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BeerSci: What To Drink During A Hurricane
Hurricane Malt Liquor The cure for what ails ya. Self-medication is only the start. Team BeerSci is trapped at home with a few Zone A refugees and we're contemplating how to pass the time as Hurricane...
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The Dictionary Of Hurricane Sandy: Wind Shear
Wilma's Wind Shear, October 2005 A wind shear plot of Hurricane Wilma. Wunderground.comA lot of meteorological terms will be thrown around for the next few days. We're here to define them so you can...
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The Latest On Hurricane Sandy's March Up The East Coast [Live Update]
Hoboken Terminal meetingpeopleiseasy3:18 p.m.: 8.5 million homes are without power. That represents 7 percent of the U.S. population. Here we go, folks. Hurricane/snowstorm/apocalyptic omen Sandy is...
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How The PopSci Staff Prepares For A Hurricane
Kindle Paperwhite Glows Dan BracagliaMost of the Popular Science staff is based in New York City and the surrounding areas, which is great usually, but not so much today. Here's how we prepared for the...
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5 Things Hurricane Sandy Reveals About Global Warming
Sandy Makes Landfall Climate change may worsen and increase the frequency of storms like hurricane Sandy -- with some caveats. NCDOTcommunications/FlickrIt's tempting to link the nature of this week's...
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This Massive Indoor Hurricane Simulator Could Save Your Life
SUSTAIN Cambridge SevenIn a giant aquarium in Florida, scientists are creating 150 MPH hurricanes About two years ago, Brian Haus, the chair of the Division of Applied Marine Physics at the University...
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IBM Transistors Made Of Nanotubes Could Replace Silicon, In Ever-Tinier...
Logic Gates From Carbon Nanotubes IBM via ExtremeTechSilicon can't keep up with our demand for smaller and faster chips, but IBM researchers may have found a way to continue accelerating chip...
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Daily Infographic: Gorgeous Wind Map Captures Sandy In Real-Time
Wind Map of Sandy A screengrab of the Wind Map infographic taken at 10:26AM 30 Oct 2012. Fernanda Viégas and Martin WattenbergInfographic artists visualize a storm's haunting beauty, using real-time...
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The Fastest Science Machine In The World
Meet Titan NVIDIAOak Ridge National Labs has deployed what should be the world's fastest supercomputer when the world's petaflops are tabulated next month, and it is dedicated to open science. With the...
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Roku's New One-Stop Search Finds Your Video, Regardless Of App
Roku One-Stop Search RokuThis is the way search should work. You don't want to guess if The Big Lebowski is on Netflix or Amazon; you just want to watch it. This morning, all newish Roku boxes--that's...
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To Deflect Asteroids From Earth, Deploy Paintballs By The Ton
The Paler, The Better An image mosaic of Asteroid 253 Mathilde from June 1997. NASAAn MIT grad student found the coolest possible way to veer an asteroid off course. We can't do much to deflect a...
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Cheap New Nanoparticle HIV Test Gives Fast Results Visible To The Naked Eye
Red and blue test tubes Armin KübelbeckThe highly sensitive test turns blue for a positive result and red for a negative one. It could be altered to detect other diseases, such as malaria and sepsis....
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Video: Steve Jobs's Yacht Unveiled At Last
Steve Jobs Yacht Tech.UK.MSNBCIt's sleek. It's huge. And it's controlled by an iMac. It's the yacht that Steve Jobs commissioned before his death, and it was just unveiled in the Netherlands this week....
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Lebbeus Woods, Futuristic Architect, Dies
Lower Manhattan Lebbeus Woods The influential architect, who once proposed a traveling space station to memorialize Albert Einstein, died today. Lebbeus Woods, an experimental architect, artist, and...
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In New York, The Day After Sandy
Having weathered the storm, PopSci staff in New York venture out on Tuesday to inspect the aftermath.
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Disney Will Release A New Star Wars Movie In 2015
What Disney-Sanctioned Stuff Are We Going To See First? Newlaunch.comFor better or worse, the $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm gets Disney the rights to Star Wars. Disney has bought Star Wars. In a...
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What Not To Do In A Superstorm
East Williamsburg flooding Martha HarbisonWondering what it was like in New York when Sandy made landfall? Popular Science senior editor Martha Harbison took to the streets (and now totally regrets...
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This Halloween, Celebrate The Beautiful Bat
Do Not Fear This Sleepy Guy This is a Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadaria braziliensis) from Bracken Cave, near San Antonio, Texas. He does not want to hurt you. Ann Froschauer/U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
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Coiled Beams Of Light Send 100 Terabits Per Second Through The Air
Information Autobahn DavviEngineers could use the technology to produce the fastest Internet ever. By twisting light beams, engineers could produce the fastest Internet ever. Today, for the speediest...
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Here's Why The New Boxee TV Won't Have Amazon Instant Video
Boxee TV With Remote BoxeeBoxee's exclusive retail partner is none other than Walmart--which means lots of promotion for Boxee, but also means no Amazon. Here's why. Boxee, the underdog startup which...
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