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Launching Soon: PopSci's Online Innovation Pavilion
InnocentiveWe're going to be launching an online "open innovation" pavilion in partnership with Innocentive.com, where anyone - companies, nonprofits, government agencies, universities - can put up...
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Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel
Lateral Acceleration Going forward too fast is dangerous enough, but a sudden sideways knock can be deadly. Most airplanes' overhead bins can withstand up to 14 Gs of lateral acceleration, but humans...
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2011 Invention Awards: A Portable Motorized Body Board
Zips across lakes and rivers at 25 mph When Jason Woods was 19 and living on his own for the first time, he decided to buy an old ski boat. The 1969 Sportster was perfect for driving girls around Lake...
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Students' Innovative 3-D Vision System Wins Prize
Tsinghua's 3-D Viewing SystemYang HaoPopSci and National Instruments hand top honors to a Chinese team that could revolutionize 3-D This week I had the honor of crowning the winner of National...
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Enter the Popular Science/InnoCentive Education Challenge
Learning BiologyAtli HarðarsonLast few days to win $5,000, and help create the next generation of scientists Monday, October 31, is the deadline to enter our education challenge. We're looking for fun,...
View ArticleFinal Day of the PopSci / InnoCentive Education Challenge
Your last chance to win $5000 for a science lesson plan--enter now! Popular Science, in partnership with InnoCentive, is looking for your ideas for lesson plans for grades 6-8 in five specific science...
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How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space
A New StandardSatoshiIn 1999, professors Robert Twiggs of Stanford University and Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University began to standardize the satellite business. They designed...
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PopSci Innovation Challenge: Tracking Electronic Waste
Discarded GadgetsCourtesy Chris JordanCan you come up with a way to follow discarded gadgets? Our latest featured challenge is a tough one. EMC is looking for a way to track electronics as they're...
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Who Is To Blame When A Robotic Car Crashes?
Take The WheelJonathan CarlsonSociety must make two big leaps in order to enable truly self-driving cars. The first is technological. Engineers need to improve today's cars (which can warn a driver...
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New Research Could Identify Nature's Most Dangerous Viruses--If It's Public
Communicable ScienceRyan SnookLast year, Nature and Science prepared to publish research describing how to mutate H5N1, a deadly bird flu, into more-contagious forms. The papers could help scientists...
View ArticleNow Live: The January 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, explains why he's excited for 2013. I believe 2013 will be a grand year. Big things are coming. First of all, astronomers expect a cloud of gas roughly...
View ArticleCES 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...
View ArticleNow Live: The February 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, has some questions about humanoid rescue robots. In 2010, I had the pleasure of writing our cover story about CHARLI-L, the first bipedal, self-contained...
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Now Live: The March 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Brain PowerMedi-MationJacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, wonders why we can't get into the same funding spirit for science as we do for supertall skyscrapers. Why do we build incredibly...
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I Didn't Like TED. Then I Got It
TED welcome partyTED ConferenceThis was my first year at the cultural cartoon, crossroad of power, and factory of influence that is TED. I've spent my career following the rich and freewheeling through...
View ArticleEditor In Chief Jacob Ward On The April 2013 Issue Of Popular Science [Video]
Why SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket made the cover. Go here to read the April issue of Popular Science.
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Now Live: The April 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
The SpaceX Falcon HeavyNick KaloterakisOn the last Sunday before this issue went to press, the lights went out at the Super Bowl. I sat there, gaping, with a drink in my hand, as the ads, the field,...
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Now Live: The May 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Synergy AircraftNick KaloterakisIn 2007, my first year of working at Popular Science, we launched the Invention Awards, a celebration of dogged innovators everywhere, and gave one of the first to...
View ArticleNow Live: The January 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
http://ak.c.ooyala.com/FlaWUxYjrV2ARYYn_4hLJ1LNKNd_VhMt/3Gduepif0T1UGY8H... Please enable Javascript to watch this video I believe 2013 will be a grand year. Big things are coming. First of all,...
View ArticleCES 2013: The Secret Side Of CES
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 show off their ability to make pretty much...
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