Loch Ness, Like a Giant Level, Shows How Scotland Bends With the Tides
The Earth's crust bends and deforms in response to ocean tides, and this barely noticeable warping affects other bodies of water as well as the land, according to a new study. With exacting precision,...
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Early Lives Of The Scientists: Teen Isaac Newton Admits to His Sins
Isaac Newton Sir Godfrey Kneller The Newton Project, a UK organization that's putting the complete works of Isaac Newton online, is featuring an amazing list of 48 "sins" that 19-year-old Isaac...
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Predictions for 2012: Now or Never for the Standard Model of Physics
Higgs Search Todd Baxter in the beginning of the beginning, the exploding hot universe was full of elementary particles, but the particles had no mass. The universe also contained force fields, and one...
View ArticleLG's 55-Inch OLED TV Is a Four-Millimeter Beauty
Four millimeters thin. But not yet for sale. At the very first press conference of this year's CES, LG started things off by making my (pretty nice!) TV feel like the 32-inch CRT that's in my hotel...
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New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented...
Smokestacks Salim Virji via Flickr If cleaning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was easy, we'd already be doing it. But carbon capture has proven to be a tough technology to feasibly roll out on a...
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New Artificial Cheese Rind Can Turn Organic Material Into Safe Sealant
Camembert Camembert has a characteristic soft white coating that protects the maturing cheese until it's ready to be eaten. Wikimedia Commons A new material based on blue cheese fungus can attack and...
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What, Exactly, Is an Ultrabook?
Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook AcerWe'll be swimming in sleeker, lighter, faster PC notebooks in 2012, thanks to Intel's brand new guts and a major marketing push. Here's how to cut through the hype...
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Amateur Video: Phobos-Grunt's Last Days In Orbit
Phobos-Grunt In Space ... For Now Thierry Legault Days before Phobos-Grunt reenters the atmosphere, a new video captures the failed Mars probe traveling backward above the Earth. Its solar panels face...
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The First 4G Windows Phones (and Enormous Android Phones), Coming from AT&T...
HTC Titan II HTCWhether you want a huge phone or a huger phone, AT&T's got you covered Most of the wireless carriers have scaled back on coverage at CES, but AT&T is still here, loud and proud,...
View ArticleFujifim's X-Pro 1: Compact Rangefinder Style, Now With Interchangeable Lenses
See the pretty photos in PopPhoto's hands-on gallery Details about Fujifilm's intriguing new camera have been leaking out for weeks now, but they took all of the wraps off at CES and the result is a...
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To Track Mental Illness, Researchers Are Taking the DNA Of Century-Old Brains...
Preserved Brain Wikimedia Commons DNA extracted from canned human brains could help researchers studying mental health disorders, if scientists can figure out how to mine it. Preserved brains taken...
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Samsung's Diving into the Future of TV With a 55-Inch OLED Set, For Sale This...
Samsung Super OLED TV Adrian Covert via GizmodoWe don't know when, other than "this year," but Samsung's intent to sell marks a big step in TVs As the world's largest and most popular TV manufacturer,...
View ArticleNokia Is Finally Bringing Their Windows Phones to America
A better version of the best Windows Phone we've ever used--coming to America Here at Nokia's press conference at CES, the Finnish company just announced what we so nicely asked for: a Nokia-made...
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Invisible Warriors: The Future of Camo
New Camo Courtesy Special Operations AppsClothing that adapts to hide you whatever your surroundings are Camouflage works by confusing the brain. Disruptive patterns obscure a form's outline, making...
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An Aerial Drone That Could Recon the Skies Over Titan
AVIATR Michael J. Malaska Drones: they're not just for controversial cross-border airstrikes anymore. Physicist Jason Barnes has designed a robotic aircraft that could cruise the methane skies of...
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The Largest-Ever Quantum Calculation Uses 84 Qubits and Takes Just 270...
Quantum Computer Courtesy D-WaveThe answer was 8 Vancouver-based quantum computer maker D-Wave Systems is the kind of company that often gets mixed reviews--either kudos for working on the very edge of...
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Popular Photography Anoints CES's Best Photo Gear
Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujifilm's X10 and X100, with their modern rangefinder-inspired styling, are standouts in the crowded advanced-compact-camera field. Now, the X-Pro1 brings the same sleek look and...
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Video: A 32 MPH All-Terrain Electric Skateboard Steered With a Kinect
One of the most fun Kinect hacks we've seen in a while gives the idea of motion capture a whole new meaning. Behold the Board of Awesomeness, an all-terrain motorized longboard wired to a Kinect and a...
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Existence Finally Confirmed of Hypothetical Particle That Could Help Cool the...
Criegee Biradicals Could Scrub Air Pollution from the Sky Gyre via WikimediaWelcome the Criegee biradical We can fit everything we knew before today about Criegee biradicals inside the period at the...
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World's Smallest Memory Bit Stores Data Using Just 12 Atoms
Smallest Storage Unit Spin-polarized imaging with a scanning tunneling microscope reveals the structure of the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It consists of just 12 iron atoms ordered in...
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