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Stuffing Your Face With Holiday Cookies Disrupts Your Body Clock, Just Like...
Christmas CookiesWikimedia CommonsSnacking at the wrong time of day interrupts the body's food clock. Blue-spectrum light and weird work schedules can easily interfere with our bodies' master clocks,...
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Forensic Crime Labs Are A Mess. What Happened?
Rechtsmedizin der Charité BerlinRalf Roletschek/Wikimedia CommonsThe Justice Department is reviewing thousands of FBI cases for flawed forensic work that could've contributed to the conviction of...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Being Nice Helps You Make Friends
The ButterCream GangFeature Films For FamiliesA new study finds that kids really do like other kids who are nice. After conducting a month-long study with several hundred Canadian tweens, researchers...
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How Bat Genomes Could Help Make You Healthy
Flying Fox The Black flying fox was one of two bat species selected by the researchers for comparative whole-genome analysis. Their findings shed light on genetic changes associated with the evolution...
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The 12 Best Gadgets We Reviewed This Year
Parrot AR.Drone 2.0Dan BracagliaFrom tablets to gaming consoles, smartphones to personal drones, and much more, these are the 12 gadgets that earned PopSci's top marks this year. Click to launch the...
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The Most Egregious Science Mistakes In Movies This Year
Total Recall movieColumbia PicturesSci-fi movies should bend the rules to impress audiences, but they can't play people for complete fools. Review the most science-distorting movies of 2012 in this...
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What Kind Of Violence Kills Americans? [Infographic]
Violent DeathsClick here to see this image larger.Todd Lindeman/Washington PostThe leading causes of violence-related deaths, for everyone in the United States. Over at The Washington Post, Todd...
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10 Of The Greatest Entertainment Innovations Of 2012
Sony VPL- VW1000ES Sam KaplanThe best of what's new in cameras, sound, gaming and more Never has it been easier to kick back, relax, and enjoy the home entertainment of your choice. In this gallery,...
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Human Penis Size, Illuminati, And The Other Most Popular Wikipedia Pages Of 2012
The Most Popular Page on WikipediaWikipediaSome science and tech. More movies and celebs. A barebones site has collected the 100 most popular Wikipedia stories from each major language. The different...
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The Great Antarctic Search For Life Is Over (For Now)
McMurdo Dry Valleys, Home Of Lake VidaRobert Simmon, based on data provided by the NASA GSFC Oceans and Ice Branch and the Landsat 7 Science TeamThe Lake Ellsworth drilling project was supposed to be a...
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What It's Like To Use The Beautiful, Futuristic Nest Thermostat
Nest Thermostat Nest programs itself based on your habits, and even tells you how long it will take for your home to reach the desired temperature. NestBeyond the hype, what's the day-to-day life of a...
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The 6 Best Video-Game Experiments Of 2012
Turning Glitches Into Art Glitches in games are usually a bummer. But Rosa Menkman makes surreal art through a video game that's meant to be glitched out. Rosa Menkman via Co.DesignA spin through the...
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Popular Science's Best Longreads Of 2012
From a teenage nuclear genius to the most violent video game we've ever seen, here are the best works of longform journalism we published this year. The Battle Over Climate ScienceClimate scientists...
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Enter the 2013 Popular Science Invention Awards
The Popular Science Invention AwardsGarage inventors, we want to hear about your world-changing devices. Submit your entry by January 14, 2013. World-changing devices don't need to come from big labs...
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The Greatest Science Photos Of The Year
Don PettitMikhail Metzel/EPA/NewscomFrom an explosion on the sun to creatures from the depths of the ocean, we assemble our favorite pics from 2012. It's been a great year for science--Curiosity! The...
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This Week In The Future: Happy (?) New Year!
TWITF: Dec. 28, 2012BaarbarianWe hope your NYE festivities are more fun than this one. Want to win this hungover Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter (we're...
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Our Favorite Science Infographics Of 2012
100,000 StarsGoogleA roundup of the data visualizations and illustrations that best conveyed the year in science As an increasingly connected world generates ever-more data sets, and the tools to...
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FYI: Why Do We Crave Greasy Food When We're Hung Over?
A hangover-friendly sandwich Wikimedia CommonsIn part, we're really just going back to our caveman roots. The desire to eat high-fat foods after drinking too much is rooted in human's earliest,...
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6 Of The Best Eco-Friendly Innovations Of 2012
Cleaner ColorsSam KaplanThe lean, green tech machines of the year. Here's the latest technology in the eco-universe. We have shirts that require less water in the dyeing process, a backpack that...
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Does Pot Use Cause Psychosis, Or Does Psychosis Cause Pot Use?
Cannabis BudWikimedia CommonsReefer madness! Pot causes psychosis! Except maybe not. The link between teenagers smoking pot and psychosis is ripe for a correlation-causation debacle. Studies have...
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