Mary Beth Griggs
at 20:27 PM Dec 26 2015
Robots // 

Move over reindeer, it's Rudolph the red-nosed robot now. Boston Dynamics, the maker of military-grade robots capable of carrying cargo, balancing, running really fast, and hurling cinderblocks across the room wants to wish you a happy holidays. And also give your children nightmares before christmas.

Alexandra Ossola
at 11:42 AM Oct 7 2015

More patients are receiving genetic tests for mental illness to help their doctors identify which medications will be most effective. But the tests may not be all they're cracked up to be; an investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, published yesterday in the Boston Globe, found questionable evidence and rife conflicts of interest in an industry unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The result, as one researcher wrote in an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this year, are “claims [that] are not harmless and may be quite dangerous.”

Mary Beth Griggs
at 09:36 AM Jul 20 2015
Robots // 

Apparently, robots like road trips. A Canadian robot, hitchBOT started out on a cross-country road trip today, planning to travel from Boston, all the way out to San Francisco, sightseeing along the way.

Lydia Ramsey
at 10:28 AM Feb 11 2015
Science // 

Boston's having a rough go with snow. In the past 30 days, six feet of flakes have buried Beantown. There's so much snow on the ground, in fact, that the city and surrounding regions are considering dumping it into the ocean to make room on the roads.

Mary Beth Griggs
at 08:58 AM Nov 6 2014

With the specter of rising sea levels threatening many metropolises worldwide, cities are starting to rethink what their future might look like. And in Boston, that future might look a little bit like Venice, canals and all.

Kelsey D. Atherton
at 07:38 AM Aug 14 2014

The Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2013 had a great lineup: Fun., Dirty Projectors, and Of Monsters and Men, to name a few. The event also included ten cameras that recorded over 50 hours of video surveillance footage on the thousands of concert goers at Boston's City Hall Plaza. An investigative series by the Boston area free weekly DigBoston recently unearthed this surveillance, which was done on behalf of the city. 

Rose Pastore
at 01:41 AM Jul 4 2013
Science // 

Two men with HIV seem to have been cleared of the virus after receiving stem-cell transplants to treat their lymphoma, scientists announced Wednesday at an International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur. One of the men has now been off off antiretroviral therapy for 15 weeks; the other stopped taking HIV-suppressing drugs seven weeks ago.

 
1 2 ...
Sign up for the Pop Sci newsletter
Australian Popular Science
ON SALE 29 OCTOBER
PopSci Live