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This Week In The Future: Fish On Land, Wolves In The Sky

In the future, the great Pixel Wolves Of The Sky will look down below on the mutated fish. The wolves will be hungry but also weirded out.

By Baarbarian Posted 12.14.2012 at 5:57 pm 1 Comment

This Week In The Future, December 10-14, 2012

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Science

A Nest Made For People And Other Amazing Photos Of The Week

Including surreal pictures of food, a rarely seen "singing" dog, and more

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.14.2012 at 5:30 pm 4 Comments

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Science

How Many Model Rockets Would You Need To Get To Space? [Infographic]

A lot of them! And that's just if you know how to stack them for optimal use.

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.14.2012 at 12:00 pm 16 Comments

XKCD Explains What We've All Been Wondering About Model Rockets

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Science

Sculptures Reimagine Pasta And Bamboo As Bacteria And DNA

Artist Sinead Foley remakes kitchen goods, modeling them on the microscopic.

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.14.2012 at 11:00 am 4 Comments

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Technology

R.I.P. Pixels?

Give the pixel five years, researchers say, and it'll be dead--cast aside for a vector format.

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.12.2012 at 12:00 pm 11 Comments

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Technology

BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image

A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn't, and what he was seeing

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.11.2012 at 4:00 pm 1 Comment

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Science

3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real Time

Part painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand.

By Clay Dillow Posted 12.10.2012 at 6:00 pm 5 Comments

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Science

A Face Made From Dismembered Dolls And Other Amazing Photos From This Week

Plus: a chandelier made from thousands of acrylic gummy bears, a homemade "wormhole," and more

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.07.2012 at 5:00 pm 4 Comments

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Science

Megapixels: A Dew-Covered Damselfly

A very up-close look at the insect

By Laura Geggel Posted 12.07.2012 at 10:56 am 3 Comments

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Science

How To Floss And Marry Your Way To Immortality [Infographic]

If only correlation were causation! Still, there's some fun info here.

By Colin Lecher Posted 12.06.2012 at 5:30 pm 5 Comments

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Science

This Is What Thinking About Nothing Looks Like

Artist Gustav Metzger hooked his brain up to a robotic sculpting machine that carved based on his thoughts. Then he tried desperately to think about nothing.

By Clay Dillow Posted 12.03.2012 at 4:00 pm 10 Comments

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DIY

Awesome Color Wheels Made From Musician Names And Song Titles [Infographic]

Would you paint a baby's room Blue Oyster Cult?

By Colin Lecher Posted 11.28.2012 at 10:00 am 0 Comments

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Announcements

Happy Thanksgiving From PopSci!

The PopSci staff will be out of the office the rest of this week so we can spend some time with our families. (We'll miss you, too.) In the meantime, enjoy our favorite posts from this week.

By Baarbarian Posted 11.21.2012 at 3:00 pm 6 Comments