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PSY, Mars, And Gabby Douglas: Google Sums Up The Year That Was 2012
PSY The Korean pop sensation's music video, "Gangnam Style" has 935 million views on YouTube, more than any other video. YouTubeWell, it's mid-December, so it's time to get all misty about the past...
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A Hauntingly Beautiful Skateboarding Video Shot With A Hexacopter Drone
Tapping the overhead shooting ability of an unmanned aerial system, filmmakers generate an eerie Tron-like motif as only overhead photography can. FIREFLY from samadhi production on Vimeo.Among those...
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For New Lamps, An Unlikely Energy Source: Gravity
As long as you reset a weight every 30 minutes, you can have a continuous, battery-free light source. GravityLight: lighting for the developing countries from T4 on Vimeo.Kerosene lamps used in...
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Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money
Happy Old ManWikimedia CommonsPeople save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you...
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Why North Korea's Latest Rocket Launch Does Not Spell Imminent Doom
DPRK's Successful LiftoffNorth Korea's entrance into the small group of spacefaring nations is certainly significant. But the idea that it is nearing an intercontinental nuclear capability is...
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Modernization and Discretionary Income Positions Africa On The Rise
Move over, Asia: One of the world's fastest growing regions is actually Africa, where greater stability, growing foreign investment, and the emergence of a consumer class are fueling an economic boom....
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Could Scientists Have Found A Gay Switch?
Pop Art Couple© Rceeh | Dreamstime.comEpigenetic molecules that regulate genes may influence homosexuality. Gayness may not be in our genes, but in the molecules that regulate them. New research...
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5 Science Toys For Dogs (And Their Nerdy Owners)
Fetch Machine Show your show an ideal ball toss (over and over and over) to teach it classical mechanics. Courtesy ActiveDogToys.comNearly as many dogs live in U.S. homes as kids, and they're smarter...
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How To Make Beer [Infographic]
How 1933 brewed beerPopular Science archivesCheck out this beautiful 1933 brewing guide from the pages of Popular Science. When the United States ratified the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933, Popular...
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Thank You, Apple Maps. Now Go Away Forever
The New Google Maps for iPhoneGoogleiPhone owners: let's raise our glasses to Apple Maps, which has, indirectly, given us a better iPhone. And then let's get rid of it. The terrifying few months of...
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North Korea's Satellite Is Tumbling Out Of Control
North Korea: Rocket Is Good, Satellite Not So MuchThe rogue nation reached space on Monday, but its orbiting 'space vehicle' is now hurtling uncontrolled and poses a threat to other satellites. Here's...
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BigPic: NASA Discovers Largest River Ever Seen On Another World
Titan Nile This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a vast river system on Saturn's moon Titan. It is the first time images from space have revealed a river system so vast and in such high...
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The Robotics Revolution Is Happening
The X-47BClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Douglas Sonders"We are still at the 'horseless carriage stage of this technology," Peter Singer says in a new Brookings Institute piece on...
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Which Cuddly Land Mammals Are Most In Danger From Climate Change?
Now that the most adorable animals are under threat, surely we'll turn the tide on the warming planet. Many species of mammals are at a greater risk of extinction due to the predicted rise in extreme...
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Hubble Captures Earliest Views Yet Of The Universe
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 This new image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign reveals a previously unseen population of seven faraway galaxies, which are observed as they appeared in a...
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New Venomous Primate Species Discovered In Borneo
Kayan LorisCh'ien C. LeeResearchers discover an adorable (yet scary!) species of slow loris. In the jungles of Borneo, an international team of researchers have discovered a new species of slow loris,...
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Popular Photography's Camera Of The Year Is...
Canon EOS 5D Mark IIISatoshiIt's that time of year again--the time of year to take incredibly detailed macro shots of pointsettias. And what better camera to do it with than the Canon EOS 5D Mark III,...
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NASA's Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon On Monday
GRAIL Probes In Orbit An artist's depiction of the twin spacecraft (Ebb and Flow) that comprise NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MITNASA is deliberately...
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Annotated Machine: How Robots Could Recycle Dead Satellites In Orbit
DARPA's plan to recycle the orbiting satellite graveyard Approximately 1,300 nonfunctional satellites sit in a graveyard orbit 22,000 miles above Earth-and Darpa has plans for them. Recycling dead...
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Are You Healthy Enough To Fly To Space?
Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Carrying LauncherOneVirgin GalacticA medical journal has published a paper urging clinicians to learn the ins and outs of human spaceflight so they'll be ready to clear patients...
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