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Science Confirms the Obvious: Literature is Good for Your Brain
Reading Makes You Smarter But you already knew that. margolove via FlickrReading might make you smarter, but it also gives your brain a cognitive workout that it doesn't otherwise get In news that...
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Video: Big Dog Is Back
DARPA's Newest LS3 Demonstrators DARPAAnd now less terrifying (sort of) DARPA's terrifying Big Dog is back, this time a little less terrifying (but still pretty terrifying). Two of the robotic...
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Vintage PopSci: NYC Tornadoes Were Nothing Compared To These "Supernatural"...
"A whirling vortex that can snatch up a horse and buggy": July 1935 "Static electricity charged barbed wire fences, stalled automobiles, and made men's and women's hair stand on end" This weekend's...
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Brilliant 10: Christy Haynes Reveals the Secrets of the Body's Blood-Clotting...
Christy Haynes Courtesy Christy HaynesAn inside look at the elusive platelet Human blood cells are fairly well understood. That's not true of platelets, the tiny nucleus-free discs that circulate in...
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The Next Generation of Cocaine-Smuggling Drug Submarines
Sinking the Submarine The U.S. Coast Guard released this photo of a sinking self-propelled semi-submersible that U.S. and Honduran officials interdicted in north of Honduras on March 30, 2012. The...
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Today on Mars: Nice Undercarriage
Ready to Roll This is Curiosity's wheel, photographed by the Mars Hand Lend Imager (MAHLI) instrument. And there you can see the rim of Gale Crater in the distance. And th- wait, what is THAT BLACK...
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Vintage PopSci: Reporter Climbs the World Trade Center Construction Site in 1971
From supply platform at 109th floor, Gannon peers down at lower Manhattan skyline: 1971 "They will soar 1,350 feet, higher than anything man has ever built" Two years before the official opening of the...
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FYI: Why Do Girls Throw Like A Girl?
Erin DiMeglio YouTube/CBSNewsOnlineThe genders are more alike than they are different, with one notable exception. You don't need to look any further than last week's news cycle to see proof that a...
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"There Is No Such Thing As Time"
Gamma-Ray Burst European Southern ObservatoryAstrophysicist Adam Frank's new book mixes cosmology with humanity. How does our understanding of the universe and cosmic time inform our daily lives?...
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Sperm Can't Turn Left, Or Don't Want To
Sperm Up Close Joyce Harper, UCL, Wellcome Images A new imaging technique allows researchers to follow the agile, elusive male reproductive cell. Sperm are small, but they're quick-an individual sperm...
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3 Reasons Why Football Is Evil [Vintage PopSci]
Football: A sport plagued by brutality and extravagance State Library and Archives of Florida via flickrA mathematics professor issued an urgent warning about football in 1894. America ignored him. The...
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Write Your Name In The Stars With This New Font
The Future Now GalaxyZooPlenty of galaxies look like letters, so why not use them as letters? When you spend lots of free time categorizing images of galaxies, you start to see recognizable...
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This Escape Pod Could Save Lives In A Tsunami
Safety Capsule Matt Duncan with his four-man Tsunami Survival Pod. Gold Coast BulletinWatching footage of the 2011 Japanese tsunami inspired Matt Duncan's design. Australian business owner Matt Duncan...
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How An Underfunded Team Of Spanish Astronomers Could Help Solve The Mystery...
Looking Back Astronomers hunt for dark energy by comparing the universe now to how it was soon after the big bang. Gary S. Chapman/Getty ImagesFor less than $10 million, the team is trying to figure...
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Mysterious Martian Spheres Might Be The Weird Work Of Water
Martian Spherules Small spherical objects fill the field in this mosaic combining four images from the Microscopic Imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The view covers an area about 2.4...
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The U.S. Conducted Atomic Weapons Tests On Beer
Wasp Prime Test From Operation Teapot Wikimedia CommonsAn uncovered file documents Cold War-era investigations into an important question: is it safe to drink beer that was exposed to an atomic bomb...
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Arrr! Did Captain Kidd Hide His Gold In An Ox-Swallowing Underground Vault?...
Did Captain Kidd hide his loot in the tide-guarded money pit of Oak Island? Gather 'round, ye flea-bitten cockroaches, fer a pirate's tale o' treasure an' science. (In honor of International Talk Like...
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This Is What The Depression Sounded Like
Aldo Leopold in the Country Aldo Leopold is shown at his shack in Sauk County, Wisc., circa 1940. Researchers have reconstructed the soundscape of the naturalist's famous shack, using his detailed...
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Today On Mars: MAHLI Translates Martian Discoveries For Human Eyes
The MAHLI Calibration Target Two images were combined to take this photo of the calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). That penny at the bottom? It's a sly nod to geologists'...
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How Bats Can Help Scientists Design Better Robots
Micronycteris microtis This common big-eared bat is eating a katydid. WikipediaBats can detect ultra-small perturbations in the air, and understanding this ability could improve sensitive detection...
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