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Space Shuttle Enterprise Makes Its Final Flight
Space Shuttle Enterprise Rides a 747 Over New York Dan Bracaglia The Space Shuttle Enterprise flew over New York today, piggyback-style, on its way to its retirement at the USS Intrepid Museum....
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Video: A 3-D Printed Exoskeletal Glove Gives Precision Control of a...
Festo's ExoHand Festo German robot maker Festo is having a good week. After thoroughly impressing us with its oddly graceful robot that flies by turning itself inside out, now its robotic manipulator...
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Super-Precise Laser Scalpel Minimizes Collateral Damage
Laser Endoscope At left, the packaged endoscope is shown overlaid with the optical system. At right, an image taken with the probe's two-photon fluorescence microscope shows cells in a...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, April 23-27, 2012
Meteor Shower This amazing photo was taken by photographer Brad Goldpaint of the Lyrid meteor shower over the rim of Crater Lake in Oregon. Check out Brad's site for more pics. Brad Goldpaint This...
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Video: ISS Soars Above Beautiful Auroras, Lightning and Stormy Weather Back...
ISS Over the Clouds via YouTube For your morning viewing pleasure, we bring you another beautiful video of one of the rarest views in the universe - Earth lit up from below as the International Space...
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This Week in the Future, April 23-27, 2012
This Week in the Future, April 23-27, 2012 Baarbarian Did you know that pigeons soared with such grace, determination and (literal) magnetism? We were pleased to find the hidden nobility in the...
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Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene
Silicon Atom Like carbon, silicon has four valence electrons, and the two elements share some similarities. Wikimedia Commons Silicene could be the material of the future. Or at least the material of...
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Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You're Healed
Duct Tape Bandage There is a better way. ktylerconk via FlickrNo need to peel them off Finely spun starch fibers woven into a bandage could dissolve on your skin and be absorbed by your body,...
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Video: Herb the Robot Butler Microwaves Your Dinner For You
Dinner is Served CMU Robotics They can fetch sandwiches just fine, but robots can have a hard time cooking meals, with proper pancake flipping a serious and daunting challenge. So why not have them...
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Mexican Electro-Receptacle Dispenses Free Wi-Fi in Exchange for Deposits of...
Terra Poo You'd think the prospect of clean grass would be enough to induce good behavior, but still, some dog owners neglect to pick up after their animals. A new concept gives people another...
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Morphable Concert Hall Ceiling Shape-Shifts For Superbly Customized Sound
Resonant Chamber A prototype of the Resonant Chamber morphing ceiling, with wiring at left and the acoustic panels seen from below, at right. RVTR Despite creative acoustic design, concert halls can't...
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Using Big Data and Genomics to Create the Ultimate Dairy Cow
Building Better Dairy Cows Brian Robert Marshall via Wikimedia What happens when you mash up Big Data, genomics, and a whole lot of Holstein dairy cows? You get the best bull in America. In The...
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Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More Potent Bird Flu
Flu Virion This negative-stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts the ultrastructural details of an influenza virus particle, or virion. Cynthia Goldsmith, Centers for Disease Control and...
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The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use...
Carrots are Good for You Your next biologic drug treatment could be grown in a carrot cell or some other plant-based biological factory. Kander via Wikimedia Big news on the pharma front today: for the...
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What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human?
The Loebner Prize for Most Human Computer The Loebner Prize is an annually conducted enactment of the Turing test for artificial intelligence. Loebner.netIn his book The Most Human Human, Brian...
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'Jetman' Yves Rossy Takes to the Skies Above Rio de Janeiro
Yves Rossy, Our Favorite 'Jetman,' Takes on Rio de Janeiro This morning PopSci's favorite Jetman, Yves Rossy, strapped on his four-engine rigid wing, took a helicopter up into the skies above Rio de...
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Celebrate Robert Moog's Birthday With a Google Synth
Moog Doodle Google Robert Moog, the inventor of the seminal analog audio synthesizer that bears his name, is celebrated by Google today, in one of the search giant's classic time-sucking doodles....
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Video: Amazing Coating For Bottles' Interiors Lets Ketchup Flow Like Water
LiquiGlide, developed by a team at MIT's Varanasi Research Group, is a surface coating that liberates the notoriously non-Newtonian fluid ketchup from its glass- or plastic-walled prison. The research...
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New 'Mechanical Metamaterial' Expands When You Compress It, Shrinks When You...
Mechanical Metamaterials Could Create Cushions That Push Back Johan via WikimediaIt's 'opposite day' for metamaterials Metamaterials research has generally focused on media with strange or unique...
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DARPA and Craig Venter Fire Up Bio-Factories For Quick, Streamlined Genetic...
Recombinant E. Coli The blue-dyed bacteria contain a special protein that is disrupted when the DNA is spliced and recombined. When the enzyme is interrupted, the bacteria turns white instead of blue....
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