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Daily Infographic: A Mesmerizing Map Of Water Currents On The Great Lakes
Great Lakes Current Map NOAA/GERL Researchers at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory borrowed some code from the designers who made this incredible wind map to create the world's first...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Takes A Bath
Thanks for the Rinse NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science SystemsCuriosity rinses its instruments with three washes of sand to decontaminate itself before doing science. Today on Mars, Curiosity is...
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The More Chocolate A Nation Eats, The More Nobel Prizes It Gets
The Recipe For Nobel Laureates Just add chocolate. André Karwath via WikimediaBut not really. A research paper shows how perfectly verified statistical results can still be perfectly wrong. Today in...
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BioLite CampStove Review: Cook Your Food And Charge Your Gadgets In The...
BioLite CampStove BioLiteThe BioLite is a regular woodstove, meant for camping, but it converts excess heat to electricity so you can plug in any USB-powered gadget. Just in case your iPad dies while...
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FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong's Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?
Lance Armstrong Wikimedia CommonsNo surprise: performance enhancers enhance performance. But they might not give me the instant mountain-scaling boost I want. Hundreds of pages of fairly damning...
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7 DARPA Challenges We Want To See Next
Beam Me Up epimetheus via FlickrDARPA wants help coming up with new Grand Challenges to expand the abilities of humans. So we made them a list. DARPA, the military's crazyscience wing, is known for...
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Daily Infographic: What Are Your Cat's Murder Stats?
Cold Blooded Matthew InmanThe number-one scourge of the bird population is cats. But other cats, right, not yours? The Oatmeal investigates Sometimes, when your cat comes back from...wherever cats go,...
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What If We Could Upgrade The Internet As Fast As We Upgrade The Gadgets It...
A Better Data Plan Ryan SnookOur long history with the Internet is causing us to lag behind other countries. But maybe there's another way. We invented the Internet here in the U.S., but other...
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Archive Gallery: Fire Safety With PopSci
Dangerous Jewelry A wristwatch could burn down the building. PopSci archivesFight fire with fire science. And fear the fire demons. It's a shame that you can't actually fight fire with fire. That would...
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BeerSci: A Mild Beer For Surviving A Marathon, The Holidays Or Anything, Really
Homebrew! Martha Harbison/ Flickr Our trusty BeerScientist introduces a recipe for the Mild Marathon ale, using some of the year's most plentiful hops. A "mild" is a type of ale first produced in the...
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This Week In The Future: Polar-Bear Businessmen Gamble With Chocolate
This Week In The Future, October 8-12, 2012 BaarbarianIn the future, the global financial market will be controlled by a small group of polar-bear executives. No one will believe the conspiracy...
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A Giant Mysterious Eyeball And More Amazing Pictures
Mystery Eyeball This softball-sized eyeball washed up on the shore in Pompano Beach, Florida this Wednesday. Scientists aren't sure what animal it belongs to, although they note that giant squid often...
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Felix Baumgartner's 23-Mile-High Skydive LIVE
4:18am MDT - Security was extremely tight at the Roswell International Air Center this morning for Felix Baumgartner's second attempt at skydiving from 123,000 feet above sea level. 4:18am MDT -...
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Watch Felix Baumgartner's Record-Setting Jump From 32,000 Feet Live
7:35am MDT - Felix is in the capsule now prebreathing pure oxygen. He does that for up to two hours to rid his body of nitrogen... 7:35am MDT - Felix is in the capsule now prebreathing pure oxygen. He...
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FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It's Melted?
Why So Delicious? Annabelle Breakey/Getty Images It's largely about how it feels in the mouth. Once a piece of cheddar has been heated to around 150°F, the matrix of milk proteins that provide its...
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And How Can We Stop It?
The Next Threat Gary Ombler/Getty ImagesOut of the wild In June 2008, a Dutch woman named Astrid Joosten left the Netherlands with her husband for an adventure vacation in Uganda. It wasn't their first...
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Rough Sketch: "We Made a Robot That Moves Like a Person"
Walk Like a Man Trevor JohnstonTheresa Klein talks about Achilles, the first machine to move in a biologically accurate way. "Our robot, named Achilles, is the first to walk in a biologically accurate...
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Saturn's Moon Titan Has A Soft, Crusty Surface, Like Freshly Frozen Snow
Huygens Landing NASA/JPL/ESA A small lander eight years ago bounced around a bit but didn't splat. Walking on the surface of Titan would be like walking on a beach while the tide is going out,...
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Why Felix Baumgartner's Mission Was Nearly Aborted At The Last Minute
Felix's Faceplate Problem Felix Baumgartner communicated closely with Joe Kittinger, foreground, throughout his two-hour ascent to a record-breaking 128,100 feet--at one point switching to a private...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Teenagers Take More Risks Than Adults
Mammoth Half Pipe John Lemieux via FlickrBut not because they're just more attracted to danger Teenagers take more risks than younger children and adults, a fact that is borne out by statistics and...
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