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Italian Scientists Convicted Of Manslaughter For 'Inexact' Earthquake...
Damage From The L'Aquila Earthquake Wikimedia CommonsThe six scientists and one ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison after prosecutors said they assured the public there...
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Dentists Could Soon Diagnose Cancer By Looking At Your Saliva
Dentist Is The New Doctor U.S. NavyNew tools that extract disease biomarkers from saliva could make your dentist your first line of diagnostic defense. Your dentist could soon be your new doctor. Don't...
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SPONSORED POST: The Ryobi ONE+ System
Consider the garage, a storage unit for houses across America. What do they all have in common? A few automobiles, probably a lawn mower and a tangle of cords, a heap of chargers and a stash of...
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A Satellite View Of Glacial Melting
In this timelapse, NASA satellites capture unusual weather patterns in the Arctic. Greenland lost a lot of ice this summer. In this timelapse video, an iceberg 12 square miles in size breaks off from...
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Brand-New Vaccine Strategy Works Against Herpes, And Potentially HIV
Memory T Cells Illustration by Michael Helfenbein via YaleNewsCoaxing T cells to combat genital herpes at the source is good. Talking them into blocking HIV is even better. Yale researchers developing...
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Science Says Sex Addiction Is For Real. Here's How To Diagnose It.
Coupling Wikimedia Commons‘Hypersexual disorder' might be included in the updated mental health bible, but first scientists have to define it. UCLA scientists have some suggestions. Tiger Woods,...
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Eating Cooked Food Made Us Human
Cooked Food Made Us Human Wikimedia CommonsRaw food takes too long to digest and offers too few calories to grow a human brain. Cooking it is the key. Gathered around a blazing fire, our ancient...
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Watch A Humanoid Robot Walk A Tightrope
From the inventor of the bicycle-riding 'bot, a new creation This robot is one of quite a few created by DrGuero2001 (or Masahiko Yamaguchi, a robot-builder with credentials, as he's known outside of...
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Can Andrea Rossi's Infinite-Energy Black Box Power The World--Or Just Scam It?
Andrea Rossi's Black Box Photograph By James WorrellRossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his...
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The iPad Mini Is For Snobs, The Kindle Fire Is For Dumb-Dumbs
50 Shades of Kindle Dan NosowitzUsing advanced (read: 4th-grade-level) mathematics, we have concluded that the iPad Mini will be used by smart people/awful snobs. So today is the day of the iPad Mini...
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Puppies Only Pick Up Yawns When They're Old Enough To Understand Empathy
Yawning Husky Wikimedia CommonsDogs catch yawns from humans, but not if they're too young. To perform this study, Danish scientists cuddled with puppies all day. Dogs catch contagious yawns just like...
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Apple Goes Small At Today's Announcement With iPad Mini
Apple iPad Mini AppleToday in California, Apple goes smaller. The new, 7.9-inch iPad Mini, super thin iMacs, more powerful Mac Mini, and a shinier MacBook Pro. Check back for updates! Alright folks,...
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FYI: How Do Places On Mars Get Their Names?
Near Glenelg, Mars The Mars rover Curiosity shot this image on its way to Glenelg, an area in Gale Crater where three types of geologic formations converge. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science...
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Infographic: How A Raw Food Diet Kept Primates Stupid
Raw Diets Mean Tradeoff Between Brawn and Brains Emily ElertFor human ancestors, raw diet meant tough tradeoffs between brawn and brains. Humans differ from their primate ancestors in a few obvious...
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Listen to Your Intuition, Because Your Body Can Predict Future Events Without...
Storm Front Coming Wikimedia CommonsHumans can predict the future when we have some evidence--like clouds and the smell of rain hinting at a storm. But can we anticipate future events without sensory...
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Infographic: Horses And Bayonets? Guns And Butter?
How Many? The number of ships and horses in active duty during WWI and today. Additionally, the US Navy's strength versus the rest of the world. Emily Elert/Martha HarbisonIs our Navy really the...
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9 Anti-Snoring Aids From 1917 That Look Like Medieval Torture Devices
Anti-snoring device: November 1917 PopSci archivesFrom the PopSci archives: These inventions may have silenced snores, but they were totally evil. Snorers are selfish, horrible people, it's true. But...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Uses Its Laser As A Sand Blaster
Curiosity is scooping lots of sand nowadays, and using its laser to study what the sand contains. NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been scooping Martian sand inside itself to rinse out its instruments,...
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Now Live: The November Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
The Deep-Space Suit Nick KaloterakisEditor-in-chief Jacob Ward introduces the latest issue, which features cutting-edge materials science, a beginner's guide to space mining and more. In this job, I'm...
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Video: Blue Origin Tests Its Rocket Crew Launchpad Escape System
Blue Origin's Pad Escape System Going up. Blue OriginAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight endeavor, usually quite secretive about its West Texas operations, gives us a peek at its latest test...
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