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The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, August 27-31, 2012
Self-Conscious Penguin AP Photo/Alastair Grant We could've just added great photos of Neil Armstrong that popped up this week--and we did include a few--but we also have some great images from terra...
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This Week in the Future, August 27-31, 2012
This Week in the Future, August 27-31, 2012 Baarbarian You'd dream of steak too if you were just coming off a Pepto-Bismol bender. Want to win this inscrutable Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt?...
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Amazon's New Kindles Include Tablets, Insanely Cheap Prices
So Many Kindles via The Verge Amazon presented its new Kindle lineup in Los Angeles today, and there are a whole bunch of new rectangles for you to read and watch and work and play on, which I'll get...
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CMD & CNTRL: Tim Wu on Net Neutrality, Information Empires, and Freedom
PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos run the gamut from in-depth, investigative reports to profiles of the...
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Video: Cyborg Cockroach Scurries Along a Precise, Curved Path
Cyborg Cockroach NC State We've seen schemes for remotely-controlled cyborg insects before, including at least one DIY kit for building your own robotically-enhanced cockroach, but researchers at NC...
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The Labs That Go Boom: The Plasma Physics Laboratory Makes Miniature Suns
A Crash Course in Plasma Physics Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of CommunicationsCranking out plasma at 100 million degrees This month, as part of our special on the future of education, PopSci presents 10...
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Megapixels: A Monkey Controls a Robot Hand With its Mind
Monkey Do, Robot Do Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Reuters/China Daily The first direct brain-machine interface, developed in the 1990s, connected a computer to a rat. By 2003,...
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FYI: Why Is Bill Clinton So Good at Speaking to a Crowd?
Bill Clinton Addresses the DNC REUTERS/Jim Young Communications expert Greta Stahl reveals the five keys to a great political speech There is a reason why so many of you were enthralled by former...
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The Labs That Go Boom: The Trauma Mechanics Research Initiative Crushes Skulls
Whiplash The Realistic Dummy Head, or RED Head, is a synthetic, mechanically realistic human cranium with silicone-based skin and a polyurethane skull. The skull contains simulated cerebrospinal fluid...
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PopSci Q&A: How Do You Drive a Car On Mars?
Curiosity's Journey, One Month In So far, Curiosity has put 109 meters on the odometer, and it's 89 meters from where it touched down at Bradbury Landing. It's headed for an outcrop dubbed Glenelg,...
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The Labs That Go Boom: The DHS Center of Excellence Destroys IEDs
Fire in the Hole A mixture of gunpowder and coffee creamer explodes at the University of Rhode Island. JJ SulinLearning to stop bombmakers--even before an explosion goes off This month, as part of our...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, September 4-7, 2012
Bear Car A member of Greenpeace, dressed in a polar bear costume, protests a Russian company's plans to drill for oil in the arctic. AP Photo/Misha Japaridze Okay, so that's not a real bear being...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Admires the Presidents
Thomas Jefferson, Inventor: February, 1927 Jefferson, Kennedy and some other guys Popular Science has seen 28 presidents (Grover Cleveland twice) since its founding in 1872. Though the magazine tries...
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This Week In The Future, September 3-7, 2012
This Week In The Future, September 3-7, 2012 Baarbarian Artificial lightning lashes the fastest robot in the world, as it reclines on its robotic carpet. That is this week in the future. Want to win...
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How Engineers Can Help Prevent Water Wars
Flow States Ryan SnookProjects like Turkey's Ilisu Dam can heighten political tension. But there are ways to bring it down a notch Somewhere around 2014, if all goes according to plan, Turkey will...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Snaps a Self Portrait, Records Some Lolz on the Red Planet
Since Mars Curiosity Rover's landing in the Red Planet's Gale Crater last month, we've seen pictures from just about every imaging instrument aboard the robotic geology lab. But today, we're seeing a...
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Diane Von Furstenberg Has Nerdiest Runway Show Ever
Google Glasses Fashion Andrew Kelly/Reuters We're about halfway through the Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week here in New York, which often doesn't have all that much of interest for us. But at the Diane Von...
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Researchers Drill World's Deepest Hole in the Ocean Floor
Drilling the Core Crewmembers wrangle with the drill during operations last week. JAMSTEC Japanese researchers have toppled a 19-year-old record for the deepest passage into the floor of the world,...
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A New Tack for HIV Vaccines, and Why This Problem Is So Hard to Solve
Rhesus Macaque Wikimedia Commons Attempts to create a vaccine for HIV have failed time and again partly because no one has been able to achieve the right vaccine balance - one that can spur the body...
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Infographic: How America Burns
America On Fire NASA's Earth-observing satellite fleet watches wildfire and prescribed fire burn the United States every dry season. NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterTimelapse video shows wildfires...
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