Intrepid Michigan Tween Restores Her Own Future Car
When I was a kid in Buffalo, N.Y., the route back to my parents' house passed a Pontiac dealership with a red Fiero displayed on the corner. I was years away from driving age, but I wanted this car. I...
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Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
fMRI NIMHfMRI could forecast weight gain Brain scans can hear our thoughts, make us learn by osmosis and even predict our actions. Now a new study claims that functional MRI scans can reliably judge a...
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Nanoparticle Coating Makes Paper Magnetic, Waterproof, and Antibacterial
Waterproof Paper Paper doped with nanoparticles is rendered antimicrobial, waterproof and even magnetic. IIT A nanoparticle spray can turn regular paper into superpaper, rendering it waterproof,...
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Test Drive: The 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth
Fiat 500 Abarth Fiat Fiat says its catchphrase "small but wicked," applied frequently to the new 500 Abarth, was coined for the Abarths of the 1960s, and while we think that may be apocrypha, it...
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FYI: Is the Glass Really Half-Full?
FYI Glass Sabine Scheckel/Getty Images No one is entirely sure. Water has high surface tension, yet the molecules at its surface are unstable, which makes the air-surface interface mysterious and...
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Simple Project of the Month: Build A Rotating Time-Lapse Camera Stand
Versatile Platform The timer can be mounted on most standard tripods, not just this GorillaPod. Larry ToweA panning platform made from a kitchen timer If you're into time-lapse photography here is a...
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Nikon's New Entry-Level DSLR Has 24.2 Megapixels, More Than the 5D Mark III
Nikon D3200 Nikon Our friends and office-mates over at Pop Photo just got themselves a look at the new Nikon D3200. It's Nikon's entry-level DSLR, but that's becoming less and less of a turn-off--the...
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The World's First Transgenic, 'Handmade' Cloned Sheep is Alive and Well in China
This is Not Peng Peng But's it's adorable, no? Donald Macleod via Wikimedia The world's first transgenic sheep produced via a simplified cloning technique, known as handmade cloning (seriously), is...
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For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Splitting into Smaller...
We generally think of electrons as fundamental building blocks of atoms, elementary subatomic particles with no smaller components to speak of. But according to Swiss and German researchers reporting...
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Video: A DIY Flight Simulator Built in the Nose of a Real Boeing 737
The Flight Deck of a 737 Not a simple build. Sol Young via Wikimedia Some people golf. James Price tiners with the full-blown flight simulator he's been building in the nose of a Boeing 737 jetliner in...
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Self-Inflating Tubes Let You Control Your Bike's Tire Pressure While Riding
Pump Your Tires While You Ride Adaptrac Whether you're tackling mountain trails or just trying to get through Manhattan's Chinatown, rough terrain can put your bike's tubes at serious risk. It's not...
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This Is My Remote Control
QuantumFx REM-115 Remote Dan Bracaglia A few weeks ago, a company called VooMote sent me a press kit that included two universal remotes. The first was a VooMote Zapper, a little infrared dongle that...
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Turn Your Old Notebook Into A Touchscreen Tablet
Netbook To Tablet Greg Maxson Tablets are taking over the portable-computing market, but that doesn't mean the netbooks that they've replaced are useless. It's possible to jam the processing power and...
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Pumping Gas Into Commercial Airliners
Full Service Jets consume 320 million gallons of fuel every day, worldwide. Someone has to pump it. Benedict Redgrove At London's Heathrow, which moves more international passengers than any other...
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Video: Making a Stream of Water Flow Up, Using Trickery
Droplets Frozen in Mid-Air Brussup If you only watch one optical illusion today in which a stream of water appears to have droplets freeze in mid-air or inch their way backwards back into the tube from...
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New Report Urges Extreme Caution Against Infection When Landing on Alien Worlds
Enceladus and its Plumes of Water NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute As Earth humans begin to seriously consider sending missions to icy worlds like Europa and Enceladus, one of the necessary concerns...
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FYI: Where Is The Center of the Universe?
FYI Universe Stocktrek Images/Getty Images First, it's important to know that the big bang wasn't an explosion of matter into empty space-it was the rapid expansion of space itself. This means that...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, April 16-20, 2012
Into the Sunset We already saw a ton of beautiful shots of the space shuttle Discovery riding atop its Boeing 747 transporter to its new home in the Smithsonian. This might be one of the more poignant....
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The Robots That Can Be Blown Up and Keep On Detecting IEDs
Bombs Away Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Reuters/Saad Shalash The homemade bombs known as IEDs accounted for 60 percent of all U.S. military injuries in Iraq and have killed...
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Archive Gallery: Our Obsession with the Titanic
Evening News: Titanic Disaster Great Loss of Life PopSci readers have always loved the unsinkable ship From the moment the devastating news reached New York, America has been utterly enthralled by the...
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