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5 Old-Timey Medical Treatments That Actually Work
World War I-era apparatus for electric treatment of psychological maladies Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine Thanks to vast improvements in hygiene, pharmaceuticals, and...
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Zapping Invasive Plants from a Helicopter
Trae Menard takes aim at an Australian tree fern, demonstrating how his crew once used paintball guns to deliver pellet-sized blasts of herbicides to stop invasive plants. © Ethan Welty, used with...
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Twitter Vine
Twitter Vine Vine Vine earned the title of top free download in the App Store in less than three months. Why such a splash? It’s the first app to make mobile video uploading easy. Vine’s success is...
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Spiders In Your Fruit: A Good Thing
As a courtesy to bug-phobes, some of the more lurid images in this post will be hidden until and unless you press this button.SHOW Grapes on the Vine Wikimedia Commons Last month, at a grocery store...
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Finding Friends In Primate Places
Barbary macaques work together to stay warm Pete Birkinshaw BinaryApe/Flickr Just like the human versions, nonhuman primates are social creatures. They clean each other, cooperate with each other,...
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A Brief Tour of the Triassic
©Maki Naro "Tour" is probably too grand a word for the scale of this comic, but while researching what was or was not plausible for this story (I know, really that all went out the window with the...
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A Family Built This Museum-Quality Curiosity Rover
Heat Seeker An infrared camera in the rover’s chest helps visitors detect hidden hot rocks. The twin masthead cameras, however, are just for looks. “A requirement of all our robots is personality and...
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First Chinese Rover On Its Way To The Moon
Illustration of the Chinese Lunar Rover Yutu CNSA For the first time in more than three decades, the moon may soon see some soft-landing, human-made visitors. China launched its first moon rover—and...
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How A Battleship Works [Vintage Infographic]
How A Battleship Works Click here to see a larger version of this image. S.W. Clatworthy, Popular Science The age of battleships is long over. The United States built the USS Missouri, the nation's...
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Solve This Building Like A Rubik's Cube
If you're a Rubik's cube expert and a bit of an exhibitionist, maybe you'll be interested in this mind-blowing project from artist Javier Lloret: a giant, remote-controlled LED puzzle cube made out...
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Life With Tesla Model S: Even After Update, Vampire Draw Remains
2013 Tesla Model S electric sport sedan Photo by owner David Noland The Tesla Model S, for all its technical and design artistry, has a dirty little secret: the car has a substantial appetite for...
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Australians Cryogenically Freeze Coral Sperm From The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef around Cape Flattery, Australia, 2003 Photo by Ed Lu, made available through the International Space Station Program Well, that's one way to go about it. Over the past few...
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A Snapshot Of Earth's Exoplanet Neighbors [Infographic]
Our Neighborhood xkcd There may be more Earth-like planets outside of our solar system than we once thought, but as this infographic from the great webcomic xkcd shows, we're still outnumbered by...
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Warning: Drones That Appear on News Magazines Are Further Than They Appear
Amazon It’s fun to make fun of Amazon’s delivery drones. “Amazon is exploring drone delivery,” tweeted Atlantic writer Philip Bump last night. “Or, put another way, ‘Amazon gimmick gimmick gimmick.’...
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Humans Share Food Chain Level With Pigs, Study Finds
Apex Predator An orca rams a young gray whale near Unimak Pass, Alaska. Orcas are carnivorous apex predators and hold the highest spot in their food chains. People's varied diets, on the other hand,...
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Why Amazon's Plan For Delivery Drones Isn't Quite Realistic
Amazon Prime Air Octorotor Amazon.com We've had a laugh at drone-delivery marketing gimmicks before, and Amazon Prime Air—announced yesterday during a flattering segment on 60 Minutes—may very well be...
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The Tamron 18-270mm All-In-One™ 15X Zoom Lens: Just One Lens for Every Travel...
The Tamron 18-270mm All-In-One™ 15X Zoom Lens Tamron's award-winning 18-270mm All-In-One™ zoom lens is the photographer's best travel companion. This ultra compact 15X zoom goes from wideangle to...
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So Long, Dear Console. We Knew You Well.
Atari 2600 Wikimedia Commons Forty-one years ago, Magnavox introduced the first cartridge-based console, the Odyssey. Seven generations later, the boxes have become fixtures in our entertainment...
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How Bars Are Using High-Tech Equipment To Make Better Drinks
Rotary Evaporator The Bar With No Name, London As cocktails in top bars become increasingly sophisticated, more work is required to perfect them, and much of that preparation now happens behind the...
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Better Know a Plague: Bed Bugs
Cimex lectularius (bed bug) Gilles San MartinHere, I unveil an Our Modern Plagues series, which was inspired by Stephen Colbert’s recurring segment Better Know a District. My version—Better Know a...
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