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Lifting James' Giant Peach Would Have Required Way More Seagulls Than Roald...
James and the Giant PeachIllustration by Nancy Ekholm BurkertPhysicists calculate how many newtons of force would be needed to carry the peach across the Atlantic. Ah, physics: Taking the world's...
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CES 2013: Hands On With Sony's Waterproof Xperia Z Smartphone
Perhaps the best smartphone Sony's ever made. But that's not saying all that much. For a company that pioneered mobile gadgets with the Walkman, for a company that owns a major record label and movie...
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How To Watch Menacing Space Rock Apophis Fly Past Earth Tomorrow
Deadly Space RocksESA - P.CarrilThere's an ever-so-slight chance the asteroid could impact Earth in 2036. Although not nearly as threatening as it was first perceived to be upon its discovery, the...
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#OverlyHonestMethods Hashtag Reveals How Science Is Really Done
#OverlyHonestMethodsStorify/Beckie PortIn 140 characters or less, the info that didn't get through peer review. If an experiment is any good, the process needs to be replicated. That requires some...
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CES 2013: 4K Is This Year's Most Amazing Tech, And It's Completely Impractical
Samsung 4K TVSamsungEveryone's freaking out about 4K at this year's CES. Here's what it is, and why you should (and should not) care. A German guy just came around with a cameraman, asking people in...
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CES 2013: Hands On With The Razer Edge Gaming Tablet
Razer Edge From SideDan NosowitzA goofy gaming tablet with detachable joysticks ends up being a damned impressive Windows 8 machine. We've known about the Razer Edge--a Windows 8 tablet designed top to...
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CES 2013: Canon's New PowerShot N Is Button-Cute, And Button-Free
Canon is showcasing a new version of the PowerShot N at CES, and it is ahhhh-dorable. The refreshed compact camera has a squarish form with rounded edges and checks in at about 3 inches by 2.4 inches...
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Researchers Reverse Engineer Fireflies To Make More Efficient LEDs
Fireflies In The ForestWikimedia CommonsFireflies have a neat trick for conserving light. Turns out, it could work for LEDs, too. Sometimes, a trick gets pulled off better in nature than it does in a...
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2013 Prediction: Science Funding Remains Strong
Barack Obama Signing At His DeskWikimedia CommonsBarack Obama's second term should see the same focus on funding science and technology--although the budget ax is looming. Science and technology have...
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New Data: Americans Hate Congress More Than Root Canals, Cockroaches Or...
Which Is Worse? The People Have Spoken What do you have a higher opinion of: Congress or Nickelback? Congress 32% ; Nickelback 39% ; Not sure 29%. It's a tough one, for sure. Wikimedia CommonsBut...
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Mysterious Hacker's Riddles Lead Japanese Police To Memory Card Hidden In A...
All-Knowing CatWikimedia Commons Because when it comes to hiding clues, all other locations pale in comparison. If you're looking for worldwide press and Internet attention, there's really only one...
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Kickstarter Celebrates Its Greatest Hits Of 2012
Banana PianoKickstarterCivilian space suits, banana pianos, high art, and lots and lots of money To help us understand just how big of a year 2012 was for Kickstarter, the folks over at the...
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Study Finds A Daily Dose Of Peanuts Under Your Tongue Helps Treat Peanut...
Potentially Hazardous Wikimedia Commons Placing a small amount of allergen under the tongue every day helped decrease participants' sensitivity to peanut powder. Peanut-fearers, rejoice -- new research...
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CES 2013: The Secret Side Of CES
An international glimpse into the future. Away from the glitz and flash of the show floor, the place to get the best glimpse of what's next is at the International Gateway, where Asian manufacturers...
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Segway Inventor Patents A Gadget That Sucks Food Directly Out Through A Port...
AspireAssistAspire BariatricsEat anything you want, then remove some of it before it's digested. This is the good news about a recently-patented gadget that sucks food out of the stomach: it could work...
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Japan's 2011 Earthquake Happened In An Area Considered Low-Risk. Where's Next?
Devastation After Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, March 2011U.S. Navy/Wikimedia CommonsNew clues show how the massive Japanese earthquake happened, and how certain faults could pose a previously unrealized...
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Fomalhaut B: The Mote in Sauron's Eye
Sauron's Eye Hubble images taken in 2012 confirm that Fomalhaut b is a planet, and an unusual one at that. NASA and ESAThe controversial exoplanet Fomalhaut b has been spotted, and it's even stranger...
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Video: This Robotic Cardboard Cockroach Is The World's Second Fastest Legged...
VELOCIRoACH, The Robotic Cardboard CockroachBased on the biology of the cockroach, VELOCIRoACH is the fastest robot of its size in the world. The world's fastest legged robot mimics the cheetah. The...
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CES 2013: Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Is Freaking Amazing
Oculus RiftDan NosowitzThe Kickstarter-funded Oculus Rift reminds us that virtual reality can be truly mind-blowing. Virtual reality sounds almost quaint in these days of OLEDs and 4K and the Kinect...
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Program An Arduino In A Few Simple Steps
Hack An ArduinoThe Big Book Of HacksAn Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape. STEP 1 Arduino microcontrollers come...
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