Clik here to view.
Climatologist: Nuclear Power Only Way To Curb Climate Disruption
Fossil fuel emissions bar chart We've added about 370 gigatons of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels to the atmosphere since the start of the industrial age. Keeping the total to 500 gigatons or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our Favorite Science And Technology Reads From 2013
The Year In Science Jesse Lenz It was a great year in reading, but no one could've caught all of the amazing science and technology stories. So we've rounded up a few--from Popular Science, as well as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chinese Supercomputer To Forecast Smog
Smog in Beijing Berserkerus, via Wikimedia Commons Old supercomputers don't die, they just get practical day jobs. China's Tianhe-1A, the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2011, is now being put...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-QX100
Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-QX100 Sony No matter how much smartphone engineers manage to shrink image sensors, they haven’t found a good way to downsize a quality lens, so images suffer. The QX100 is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cabela's Colorphase Camouflage
Cabela's Colorphase Camouflage Sam Kaplan Cabela’s new ColorPhase Camouflage gives hunters chameleonlike powers. Depending on the ambient conditions, the dyes in the fabric’s foliage pattern will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S Navy/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Alvin
U.S. Navy/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Alvin Kevin Hand Since 1964, Alvin has made more than 4,600 career dives in pursuit of bombs, hydrothermal vents, and the wreck of the Titanic. Now,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scientists With Sense Of Humor Explore Dangers Of Laughter
I want what this dog is having. Licensed under Creative Commons. PearlsandaCardi via Flickr Over the holidays, the British Medical Journal publishes a special edition, in which they "are pleased to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New York Tests Laser Detection System For Subway Tracks
Man Backs Away From Roar Of Subway Train, 1973 Erik Calonius, via Wikimedia Commons In December of 2012, Ki Suk Han was fatally pushed onto the train tracks at Manhattan's 49th Street subway station....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cardboard Headphones And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Cardboard Headphones Studio Zimoun via Co.Design
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cardboard Headphones And Other Amazing Images From This Week
ArrayThe artists at Studio Zimoun, best known for their sonic experimentation, made these awesome cardboard headphones. A cotton ball connected to a DC motor drums over the end, sending a beat to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Brain Scans Can Lighten Sentences In Murder Cases
Go To Jail Dreamstime A prison escapee convicted of killing a vacationing couple in their 60s—for their trailer, according to a newspaper from the couple’s hometown—recently dodged the death penalty...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fewer Reindeer, More Wildfires: Welcome To The Arctic In 2013
Reindeer Alexandre Buisse via Wikimedia CommonsSummer sea ice in the Arctic got a respite this year, as did the Greenland ice sheet, because cooler summer temperatures prevented a repeat of 2012's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pneumatic Tube System Delivers Burgers At 87MPH
Pneumatic Tube Delivery System in the Basement of the New York Life Insurance Building Popular Science, January 1930 A restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand, plans to install a pneumatic tube system...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Facebook's New Machine Brain Will Learn All About You From Your Photos
How AI Sees The World Graham Murdoch Facebook users upload 350 million photos onto the social network every day, far beyond the ability of human beings to comprehensively look at, much less analyze....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cassini Spots Mosaic Of Extraterrestrial Seas
Mosaic on Titan NASA-ESA The joint NASA-ESA Cassini space probe, exploring Saturn and her moons, has revealed extraordinary lakes and seas of liquid methane around the north pole of Titan. Scientists...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ROV Heads To Seafloor To Explore Lost Shipping Container
The robotic arm of the ROV “Doc Ricketts” uses a “push core” to sample sediment from underneath the shipping container as a large crab observes. Chad King MBMNS/NOAA Scientists at the Monterey Bay...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Week In Numbers: A Real Jetpack, The Dangers Of Laughing, And More
Martin Aircraft Company P12 Jetpack Martin Aircraft Company 63 miles per hour: the speed of the P12 Jetpack, a personal flight device that can reach 8,000 feet50 hours: the time it took electrical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wii Fit Plus Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar
Wii Fit Plus Model with a Screenshot As you might already know, playing Wii Fit is a funny thing. It feels kind of like cheating—because aren’t I supposed to be grunting it out at the gym or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ford 1.0-Liter EcoBoost
Ford 1.0-Liter EcoBoost Ford With three cylinders and less than one liter of displacement, Ford’s EcoBoost is smaller than many motorcycle engines. Yet it still produces 123 horsepower and 148...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down
China’s Chang’e 3 spacecraft landed on the surface of the moon Saturday night, Beijing time. The craft is China’s first to land on the surface of the moon. This is a video of the landing, taken by...
View Article