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This Week in the Future, May 21-25, 2012
This Week in the Future, May 21-25, 2012 Baarbarian No, angler fish! That's a robot, not whatever you usually eat! But maybe the oil slick on the surface of the angler's home is more dangerous than...
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"Modernist Cuisine at Home" Brings a Slightly-More-Affordable Version to the...
Modernist Cuisine at Home Pictured is "our fake home kitchen that we built in our photography studio, just down the hall from our research kitchen at The Cooking Lab," says Scott of Modernist Cuisine...
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Tomato Genome Decoded, Will Seed Development of Tastier, Fleshier Fruits
Ripe and Juicy Manjith Kainickara via Flickr A relatively small cluster of genetic information, some of it dating to 60 million years ago, endows the staple fruit of summer with its taste and texture....
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Video: Quadrotor Drone Flies Around To Your Devices And Charges Their Batteries
Quadrotor The transformed quadrotor uses a magnetic field to remotely charge receivers. NIMBUS Lab Even though we've been able to keep in touch for long stretches of time since the advent of...
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An Exercise Tracker That Doubles as a Real-Time Coach
Nike+ Training System Sam Kaplan Personal fitness monitors are great at collecting data but fail at providing useful interpretations. Users often have no way to translate speed, distance and calories...
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An Integrated Circuit Made of Ions Could Bring Computing Into Your Cells
Chemical Circuit A chemical chip can deliver a neurotransmitter like acetylcholine, which enables chemical control of muscles. Linköping University, Sweden The human body isn't a metal machine, but...
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Guess What's Cooking in the Garage
Guess What's Cooking Ray LegoThe next big breakthrough in synthetic biology just might come from an amateur scientist What follows is a modified excerpt from Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the...
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Watch It Live: SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Splashes Back Down on Earth This Morning
Dragon Capsule SpaceX Updated: One last major milestone achieved for SpaceX's Dragon capsule today: A successful splashdown and recovery. The privately built spacecraft unlatched from the International...
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ALMA Telescope Peeks Through Centaurus A's Swirling Gas Clouds
Centaurus A's Clouds of Gas This new image of Centaurus A combines ALMA and near-infrared observations of the massive elliptical radio galaxy. The new ALMA observations, shown in a range of green,...
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Finnish Scientists Announce a Possible Universal Allergy Vaccine
Pollen A new process could one day keep millions allergy-free. Wellcome Images Scientists at the University of Eastern Finland say they hope to have an allergy vaccine on the market in five to seven...
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Video: Astronaut Don Pettit Plays Space Station Vacuum Cleaner As Didgeridoo
Don Pettit Astronaut/didgeridooist. Don Pettit When he's not busy with his full-time gig, NASA Astronaut Don Pettit takes the time to run some of his own personal science experiments. His latest? A...
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Video: After Robot-Assisted Rehab and a Dose of Chemicals, Paralyzed Rats...
Walking Again After neurorehabilitation with a combination of a robotic harness and electrical-chemical stimulation, a paralyzed rat takes its first steps up the stairs. EPFL/Grégoire Courtine With...
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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Splashes Down Into the Pacific
SpaceX Splash See this image even larger here. Michael Altenhofen Today at 11:42 AM EST, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft boldly smacked into the Pacific Ocean, just as planned. Here it bobs, waiting for...
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Video: Brachiating 'Bot Swings Its Arm Like An Ape
Gibbot Meet Gibbot Robot locomotion can take many forms, from crawling like snakes to rolling like tanks. This one swings like an android ape, using brachiating arm motion to grab onto a surface and...
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Video: The Milky Way and Andromeda Crash Together
Galaxy Crash It's confirmed: the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are heading for each other. The Space Telescope Science InstituteNo galaxies were harmed in the creation of this simulation First, the...
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Watch An All-Star Discussion on the Big Bang and Play PopSci's Buzzword Bingo
Big Bang Wikimedia Commons Tonight at the World Science Festival, starting at 8PM EST, Lawrence M. Krauss, John C. Mather, Amber Miller, Lyman Page, and David Spergel will be discussing the birth of...
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How 4K Resolution Will Bring Movie-Theater Quality Into the Living Room
The Bigger Picture Quick stats: A DVD has about 345,600 pixels per frame. Blu-ray? 2.1 million. 4K? A whopping 8.8 million. Alison Seiffer Since the first high-definition televisions came out in 1998,...
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App of the Month: Transparent Screen for Android
Transparent Screen Courtesy Sascha Affolter It begins with a tweet and ends with a twisted ankle. Still, since everyone seems intent on continuing to stumble along looking down at their smartphones,...
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Researchers Test Space Equipment For Five Days in Austrian Alps
Space in the Alps Researchers used the Austrian Alps as a model for Mars. OEWF (Katja Zanella-Kux) In the ongoing hunt for Martian life, there's one place astronauts haven't yet explored deeply: caves....
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Enter the Popular Science/InnoCentive Cementitious Challenge
Cement Some older cement. Lee Coursey One month from today--July 1st, 2012--is the deadline for the newest InnoCentive challenge. We're looking for suggestions for new applications of a brand-new,...
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