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Spit-up Night at the Improv
Babies laugh for all kinds of reasons, but what is actually going on behind the giggles? ECohen, via Flickr I make a fishy face, I wriggle to silly baby songs, and I do my best Donald Duck impression....
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The World's Tallest Waterslide And Other Amazing Images From This Week
World's Tallest Waterslide MidwestInfoGuide via USA Today
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To Roam Again The Pyrenees: Scientists Plan To Clone Extinct Mountain Goat
French Western Pyrenees Photo by Nicolas Guionnet, CC BY-SA 3.0Spanish scientists are checking in on a batch of cells, frozen in liquid nitrogen 14 years ago. The cells belonged to the last bucardo, a...
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The Week in Plagues: A World Without Antibiotics, Why You're Not Drowning in...
not the weakest link dcJohnHere are some links on infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web this week. There were some great longreads, so I hope you have time this weekend to dig in....
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Enter Popular Science's 8th Annual Invention Awards
Passionate inventors in modest workshops around the world, often backed by little more than ambition and a big idea, are minting surprising new technologies that stand to change the world.Popular...
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Asteroid Named After Thomas Pynchon
Eros, a near-Earth asteroid NASA/JHU/APL In the November 20 edition of the Minor Planet Circular, 49 minor planets got new names. Many are named after fellow scientists, such as Jeffrich (Jeffrey Rich...
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The Week In Numbers: Meat-Free Meat, A Futuristic Warship, And More
Chicken-Free Strips It took more than two decades to create a vegetable-based meat analogue with a consistency and texture similar to chicken; Whole Foods began selling the packaged Beyond Meat...
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How Scientists Are Learning To Shape Our Memory
Down Memory Lane The human brain has roughly 100 billion neurons and can store about 2.5 petabytes of information. But where you put your keys last night? The answer is always suspiciously...
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Aw, Look At These Cute Miniature Satellites Being Launched Into Space
Cubesats are relatively small, cheap, boxy satellites that promote citizen space-science. Secondary function: they look cute and hilarious when being dumped into space. NASA just released this image of...
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FDA Orders Personal Genomics Company 23andMe To Stop Marketing DNA Test
23andMe 23andMe Since 2007, 23andMe has been selling a personal genomics test: using a kit, you submit your saliva for genetic sequencing, and receive a dataset all about your genealogy, disease risk...
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Terrifying Humanoid Robot ATLAS Defeated By Block Of Wood
ATLAS--the totally incredible Boston Dynamics robot that strikes love and fear into the hearts of all who witness its humanoid stride--is having a tough time lately. Last month it broke its ankle...
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Watch The Maiden Flight Of An 18-Propeller Copter
This helicopter-with-antlers is a test vehicle, made by the German company e-volo. It's battery-powered and emissions-free, according to the company. This is the first time it has flown.The e-volo...
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See Comet Tails Flap In Solar Wind
Last Thursday, NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) captured images of two comets passing through solar wind. At the center is Comet Encke, and emerging later is Comet ISON. STEREO...
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Greatest Hits From The Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge
This summer, we asked readers to submit their best project ideas for a shot at crowdfunding through RocketHub.com. Hundreds vied for the chance to make their dreams a reality, and by the end of the...
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How Far Can You Damage A QR Code Before It's Unreadable?
Will It Scan? What does it take to take down a QR code? More than I would have guessed, actually. In a blog post, engineer Nick Berry made a quick response code pointing to his company's website,...
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How To Ship A 17-Ton Magnet
Travel Advisories The magnet wouldn’t fit through tollbooths, so an all-highway route wouldn’t work. And if it fell from a helicopter through power lines, it could cause a blackout. Waterways were the...
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Good News: You're Not As Revolting As You Thought
Flickr/smplstc You know how your white shirts look sadly dingey after just a few wears and washes? Your nice white towels are suddenly more of a cream? Comforting news! You’re not as greasy and sweaty...
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This Adorable Turtle Bot Will Help Underwater Archeologists
u-CAT swimming in an aquarium at Centre for Biorobotics mihkell via Flickr, Courtesy of Centre for Biorobotics, Tallinn University of Technology Sure, there are plenty of UAVs and ROVs and other...
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Watch A Machine Tell The Difference Between Soda And Liquid Explosives
The problem with liquid explosives, besides being explosive, is that they often look just like non-explosive liquids. Since 2006, to protect against the threat of those explosives, people traveling...
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FYI: What’s The Most Durable Way To Store Information?
USB Drives David Arky/Getty Images Despite claims to the contrary, the storage media in wide use today—CD-ROMs, spinning hard drives, flash memory, etc.—aren’t very durable. “You’re talking years, not...
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