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NASA Adopts Two Spare Spy Telescopes, Each Maybe More Powerful Than Hubble
The National Reconnaissance Office is giving away its secret double Hubbles It almost sounds too good to be true. Twin Hubble-quality space telescopes currently collecting dust in upstate New York are...
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Book Review: The Transits of Venus Down The Centuries
Modern science moves so fast that it's easy to reflect on the changes of the past week, let alone the past decade or century. But astronomy is one notable exception to this rule. Arguably no other...
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FYI: Can a Bladder Actually Burst?
Bladder Burst BioPhoto Associates Only under special circumstances. "I mean, it doesn't just happen to any Joe Schmo walking down the street holding his urine too long," says Scott Eggener, a urologist...
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A Programmer Uses Kinect To Make Striking Distorted Images
Plus: two more strange Kinect projects While experimenting with new applications for Kinect's real-time, 3-D imaging capability, San Francisco freelance coder Robert Hodgin discovered a way to make...
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Video: What We Saw at the World Science Festival's Innovation Square
A robot petting zoo, complete with a flying robo-bird, plus the world's lightest material and an algorithmic dance-off MetroTech Plaza in Brooklyn was packed with science and technology enthusiasts on...
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2012 Invention Awards: A Better Lobster Trap
The Bait Savour adds the critical time dimension to crustacean catching During a regular fishing season, most lobstermen can afford to check and rebait their traps only every three or four days. Each...
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Video: Venus Sweeps Across the Face of the Sun For the Last Time This Century
Transit Begins SDO image in extreme ultraviolet. NASA Watching the transit of Venus through telescopes at the local planetarium was impressive, but it was nothing compared to this view from the Solar...
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Mars Colonization Mission Will Happen Live on Reality TV
Mars One A Mars mission, paid for with ad space. Mars One One of the primary obstacles to human colonization of Mars is the funding -- creating a habitable environment and sending humans across the...
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The 25 Best Places in the World to Photograph
Maruata Bay Ethan Welty/Aurora Photos You've got a new camera and you're brimming with ideas on how to test it out. But where should you take it that's not totally cliched? To answer that question,...
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Enter the Popular Science/InnoCentive Air Pollution Challenge From the U.S....
Smog in New York City Wikimedia Commons A brand-new challenge from InnoCentive has a massive payday--a whopping $160,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and...
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Remembering Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Ray Bradbury Pour out some dandelion wine Web editor Paul Adams ruined my morning by walking over to my desk to inform me that Ray Bradbury had died at age 91. The news was unpleasant, but I...
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Video Device Reads American Sign Language and Translates It Into Audible English
MyVoice Translator University of Houston Sign language can greatly improve the communication capability of hearing-impaired people, but there's still a major barrier in that most people don't...
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How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter...
Also, crows are scared of Dick Cheney. Told you they were smart The corvid family--a widespread group of birds made up most prominently of crows, ravens, and magpies--are no ordinary birds, with a...
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2012 Invention Awards: A Spring-Loaded Ice Skate
Spring-loaded skates that give hockey players a boost David Blois manages condominium properties near Toronto, but at any given time he's usually also working on several inventions-a solar-powered...
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Scientists Decipher Almost the Entire Genome of an Unborn Baby
Happy Baby Wikimedia Commons In a new study fraught with some heady ethical questions, scientists have sequenced almost the complete genome of an unborn child, and done so without interrupting the...
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Rough Sketch: Self-Guided Bullet
Straight Shooter Trevor Johnston"Our .50-caliber bullet can guide itself to a hit half a mile away" For years, people have tried to come up with ways to steer bullets, and everyone has consistently...
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Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor
Perhaps no creature packs a more intimidating punch - especially relative to its size - than the peacock mantis shrimp. It feasts on snails, crabs and other mollusks and crustaceans by smashing through...
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There Are a Million Billion x Five More Billion New Drugs Awaiting Discovery
Lots of Pills e-MagineArt.com via FlickrThat's a novemdecillion drugs Think a trip to the pharmacy is overwhelming? Try this: One million billion billion billion billion billion billion. That's a 1...
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Could Cops Scan Suspicious Web Search Terms for Pre-Crime Prevention?
Crime Scene Michael Melchiorre via Flickr Might the death of Juliana Mensch have been predicted, and perhaps prevented? The people accused of strangling the 19-year-old in Fort Lauderdale this spring...
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Testing the Novara Gotham: A Bike With Infinite Gears
Cyclists of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains (and derailleurs) Summer's here and it's time to get back on the bike. We could have looked at a fancy new ultralight, but the...
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