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Mysterious Metallic Space Ball Falls to Earth in Africa, Baffling Authorities
Space Ball National Forensic Science Institute via PhysOrgIf you're missing a space ball, please contact Namibia A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of...
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Video: Plasma Torch Toothbrush Successfully Used In Human Mouth
Plasma Brush on Dentist Missouri University Attentive followers of dentistry developments that we are, we've been following the story of the plasma brush for awhile now. And it seems like it's making...
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Comet Lovejoy, as Seen from the International Space Station
Comet Lovejoy, As Seen from the ISS NASA/Dan Burbank via Bad Astronomy Today in pretty space pics: Comet Lovejoy, still alive and heading back out toward the far reaches of the solar system, as seen...
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FYI: Can Snakes Really Be Charmed By Music?
Snake Charmer John Downer/Getty Images No. The charm has nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the charmer waving a pungi, a reed instrument carved out of a gourd, in the snake's face....
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Add Some Veterinary Apparatus To Your High-Tech Cooking Toolkit
The Stapled Bird Denis Verwilghen via ScienceA simple surgical solution to neater meat A team of veterinarians have taken time away from helping fluffy animals to focus on what's really important:...
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A Car Seat That Authenticates the Driver With Butt Recognition
Buttprint Security Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology Biometric security is often focused on the more boring anatomical parts, like the pads of the fingers (ehhh) or the eyes (who cares). So...
View ArticleVerizon Wireless 4G LTE
The fastest network yet Verizon's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network already reaches half the country with towers that transmit data 10 times as fast as other cellular systems. The network has...
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The Most Amazing Images of the Week, December 19-23, 2011
Do You See It? NASA claims this image of the nearby galaxy M74 looks like a Christmas wreath, with sparkling lights in tow. We think it looks more like...well, a spiral galaxy, which is what it is. We...
View ArticleHappy Holidays from Popular Science
Let it snow! That time is upon us. The science and technology of 2011 have been terrifically exciting, but the year is winding down. Here at PopSci, we're strapping on our jetpacks to go spend time...
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This Week in the Future, December 19-23, 2011
This Week in the Future, December 19-23, 2011 Baarbarian As we say goodbye to the year 2011, we reminisce on what came before us, and look forward to what is still to come. In order, according to this...
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Best of What's New, 2011
The Zenith Towers Read more about the Zenith Towers here. Zenith Well, 2011 is almost over. And it's been a great year in science and tech, as our annual Best of What's New awards have shown--from...
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Will We Soon Be Able to Fire Laser Beams From Our Eyes?
Does This Mean We'll Be Able to Fire Beams out of our Eyes? Everett Collection By day, Seok-Hyun Yun and Malte Gather are physicists at Massachusetts General Hospital. But at night, for the past four...
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Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface
Samsung SUR40 SamsungA table that reads The 40-inch SUR40, co-created by Samsung and Microsoft, is a thin tabletop computer that sees and responds to whatever is placed on it. Each of the table's LCD...
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While Listening for Underwater Earthquakes, Seismologists Record Whale Songs
Fin Whale Wikimedia Commons With enormous sets of instruments and giga-amounts of data, it's easy to have too much information in science these days, requiring the careful sifting of signals to reach a...
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PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
Hang Time Bats spend much of their time flying, making them difficult to study. Some have been clocked at 20 mph. Joe McDonald/Corbis The hundreds of millions of bats in the U.S. are in serious...
View ArticleVisualizing Fluid Dynamics in a Two-Horsepower Blender
The Vitamix blender again. In this ultra-slow-motion video, we visualize the violent but beautiful vortex it creates by floating a layer of red oil on a quart of water. Stare deep, deep into the...
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InterfaceFLOR Raw
InterfaceFLOR Raw Jeff HarrisGreen-carpet treatment Some 4.6 billion pounds of used carpeting wound up in landfills last year. Raw carpet tile puts the waste to good use. It's made from a new yarn...
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Cheap Tricks: Slow the Expensive Data Flow From Your Smartphone
Slow the Data Flow pixelgarden.comWith cellular carriers changing their pricing, now is the time to start cutting data usage - and that exorbitant phone bill. The average smartphone user consumed 89...
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Ask a Geek: How Can I Track My Stolen Gadget?
Laptop LoJack Nigel Buchanan Thieves make off with millions of dollars' worth of laptops and mobile devices every year. Most stolen gadgets go unrecovered, but tracking software can help. The software...
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Instant Kool-Aid is a Marvel of Technology
Instant Kool-Aid Mike WalkerA glass of instant Kool-Aid requires eight ounces of water and a surprising amount of innovation When you think of technology, you probably think of computers and jet...
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