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece, is the greatest science-fiction movie ever made.But what about Star Wars, dummy?No. It is Blade Runner. If you haven't seen it--then my Lord,...
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Engineering The Sour
Basil Daiquiri Achim SchleuningThe Margarita, the Daiquiri, the Cosmopolitan, the Whiskey Sour, the Mai Tai: These and hundreds of other popular drinks can all be boiled down to one basic recipe...
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When Cosmopolitan Sent A Victorian Lady To Race Around The Globe
Elizabeth Bisland and Nellie Bly Bisland (left) and Bly (right) in their travel gear, in photos taken to publicize their race Both photos are from the New York Public Library Archives Sixteen years...
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NASA's Tips For Interpreting Satellite Images
Straight Lines Mark Off Land Parcels in a Mixed-Use Forest NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Landsat 8 data from the USGS Earth Explorer Here at Popular Science, we love satellite...
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A Hand-Crank GIF Player
GIFs, those short, silent, looping animations found all over the internet, are wonderful. But what if some apocalyptic event wipes out the internet? How will you view your favorite GIF? The Giphoscope,...
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Wind Turbines Kill More Than 600,000 Bats A Year. What Should We Do?
Wind Farm At Dusk Caveman Chuck Coker on Flickr If you comb the ground beneath a wind turbine, you may not find anything out of the ordinary. Dead birds or bats are hard to find, especially...
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How Scientists Preserve Lincoln's Original Gettysburg Address Manuscripts
The Gettysburg Address Cornell University Library/Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln uttered the 10 sentences that would come to be known as the...
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Xbox One Review: I'm Sorry I Raised My Voice
Xbox One Microsoft I wouldn't say a lost my temper with the Xbox One. Because I actually, for the most part, enjoyed the experience. But I did raise my voice. And for that I apologize. Everything...
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Keep Your Keys In The Cloud And Have Them Delivered When You Need Them
Locked Out Photo by 12th St David on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0KeyMe, the company that brought robot locksmiths and photo-copy-able keys to New York, is launching a new service. This time, there's not...
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Vancouver Banned Doorknobs. Good.
Doorknob Jim SimonsonIn Vancouver, the humble doorknob is being phased out. Kind of. Effective in March, new housing will be required to install levers on doors and faucets, instead of the good-ol'...
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Everything You Thought About Amateur Biotech Is Wrong
The Wilson Center today released a report debunking the media myths surrounding the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement, called “Seven Myths and Realities about Do-It-Yourself Biology” based on my survey...
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How International Guidelines For Lab Mice May Interfere With Cancer Research
The Long-Suffering Lab Mouse Oak Ridge National Laboratory Given the choice, a mouse wouldn't keep his house at what's considered "room temperature" for people. Mice are smaller. They lose heat...
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Happy 15th Birthday, International Space Station!
Rendering of the ISS Popular Science May 1998 Fifteen years ago today, the Russian Space Agency launched the first component of the International Space Station into orbit. The piece was a pressurized...
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Allow Wu-Tang Clan's GZA To Rap To You About The Big Bang
Rapper GZA, of Wu-Tang Clan fame, is releasing a space-themed album called Dark Matter. He's even been chatting with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the project. Here, as part of a talk at...
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Readers Respond: Don't Touch Our Doorknobs
Lever Handle Delaney TurnerIn a post this morning, I wrote that Vancouver's plan to ban doorknobs from being implemented in new buildings in favor of lever-style handles was a great idea. Doorknobs...
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Art on the Mind
©Maki Naro Hey New Yorkers, tonight (11/20) at ABC No Rio is the opening reception of Collect, Store, Retrieve, an exploration of the "mechanics, makeup, fallibility, and plasticity of memory." The...
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