Obama Ordered Stuxnet Virus, Part of Organized Cyberattacks Against Iran
Cyberattacks Escalated Obama's cyberattack order significantly expands the historical use of cyberweapons in the United States. Wikimedia Commons According to a report today in the New York Times,...
View ArticleMake Your Mornings Explosive With a Defusable Alarm Clock
Rude Awakening Users can pull the wires out of their screw terminals instead of cutting them, so the wires don't need replacing every day. Courtesy Michael Krumpus Inspired by the iconic look of time...
View ArticleReview: A Serious Speaker, Amp, and DAC in a 2.5-Inch Cube
NuForce Cube NuForce Our buddies over at Sound+Vision just posted a review of a gadget we've been excited about: the NuForce Cube, an absolutely tiny (2.5 inches!) cube of audio power. They seem to...
View ArticleArchive Gallery: The Exciting Growth of The Periodic Table
U.S. Alchemists Make Gold: March, 1948 PopSci discovers the elements, one by one The periodic table of elements, organized thoughtfully from hydrogen to ununoctium, is a tribute to the accomplishments...
View ArticleThe Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, May 28-June 1, 2012
Run Rat Run This rat may be running a little oddly, but remember what happened to it--this rat was previously paralyzed, and a combination of drugs actually enabled it to walk again. Read more about it...
View ArticleThis Week in the Future, May 28-June 1, 2012
This Week in the Future, May 28-June 1, 2012 Baarbarian Is this week's Baarbarian illustration a Robert Palmer reference? Or just a horrifying singing tomato with rat backup dancers and a shiny grill?...
View ArticleVideo: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat Into a Flying Quadcopter
Orville the Flying Cat via Sky News After Bart Jansen's cat Orville was killed by a car, the artist had the animal taxidermied and then, "after a period of mourning," converted the stuffed kitty into a...
View ArticleNintendo Updates Wii U With NFC and Legit Online Connectivity
Updated Nintendo Wii U Controller Nintendo Yesterday at E3, the gaming industry's biggest American conference, Nintendo showed up with a 30-minute video updating their upcoming Wii U console--there...
View ArticleFirst Images From Complete Map of Mouse Brain
The Mouse Brain Architecture Project Tiny cross-sections of mice brains combine into a high-resolution, 3-D photo. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Despite plenty of advances in neuroscience, often what...
View ArticleHow The Last Transit of Venus in Our Lifetime Will Help Us Find Other Planets
Tomorrow's historical astronomical event is not just a beautiful novelty Tomorrow, skywatchers the world over will look up to behold a strange sight witnessed just seven times in the past five...
View ArticleVideo: Motivating Robot Follows You on Your Morning Run
Joggobot Exertion Games Lab Same old jogging routine got you bored? Can't move your leaden legs faster than a 15-minute mile? Turn into a juggernaut with Joggobot, a hovercraft that will fly above your...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Smart Glass Is Like Apple's AirPlay, But More So
Microsoft Smart Glass Microsoft Today at E3, the massive electronics expo that yesterday played host to Nintendo's announcement about the updated Wii U, Microsoft broke out an announcement that's...
View ArticleSwiss Scientists Program Mammalian Cells to Work As Logic Gates
A new biologic logic gate based on proteins can perform binary calculations, serving as the first "cellular calculator," researchers say. Various combinations of components can be arranged into circuit...
View ArticleHow to Watch the Last Transit of Venus This Century
Observatories the world over will be watching on Tuesday as Venus crosses the face of the sun for the last time in any of our lifetimes. It will be a banner day for astronomers, providing ample...
View ArticleWhat We Saw at the World Science Festival: Quantum Levitation
An unearthly demonstration of the eternal feud between superconductivity and magnetism Enthusiastic crowds jostled to get a better view of the quantum levitation display at Innovation Square on...
View Article2012 Invention Awards: Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
A set of contact lenses that turns the wearer's field of vision into a screen After two decades as an electrical engineer, Randy Sprague quit his job in 2008 to start a solar power company. He had been...
View ArticleBoeing's Corpulent Hydrogen-Powered Drone Makes Its First Flight
PhantomEye in Flight Boeing Eventually it will fly for four days straight, making only water as its waste product. But a journey of four days starts with a few minutes, so the chubby PhantomEye's first...
View ArticleWith New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient's Past Foretells His Medical Future
Doctors can do HARM to prevent disease An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the saying goes, and a new algorithm will test that formula by predicting what will be wrong with a patient in...
View Article2012 Invention Awards: A Recovery-Accelerating Modular Cast
The cast can be removed piece by piece for sectional healing When Kelly Anderson shed her arm cast two months after a wrist operation, her joints were so stiff she couldn't turn a doorknob. She didn't...
View ArticleFather's Day Gift Ideas: What's On Your List? [Sponsored Post]
Stanley® Gift Ideas Do you have a fickle father? Do you cringe when thinking about trying to find the right Father's Day gift? Well, thanks to the folks at Stanley those days are over! The Stanley tool...
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