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The Navy's Gremlin Uses Sonic Waves to Find Underground Bombs
A Man, a Robot, and a Mission Courtesy G4 The tools for safely disposing of explosive threats like improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have come a long way over the last decade, but one rule of...
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Found: The First Ever Saturn-Like Exoplanet Surrounded by Orbital Rings
The hits just keep on coming out of Austin this week as the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society rolls on. Researchers there have announced the discovery of the first Saturn-like ringed...
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New App Downlinks Mars Rover Images Straight to Your Smartphone
Opportunity at Endurance Crater NASA Amid all the excitement about the new Mars rover, some people (not us) might forget there's a functional one up there already, still driving around craters and...
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What's the Most Efficient Design For a Solar Collector? Shape It Like a...
Concentrated solar power plants could get an efficiency boost inspired by flowers, according to MIT researchers. Designing solar mirrors in a spiral pattern similar to sunflower heads could reduce the...
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Next-Generation Surveillance Robots Can Analyze Their Environment
Snakebot Courtesy Special Operations Apps Manned surveillance missions are critical to obtaining useful intelligence. But sending a soldier into sensitive areas can often be too dangerous. Scientists...
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The Prettiest Space Pics From This Week's Annual American Astronomical...
Cygnus X: Star Birth in Vivid Color Captured in infrared by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, this image of Cygnus X (part of the constellation Cygnus, or the Swan) is made beautiful by massive stars...
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The Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
Invisibility Chip Reuters/David Moir The science of stealth has long been a matter of fading into already obscure environments-the night sky, say, or the deep sea. But engineers are now developing...
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How Can I Tell if My Phone's Performance Measures Up?
StrongPhone Thilo RothackerHow to make sure your browser, CPU, and network speeds are keeping up with the iJoneses and Jonesdroids Without conducting some tests on a smartphone, it's hard to tell...
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The Most Amazing Images of the Week, January 9-13, 2012
Therapeutically Cute A Japanese robot called the Babyloid (a name so close to making sense in English but still falling a touch short) is designed to be cute. That cuteness, which manifests in its...
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Camera and Lens Guts
Exploded Camera Stan Horaczek While we were out looking at superfast blast-chilling fridges and shiny new phones and other gadgets, the hard-working photo nerds at our sister site Popular Photography...
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This Week in the Future, January 9-13, 2012
This Week in the Future, January 9-13, 2012 Baarbarian The PopSci staff has been darting all over the country this week--Las Vegas, Detroit...I guess that's it, but still, those are two places more...
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Borderworld: How the U.S. Is Reengineering Homeland Security
The Crossing The Zaragoza-Ysleta International Bridge in El Paso, Texas, is one of the 300 ports of entry where customs officials inspect the more than 350 million travelers and 100 million vehicles,...
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SpaceX Delays the First Launch of its Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS (Again)
Dragon on Approach to the ISS Artist's rendering NASA/SpaceX The first launch of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to the ISS has been delayed yet again. No new date has been set, but the SpaceX apparently...
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Space Telescopes Paint A New View of Eagle Nebula
A New View of the Pillars of Creation Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite of far-infrared images from Herschel and X-ray images from XMM-Newton shows how hot...
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Wikipedia Joins Legion of Sites Going Dark Wednesday In Protest of SOPA...
Blackout Wikipedia From social networking sites to megacompanies, tomorrow will be a dark day on the Internet. Wikipedia has joined the list of web giants who plan to shut off temporarily on Wednesday,...
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The Army's Newest Surveillance Drone Can Shoot 80 Years' Worth of Video In a Day
Sometimes the whole is more than the sum of its parts, and the U.S. Army is about to find out if they can create some amazing ISR synthesis by combining two pieces of bleeding-edge technology from its...
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Video: Rescuing Disaster Victims With Snake Robots Deployed By Dogs
Snakebot CMU via YouTube Dogs and robots are both known for their search and rescue abilities, but each has its own flaws. Robots can't sniff, and other than barking, dogs can't relay specific...
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The Northernmost Dish In The World: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Polar Bears
Cold Dish Greg White Sten-Christian Pedersen oversees the northernmost antenna array on Earth, 25 dishes tracking about 100 satellites on the small archipelago of Svalbard, 500 miles south of the North...
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Metamaterials Can Exert a Whole New Kind of Force
Gecko Toes and Their Optically Adhering Counterpart via arXivSimilar to the mysterious clinging ability of geckoes Today in crazy tricks of physics, a few researchers over at the University of...
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Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
Entangled Qubits Clusters of entangled qubits allow remote quantum computing to be performed on a remote server, while keeping the contents and results hidden. EQUINOX GRAPHICSDouble-blinded by the...
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