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Flexible, Paper-Like Tablet Computers Work Together To Make Computing More...
PaperTabs: Like Paper, But TabletsHuman Media LabBut in a good way. There's a lot of consumer electronics news flooding out of CES in Las Vegas this week, but one of the more interesting technology...
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CES 2013: Audi Demonstrates Its Self-Driving Car
Audi Connectcourtesy AudiIt picks you up when you're ready to leave your hotel. Move over, Google: Audi has demonstrated its own self-driving car here at CES 2013, although engineers involved with the...
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Kinect Will Save The Indigenous Rock Art Of A Paraguayan Tribe
Panambi'y Rock ArtFrank WeaverA documentary team is using the 3-D imager to quickly digitize generations-old rock carvings before they are lost. Frank Weaver is a documentary filmmaker and native...
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The Self-Assembling, Self-Healing Material Of The Future Is... Blood
Blood ClotHsieh ChenScientists have figured out how clots form in the blood, and are using the same method to develop a new class of materials. Somewhere inside of your body right now, a delicate...
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The Best Of CES 2013: Popular Science's Products Of The Future
iRiver On at CESValencellIncluding e-medicine pods, a 4K tablet, Audi's self-driving car and more Let's agree on one thing: CES is a spectacle. Giant TVs, cars of the future, internet-enabled...
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How To Rescue A Plane From Water
Plane RecoveryFlying magazineIt takes an almost surgical approach to retrieve a plane if it goes underwater. Not only does the team in charge of the recovery need to know every detail of the plane...
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For Mystery Novels With Accurate Scientific Detail, A Badge Of Authenticity
Raymond ChandlerWikimedia CommonsGet the science right, get a stamp from the Washington Academy of Sciences. The Washington Academy of Sciences is offering a different kind of peer review: they'll take...
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Earth Bacteria Can Survive And Grow In Extremely Hostile, Mars-Like Conditions
Mars In Living Color The Mars rover Curiosity captured this image of the rock outcrop informally named "Shaler" on Dec. 7. The area covered by the image spans about 3 feet (90 centimeters) in the...
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CES 2013: Talking To Basis About The First Intelligent Fitness Tracker
Fitness trackers need to get smart before they can really help us. And the Basis Band might be the first one to really get it. We spoke to Basis and got a little video demo for you guys at CES 2013....
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The 'Intelligent' Rifle, Now With iPad App, Wi-Fi, Infallible Accuracy
Tagging The Target: TrackingPoint's Downrange ViewTrackingPointAustin-based TrackingPoint shows off its new 'precision guided firearms' that allow the shooter to choose the shot before pulling the...
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Daily Infographic, Beer Edition: The Beer Flavor And Aroma Wheel
Beer Flavor Wheel Beer writer Mark Dredge separates out the different flavors and aromas of beer by their source: hops, grain, water and yeast. Those with slightly less adventurous palates might be...
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BeerSci: How To Make Strong Beer Stronger
Beersci LogoTodd DetweilerFractional freezing will concentrate any beer, provided you have a bit of patience and a very cold freezer. Team BeerSci was marooned in The Land of Always Winter (aka New...
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Via Our Friends At Sound & Vision: The Toughest Headphones Ever
Boom R4A SwapBrent ButterworthDo you have one or more pairs of broken headphones at home? Us too. Which is why we're excited about this post, from our sister publication Sound & Vision, about a new...
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New $120 Million Department Of Energy Center Will Tackle Rare Earths Shortage
Rare-Earths China produces the vast majority of the world's rare-earth oxides. Wikimedia CommonsWith China holding the vast majority of the world's rare earths resources, the DOE is looking to...
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CES 2013: Smartphone-Powered Robot Is The Soundtrack Of Your Life
A buddy that makes playlists for you. Rather than build a robot from scratch, startup TovBot built the Shimi to leverage the brainpower of an Android device or iPhone 5. The one-foot robot can create...
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Meet Diego-San, The Humanoid Robot Toddler
Diego, TetheredUCSDA project spanning robotics, computer science, developmental psychology, and machine learning aims to figure out how one-year-olds learn to interact with the world. Anyone who has...
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CES 2013: Wrap This Goop Around Your Fingers Then Smash Them With A Hammer
A super weird, rubbery non-Newtonian fluid that could be the next great material to protect your gadgets. We were strolling through one of CES's auxiliary events, actually on our way to the bar, when...
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Faraway Quasar Group Is The Largest Structure In The Universe
The Largest Structure In The Universe And the brightest. Artist's rendering, of course. ESO/M. KornmesserIt would take a light-speed craft 4 billion years to get from one side of the group to the...
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Animal Grunts Are Structured Like Human Speech
Banded MongooseUniversity of ZurichBasic animal sounds can work sort of like Morse code, containing specific messages. The evolution of speech is a complex story, but one key feature is we humans'...
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More Evidence Emerges That "Hobbits" Were A Separate Species
Homo floresiensis The Lian Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, where the remains of Homo floresiensis were found in 2003. Wikimedia Commons It's all in the wrist. While film buffs have been...
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