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Amazing Avian Photos Captured By Strapping Cameras To Birds
Strapped to a Bird Courtesy of DiscoveryNot only that, but John Downer also creates replicas of birds and fires them into the sky to capture real birds. The results are incredible. Our friends over at...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Plays With Toys
The Physics of Toys The science, the creation, the business, and the fun of toys Toys are a serious business, we learn in the PopSci archives. Click here to launch the gallery. Be thankful your parents...
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Oceans Built On Tabletops And Other Amazing Images Of The Week
Tabletop Lagoon Gaetano Pesce via It's Nice ThatA social media life-vest, a building shaped like a bad acid trip, an abstract look at volcanoes, and more of our favorite images from this week Click...
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BeerSci: What Running Marathons Can Teach You About Beer
Mmmmm, beer Martha HarbisonMartha Harbison, a senior editor at Popular Science and former physical chemist, introduces a new column on the science of homebrewing. The United States has an estimated 1...
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This Week In The Future: Koalas Launch A House From Australia To Space
This Week In The Future, October 1-5, 2012 BaarbarianIn the future, when the koalas have taken over as masters of Earth, they'll get rid of the humans by launching their homes into space. Want to win...
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You Built What?!: A Tesla Coil Gun That Produces Foot-Long Sparks
Super Taser Michael ClinardModeled after a Nerf gun--but with 200,000 volts under the hood While browsing a bookstore near his home in Seattle last year, Rob Flickenger came across a graphic novel...
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Vintage PopSci: 8 Absurd Predictions About The Future That Sorta Came True
Professor A.M. Low PopSci archivesWriting in 1925, British scientist A.M. Low predicted that we'd eat breakfast via feeding tubes and bald would be beautiful. This guy totally augured Go-Gurt and Vin...
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Video: SpaceX's Dragon Capsule Blasts Toward Space Station
Dragon Launches Oct. 7 The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule lift off Oct. 7 NASAThe capsule thunders aloft, carrying cargo under the U.S. flag for the first time. SpaceX's Dragon capsule launched...
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Medicine Nobel Awarded to Stem Cell Pioneers Who Reprogrammed Adult Cells
Neurons Derived From Stem Cells Neurons derived from human neural stem cells. The green staining highlights the typical appearance of differentiated nerve cells. Cells such as these could form the...
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Chanting "Party Hard!" While A Man Gets Zapped With A Million Volts
David Blaine In The Rain See this image larger! You'll like it! Dan NosowitzAndrew W.K. soundtracks David Blaine's newest stunt. Turns out, when you add stupid to stupid, you get something a little bit...
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New Black Hole Discovered [Video]
New Black Hole NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterAn X-ray nova lit up the sky enough for NASA's Swift satellite to spot it. We could say NASA has just discovered a never-before-seen black hole, but it...
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Out Today: 'Modernist Cuisine At Home,' Now Smaller And Cheaper
Salad cutaway Chris Hoover/ Modernist Cuisine Last year's largest, most high-tech cookbook now has a friendly little sister. It seems like just the other day that a 40-plus-pound set of books called...
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The Alien Origins Of Felix Baumgartner's Attempt To Skydive From 23 Miles Up
The UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico Jennifer BogoRoswell, New Mexico, was the drop zone for some of the first high-altitude skydives, precursors to Baumgartner's record-setting...
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11-Year-Old Boy Makes Most Important Woolly Mammoth Discovery Of The Century
Woolly Mammoths Wikimedia Yevgeny Salinder found an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil in northern Russia (complete with its 1.5-meter-long penis intact!). It has become awfully easy to discover...
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With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At Roulette
Science of Roulette clry2 via FlickrAs with any good experiment, knowing your initial conditions is key. Sick of letting their mastery of calculus and classical mechanics go to waste, physicists in...
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1 In 10 People Believes The World Will End In 2012 [Infographic]
Armageddon Roger Smith via flickrArmageddon is upon us, according to...a surprising number of people! The Americans, Chinese, and Turkish have the world's sharpest sense of impending doom, according to...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Grabs Its First Fistful Of Martian Sand
A Nice, Big Scoop This image from Curiosity's left navigation camera shows where the soil collected by the scoop was removed from the ground. The scoop left a hole 1.8 inches wide....
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Why Are Bedbugs Back?
The Bed Bug Brooke BorelA Kickstarter project by a PopSci contributing editor will track the history of the biting pest. You probably know someone who has had bed bugs--or you've had them yourself. If...
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Remember When The Nobels Used To Be Inspiring?
Double Facepalm The 2012 Nobel Prizes have thus far inspired only snores. This is usually one of the best weeks of the year for me: Nobel week, when a select group of scientists are publicly lauded for...
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Watch PopSci's Editor-In-Chief On 'Top Secret' Tonight, And Win A Cool Book!
Popular Science editor in chief Jacob Ward in Top Secret, premiering October 9 National Geographic Channel Tune in for a chance to win "Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide." The first of two new...
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