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Video: How Flies Somersault to Safety Just Before You Swat Them
Somersaulting to the Wing via New Scientist Ever wonder why flies always get away when you try to swat them? It turns out they're extremely acrobatic. Like, Neo-in-the-Matrix acrobatic. And New...
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A Tiny Transistor Hooks Up To Individual Proteins In Human Tears
Lysozyme Folding P.G. Collins/UC IrvineListening to lysozymes with one of the smallest transistors ever made Wiretapping an enzyme and listening as it unfolds could shed new light on the way proteins...
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ISS Video: Lightning Over Africa, Backlit By the Milky Way
ISS Over Africa via YouTubeThe International Space Station affords a pretty decent view The best space images are the ones that put our humble place in perspective, whether it's an image from the moon...
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Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Peruvian Burial Ground
Ancient Peruvian Sacrifice Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Mariana Bazo/ReutersAn offering of children and llamas Last August in Huanchaquito, a town on the arid northern coast...
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Tesla's Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars
Tesla Model S Tesla Until now, there hasn't been an all-electric car fit for road-tripping. But Tesla's Model S, due out late in 2012, is made for extended drives. Its battery goes up to 300 miles on a...
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Gallery: Interactive Gym Equipment to Make You Sweat Smarter
ProForm Tour de France Claire Benoist Working out can be boring, and sometimes the easiest way to get moving is to be entertained. But new interactive gym equipment brings real-world workouts to your...
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Artificially Intelligent Thermostat Automatically Creates a Climate Schedule...
Nest Learning Thermostat Claire BenoistAnd it looks great. Greater than we'd ever expect a thermostat to look, at least Programmable thermostats help save money by resetting the temperature when...
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The Most Amazing Images of the Week, January 16-20, 2012
Polar Color Photographer Alexander Semenov shoots rare creatures found in the White Sea, northwest of Russia. This underwater slug is just one of the many (all incredible) shots you can browse through...
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This Week in the Future, January 16-20, 2012
This Week in the Future, January 16-20, 2012 Baarbarian Good thing all that noise about SOPA and PIPA worked, at least a little. Otherwise you might not get to see this week's great Baarbarian...
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The Goods: January 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Gibson Firebird X Claire BenoistA 3-D scanner, cellphone LoJack, an ultra high-tech guitar, and much more Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These...
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Tested: A Chemical Time Machine Makes Whiskey Taste Older, Faster
Machine Aged Chris BuzelliSouth Carolina inventor ages liquor overnight It takes only 48 hours to distill a barrel of whiskey. The next decade is spent making it taste good. The liquor undergoes...
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In Its First Night Flight, the F-35 Soars at Sundown
The F-35's First Night Flight Lockheed Martin The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter hasn't enjoyed a whole lot of good press lately, with a slew of budget overruns, technology concerns, and one very public...
View ArticleThe Maximum Airspeed Above Which Birds And Drones Are Bound to Crash
In pursuit of fleet-footed prey, the northern goshawk wings through thick forest canopies and underbrush at breakneck speeds, dipping and diving to avoid colliding with trees or other obstacles. But...
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Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act of Jumping from Our Universe to...
The Multiverse The idea that there are multiple universes present in further dimensions of space isn't new, but a team of scientists think they may be able to lend it some credence by observing...
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Video: DARPA Rubs a Flame With an Electric Wand to Extinguish It
Deflecting Fire DARPA A recently-concluded DARPA program sought to extinguish fires using unusual methods. No water or simple common chemicals for DARPA: instead, this is "a novel flame-suppression...
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Tiny Tunable Terahertz Beam Could Enable Real Handheld Tricorders
Nano T-Ray Antenna The top image shows a T-ray antenna with nanogap electrodes; the bottom is a typical photomixer with connected electrodes. The electric field is amplified in the nanogap version....
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A Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a...
Sunday's M9-Class Solar Flare, Whose Associated CME is Now Earth-Bound NASA/SDO and the AIA Consortium There was a time when one rarely had to worry about incoming doom born of outer space, but that...
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Massive Anti-Doping Testing Facility Unveiled for the Olympics, Will Run 24x7...
Olympic Drug Testing BBC The BBC just got a look at the newly-unveiled anti-doping testing facility that'll be used at the London Olympics this summer, and it is rightfully hailed as the most...
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A Recumbent Tricycle Allows Those Who Have Trouble Balancing to Cycle
Support Vehicle Coherent Images Our inspiration came from a classmate who has spina bifida-a split spine-and can't ride a regular bike. Our trike has extra back support and a steering system to make...
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DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication: Reading Users' Minds
Making You Your Own Password MyDigitalSLR via FlickrDon't worry about passwords, fingerprints, retina scans -- your brain is unique Having contributed in large part to the Internet's very existence,...
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