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Should Satellite Map Data Be Uncensored For All To Enjoy?
Taiwan Wants Apple To Blur Satellite Images Of A Military Radar Installation On Apple Maps Yuriy Lapitskiy WikimediaIn the latest Apple Maps dust-up, Taiwan asks Apple to kindly blur public images of...
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5 Secrets Of A Successful Space Dive
Wind Gusts Kick Up High altitude balloon twists in the wind just seconds prior to its abortion during the final manned flight of Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA balazsgardi.com/Red Bull...
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7 Musicians We'd Rather See Launched Into Space
Sarah Brightman Wikimedia CommonsSinger Sarah Brightman will be the first professional musician/space tourist. Awesome! But here are some other candidates we'd like to see, too. Click here to enter the...
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A Knife On A Bottle Is The Most Unpleasant Sound In The World
Sabrage sampos via Flickr Sorry, nails-on-chalkboard. The perceived wisdom that you are the worst sound in the world has been upset by a recent Newcastle University showing that the screech produced by...
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Meet Polaris, The First Ice-Drilling Lunar Prospector-Bot
Polaris Prospecting Bot Polaris has three vertical solar panels to generate up to 250 watts of power, along with 3-D cameras and lasers to help it navigate. AstroboticThe solar-powered rover is a...
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FYI: What Causes Near-Death Experiences?
"Heaven Is Real" NewsweekThis week's Newsweek proclaims that "Heaven Is Real"--a neurologist concludes it after a near-death experience. But how much do we know about those experiences? Newsweek slid...
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Daily Infographic: What Is The Real Status Of The Polar Bears?
Polar Politics mag3737 via flickrVanishing? Migrating? Enough with the sad pictures. Today's infographic breaks down where the polar bears are now, and how they're doing. We like polar bears, but we...
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Today In Pretty Space Pics: Weird Gassy Spirals Surround Dying Star
Strange Space Spiral ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)It's the first time scientists have obtained 3-D information about a star's death spiral and offers a hint of our own sun's far future. Astronomers using the...
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Dear Mystery Algorithm That Hogged Global Financial Trading Last Week: What...
Trading Places More computers than people. Rafael Matsunaga via WikimediaOn Friday, a single mysterious program was responsible for 4 percent of all stock quote traffic and sucked up 10 percent of the...
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5 Tips For Scientists On How To Not Write Like Scientists
Dusty Academic Journals Mace Ojala via FlickrA Stanford professor is trying to teach doctors and scientists how to write manuscripts that aren't dusty and jargony. Reading through scientific papers can...
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Cadillac's Tiniest Car Is Also One Of Its Most Technologically Advanced
The Cadillac ATS Courtesy GMFive futuristic features in the new compact sedan Long a purveyor of lumbering land barges, Cadillac has released its first compact sedan in more than 30 years: the ATS....
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A Restaurant With Adjustable Acoustics
The Tunable Room Courtesy Comal/Postcard Communications Fun fact: When the music in a bar gets 22 percent louder, patrons drink 26 percent faster. But if the crowd itself gets too loud, the owners...
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Inside The Swarming Quadrotor Lab Of KMel Robotics
A Philadelphia robotics startup is blazing trails in the nascent unmanned systems industry by focusing on technology, and ignoring the killer app. Every summer, the most creative minds in advertising...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Deadly Meningitis Outbreak
Aspergillus CDCA rare form of meningitis has infected more than 150 people and claimed 14 lives. Are you at risk? And how did the outbreak start in the first place? So there's an outbreak of...
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The 'Impossible' Instant Camera: PopSci Breaks Open The Polaroid SX-70
Polaroid SX-70: January 1973 PopSci archivesLook inside 1973's amazing pocket camera; plus sexy color photos from the archives. "Unbelievable. Spectacular. And revolutionary. Who ever heard of a camera...
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How Blue Light And Caffeine Will Help Humans Move To Mars
One Hour Short of Mars Time A new study says exposure to blue light at the right times, along with smarter caffeine use, can help humans adjust our biological clocks to the 24.6 hour Mars day rather...
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How To Take Better Photos With Your Smartphone
Gnocchi on Towel Stan HoraczekThe photographic obsessives at Popular Photography show you how to play up the strengths and avoid the weaknesses of smartphones--and come out with amazing shots....
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How Do We Know We're Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation?
Living In The Lattice Beane et al via arXivA team of researchers is going down the theoretical rabbit hole with a test to find out if our universe is nothing more than a computer program. We don't want...
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Video: The Last Great American Telescope
How the National Radio Astronomy Observatory works in complete silence to find signals from afar PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture....
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Nearby Earthlike Planet Is Made Of Diamond
Diamond Planet The planet 55 Cancri e is extremely hot, with a surface of mostly graphite surrounding a thick layer of diamond. Below that is a layer of silicon-based minerals and a molten iron core....
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