Archive September 2009
Still no word about the xenomorphs, though
For everyone out there who's been fighting aliens with a flamethrower, but now needs something with a little more kick, you're in luck. Panasonic has taken a break from hawking TVs and camcorder to build the power loader from Aliens.
Designed by Panasonic subsidiary ...
If it were up to us, everything would be faster by at least one order of magnitude, but the laws of physics often get in the way of unlimited speed and efficiency. Take fiber optic data transfer: the pulses of light carrying data through the worldwide network of fiber optics ...
Aurora photographer David Zentz’s image of Haitians bathing in the Saut-d’Eau waterfall has been published in the UK’s leading travel magazine, Wanderlust. The image reveals a physical cleansing ritual in a waterfall believed to have sacred water - all part of the Haitians’ annual pilgrimage to Saut-d’Eau in central Haiti ...
Software designed to detect life in outer space is now being repurposed to look for signs of artificial life developing in complex computer systems on Earth
In the beginning, there were organic molecules. And they were good, but unorganized. Then, those organic molecules formed proteins, and evolution kicked in and started ...
No, that glowing pickle isn't a promotion for rave night at Katz's, it's a demonstration for how your TV works. In this ingenious twist on the classic potato clock, MIT professor Vladimir Bulovic transforms a humble full sour into a giant OLED pixel for our learning pleasure.
OLEDs are nothing ...
Long hoped to represent the point where superheavy elements don't immediately decay, Ununquadium turns out to be not so stable after all
More than 10 years after Russian scientists first claimed to create atoms of Ununquadium, the unstable element in position 114 on the periodic table, scientists at Lawrence Berkley National ...
A DOD-backed project would give ships a regenerating slime layer to help shed unwanted marine life
Slime ships ahoy! A vessel that oozes a continual slick layer of slime from its hull could shed barnacles and other marine life forms, and possibly cut its fuel consumption by up to 20 percent.
Such ...
An unusual combat robot controlled by neural signals made its debut at Japan's Robo-One competition
Future humans may look back on this mind-controlled stabbing robot as a forerunner to battle mechs and Gundams. But the one-armed stabber failed to win out in the latest Robo-One competition held in Toyama, Japan over ...
The Future--what a place. A time more than a place, perhaps, but here at PopSci, a tangible thing. To wit: our future world where we'll sniff stem cells, control cyborg beetles and film HD video--all in space. Here, a glimpse of said future, as illustrated by some of the best ...
A knife-like boat design provides a covert, fuel-efficient ride
An undercover team of Navy SEALs isn’t worth much if their transport boat’s wake betrays their approach. Nor does it help if they come ashore with back pain and possible organ damage from the boat’s constant bouncing. A sleek new hull design ...
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