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Why Do Children Think Covering Their Eyes Makes Them Invisible?
Peekaboo I see you. doctorlizardo via FlickrYoung children nearly universally seem to think that closing or covering their eyes makes them invisible to others. Cambridge researchers are finding out...
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The First Feathers To Retain Heat In Any Weather
Drenchable Down Brian KlutchDown that stays warm when wet. The warmest, lightest jackets and sleeping bags all have one thing in common: down insulation. Down, the soft underlayer of a goose's or...
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How Designers Plan To Create 'The Route 66 Of The Future'
Dynamic Paint Studio Roosegaarde & HeijmansRoads that light themselves, paint that warns you about icy conditions, and more from the zany Dutch design lab Studio Roosegaarde The folks behind the...
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Circumnavigating The World To Map The Polluted Skies
The Soot Surveyor The device picked up high particle levels over the Gulf of Thailand. Courtesy Matevž Lenarčič Fighting atmospheric soot is one of the easiest ways to combat global warming. A...
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A Bloody Seeping Hole In My Foot, And Other Memories From A Field Biologist
Wet Socks Bad Robert S. Donovan "When your feet start to bleed - and boy, will they ever - don't panic. The hole that appears to be eating its way into the space between your 4th and 5th toes on your...
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BeerSci: How To Brew A Beer In A Week
Red White and Blue Brewskis Peddler11Want to make a homebrew by Election Day? It's possible! A couple of days ago, one of the PopSci.com edit staff asked me if it was possible to brew a beer in time...
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Mystery Animal Contest: October 26th, 2012
Mystery Animal: Oct. 26, 2012 BigTallGuyGuess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. UPDATE: We...
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How To Hack Your Alarm Clock [Gallery]
An Alarm Clock Lazy Susan for Lazy People, November 1939 If, when you wake up in the morning, your arms are simply too weak to lift your alarm clock from your bedside table and shut it off, wait until...
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GameSci: Want to Dominate The Game? Set Your Morals Aside
Dishonored Bethesda Softworks LLCMost people play through a "moral choice" game like BioShock or Fallout making the same decisions they'd make if presented with those choices in real life. But not...
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Hurricane Sandy, The "Bride Of Frankenstorm," From Above
Hurricane Sandy Click here to see this scary storm even larger! NASA GOES Project Hurricane Sandy, nicknamed "Bride of Frankenstorm" because it's almost Halloween and because meteorologists are just...
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Google Maps The Grand Canyon And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Google At The Grand Canyon Google is bringing its street-view empire to the Grand Canyon. The cameras aren't the coolest, but seeing a panoramic of the Grand Canyon from anywhere? Awesome. Google via...
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This Week In The Future: Turn On And Tune Out With Robots, Dinosaurs, And...
This Week In The Future, October 22-26, 2012 BaarbarianIn the future, a strange entertainment cube will cause us to hallucinate yawning puppies and T-rexes. (The tightrope-walking robots on TV will be...
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With Gap In Satellite Funding, The Next Sandy Could Come With No Advance Warning
Political fuss about satellite funding means that the U.S. may soon be without weather prediction capability. As Hurricane Sandy approached over the weekend, we were all glued to our media sources,...
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How Hurricane Sandy Could Influence The Outcome Of The Presidential Election
President Obama Discusses Hurricane Sandy With FEMA Officials Courtesy White House / Pete Souza Will Hurricane Sandy's impact be felt in the November elections? Research shows that incumbent parties...
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Archive Gallery: A Century of Weather Control
May 1990 Fighting hail with chemicals, combatting tornadoes with computers, and other weather-battling techniques from the PopSci archive Ever since we left prayers to the rain gods behind, we've been...
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The Dictionary of Hurricane Sandy: Spring Tide
Hey Moon: Stop Helping Hurricanes! NASA/KennedyA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can understand what's going on. Welcome to the...
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The Dictionary Of Hurricane Sandy: Baroclinic Energy
Hurricane Sandy: 10:16 a.m. Monday Wunderground.comA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can understand what's going on. Welcome to...
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To Stop A Hurricane, Shoot It Full Of Dry Ice?
From the PopSci archives, an audacious plot to knock out hurricanes What's crazier than a Frankenstorm on Halloween? This U.S. Weather Bureau plan from 1956 to steer away hurricanes by seeding them...
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The Dictionary of Hurricane Sandy: Storm Surge
Storm Surge Versus Storm Tide NOAAA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can understand what's going on. Welcome to the Dictionary...
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Here's Everything Google Announced At Today's Android Event
Google Nexus Family GoogleEast Coast: Hurricane. West Coast: A whole bunch of new gadgets, including a new Nexus tablet and smartphone. Enjoy it, you dirty Californians. While we in New York cower...
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