The massive oil spill from a BP offshore drilling rig threatens marine ecosystems and fisheries as it makes its way to the shoreline. Here's how it looks from above.The Macondo well is spilling 5,000 barrels of oil per day into the gulf, about five times more than
Read more...
It's an issue that has long tormented frequent text and email writers: How do I know if someone is being sarcastic? And, more importantly, will that person realise I was being sarcastic, or will they actually think I liked their cover version of Adam Ant complete with bongos and cowbell?
Sarcasm
Read more...
A special property of Earth's organic molecules could be caused by supernovae, a new study says - suggesting that life's building blocks were created not on Earth, but elsewhere
Read more...
This laundry-folding robot may not find many fans at the local laundromat, but only because it takes so long in holding up each towel for scrutiny before folding. Still, its fussiness speaks to a special care for laundry -- or painstaking programming routines -- that
Read more...
In an effort to increase efficiency, cut carbon emissions, and reduce costs, Finland has begun a pilot program wherein snail-mail letters are
Read more...
What we regularly refer to as "night vision goggles" are actually less like goggles and more like heavy, bulky (and outrageously expensive) pieces of machinery. But DARPA-funded research at the University of Florida in the US has adapted technology regularly found in flat-screen
Read more...
Volunteers living in the Christchurch area have organised a huge relief and clean-up campaign via Facebook, in the wake of Saturday's earthquake.
Measuring a massive 7.1 on the Richter scale, the earthquake caused widespread devastation to New Zealand's second largest city. The Student
Read more...
The ESO's VISTA telescope has released a magnificent picture of the Tarantula Nebula in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image was taken at the start of VISTA's Magellanic Cloud survey, covering 184 square degrees of sky (about a thousand times
Read more...
For all the government conspiracy militia nuts out there, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there is no such thing as silent, stealth black helicopters. The bad news is that, thanks to Eurocopter's noise-cancelling
Read more...
Sterilization is hands down one of the most important technologies ever developed by mankind, but though we've known how to do battle with bacterial pathogens in places like the operating room for decades, superbugs like MRSA and Clostridium difficile persist in hospital
Read more...
Scientists douse frogs with experimental bacteria to halt mass amphibian death
For years, every time Vance Vredenburg visited his study area in Kings Canyon National Park in California, he tallied about 100 Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs. But in 2005, all the San
Read more...
The world's thinnest consumer TV is now available in Australia. The eye watering looks match the eye watering price tag!
Read more...
It?s all happening in the skies at the moment with airlines being awarded, new flights heading in and out of the country as well as new carriers coming in
Read more...
The aviation industry is suffering during this economic climate and Qantas has been hit hard
For
Read more...
JAL outdoes US Airways in the ?Look what we can suck into our engines without injuring any passengers? game?
Yesterday
Read more...
Our computer doesn?t blow up. Is this really a Microsoft product?
That?s right, Popular Science
Read more...
Caught on camera: A SouthWest Airlines Boeing landing at Houston Airport has had a tyre burst on landing and catch alight
Last night a SouthWest Airlines Boeing 737 plane?s tyre blew on landing and then caught fire. The difference with this emergency was that the
Read more...
Microsoft has been hitting the headlines a lot with the release of Windows 7 RC1 to the public. Now check out its next trick, My Phone in open beta
Read more...
The title pretty much says it all. The video says it even better!
You're not supposed to be operating electronic equipment during take off and landing, but people do anyway. Just check out the amount of take off and landing videos on You Tube. When this video was
Read more...
New Pre and new iPhone in one hot week? Plus news on the new Motorola MotoSurf A3100 phone
An
Read more...
No, Oprah is not turning into Jerry Springer, rather, she?s helping Virgin America celebrate the launch of in-flight internet access
Read more...
Popular Science has been a leading source of science, technology and gadget news since 1872. With up-to-the minute latest space news, insightful commentary on the new innovations and concept cars ...if it's new or future technology you'll find it at popsci.com.au.
WW Media - Popular Science © 2010
Gadgets - Cars - Science
