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James Cameron, Charles Simonyi, and Ross Perot, Jr. to Unveil Space Project
Asteroid Mining Not an image from Planetary Resources, just a stock photo we happen to have of asteroid mining. Kevin Hand Planetary Resources, a mysterious organization whose investors include Google...
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PopSci's Friday Lunch: a Can of Surströmming With Harold McGee
Food-science expert McGee and adventurous culinary technologist Dave Arnold invite PopSci to sample rotten fish When Popular Science was acquired by Sweden's Bonnier Corporation in 2007, some people...
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This Week in the Future, April 16-20, 2012
This Week in the Future, April 16-20, 2012 Baarbarian This week in news that definitely happened and is full of verifiable facts, a paper-swathed superman closed the lid on his CrabOS laptop to fight a...
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The Human Element
Live Fighters Aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, pilots play a key role in shows of force and complex missions. Even as drones become integrated into the fleet, pilots will lead. U.S....
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Today in Pretty Space Pics: The Flowerlike Ring Nebula
The Ring Nebula Composite Image Data - Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing and additional imaging - Robert Gendler Gaze into the center of the Ring Nebula, which appears from...
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Cadillac's ‘Super Cruise' Mode Will Keep You In Your Lane Automatically
No Hands Cadillac "Super Cruise" is designed to ease a driver's workload, according to the luxury carmaker. General MotorsRelax your hands and feet while this car drives for you Though driverless cars...
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Video: Last Year's DARPA Hypersonic Glider Test Failed When Vehicle Sped...
HTV-2 in Flight You can't imagine the shutter speed our photographer had to use to capture this shot (kidding). DARPAAt 13,000 miles per hour, these things happen After roughly eight months of...
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Today in Mind Reading: Brain Scans Can Predict If You're About to Make a Math...
Solving the Math Silenceofnight via Flickr Along with predicting our future behaviors, brain scans can guess when we're about to make a cognitive error, mis-processing a math problem because we're...
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Video: Flying Thing Propels Itself By Flipping Inside Out
Inversion Flying Object Festo Flying objects can achieve forward thrust in a few ways, but here's a unique new one: Flipping inside out to move forward. Designed by the people who brought us the...
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Doors Unlock With Keyed Vibrations Sent From Your Smartphone Through Your Bones
It gives the term skeleton key a whole new meaning: a prototype system from AT&T Labs that beams a unique vibration through a user's bones to be picked up by a receiver in a door handle,...
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GPS Satellites Could Improve Tsunami Advance Warning Time Tenfold
The Devastation Following the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami U.S. Navy When the Tohoku earthquake struck Japan in March of last year, seismometer data allowed authorities to issue earthquake...
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Intel's New Ivy Bridge CPUs Will Give Your Next Laptop Legit Gaming Power
Intel Ivy Bridge Processors Intel If you buy a cheapie laptop, you're going to get onboard graphics--historically underpowered, since they exist on the same die as the CPU, and thus historically...
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Changing The Teeth On The World's Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine
Drill Dentists Kevin Hand Next year, workers will start digging a 1.7-mile tunnel underneath downtown Seattle using the world's largest tunnel-boring machine. The 57.5-foot-diameter, $80-million drill,...
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Today: Commercial Space Venture Sets Sights on Mining Asteroids for Minerals
Small Asteroids Could be Captured by Spacecraft and Mined for Water and Minerals Planetary Resources Inc. Since the announcement last week that a team of high-profile backers--Eric Schmidt and Larry...
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A Mystery 140 Years in the Making
Found Tucked into the December 1928 Issue Could it contain a password? Something is odd in the PopSci archives The complete back issues of this magazine-all 1,680 of them-are stored in a walk-in closet...
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First Treatment for Prion-Based Brain Diseases Involves Glowing Polymers
When proteins go rogue, polymers get busy Good news in the battle for the brain: Researchers in Sweden and Switzerland have found that toxic prions--diseased variants of naturally occurring neural...
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Will You Use Google Drive?
Google Drive Google Google has been rumored to be working on a cloud storage service for about as long as we've known what cloud storage is, and today the company finally unveiled it: Google Drive. It...
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Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?
Asteroid Eros This spud-shaped rock is asteroid 433 Eros. Gregory W. Nemitz claimed to own it and aims to develop it. In 2003, he sued NASA in search of parking fees after the NEAR spacecraft alighted...
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Why Mining an Asteroid for Water and Precious Metals Isn't as Crazy as it Sounds
Planetary Resources wants to start mining asteroids, and there's no good reason why they cannot Billionaire-backed space startup Planetary Resources has officially unveiled its business plan to much...
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In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause
Four Particles Jon Heras, Equinox Graphics Ltd. A real-world demonstration of a thought experiment conducted at the University of Vienna, has produced a result that is somewhat befuddling to people...
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