superpowers

10.14.08

PopSci Readers Want to Know: How Can We Get Superpowers?

In this installment of our regular reader-on-reader action, let's figure out how to create a race of super-readers

By PopSci Staff Posted 08.11.2008 at 12:25 pm 10 Comments

How can we get our own superpowers? Is exposure to radioactivity a reliable way to go, or cosmic rays, or toxic waste? Perhaps gadget-assisted powers are more within reach.

Discuss your theories, successes, and near-successes in the comments. Also: what power do you most want, and what do you plan to use it for?

Submit your science and technology questions to fyi@popsci.com.

[ Read Full Story ]

READ MORE ABOUT > fyi live, self-improvement, superheroes, superpowers

It's the Nanomeds, Stupid

The Issue: The new comic-book movies take pains to update science-speak. The lingo is nonsense, but it sure is a hoot

Posted 06.01.2005 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

First off, let me just say that i'll enjoy watching The Thing, a 600-pound creature made of orange rock, stop an oncoming 18-wheeler with his shoulder every bit as much as the next guy. But it's not the action scenes that get me excited about a movie like The Fantastic Four, which premieres on July 8. Whenever a new comic-book movie debuts, I get a kick out of seeing how the filmmakers finesse the science.

[ Read Full Story ]

And the Ig Nobel Goes To . . .
Coke as spermicide, placebo prices and the ovulation cycles of strippers were just some of the winning studies this year
2008 Paris Motor Show
With promises of production by early next decade, car makers focused their energies on battery power at this year's Paris Motor Show
Pedal-Powered Panzer
A tank welded from junkyard parts -- that shoots hot dogs

+ More Photo Galleries

Share your photos in the Pop Sci pool at www.flickr.com!
Current theme: Seasonal Science
Our latest winner

regarding	user	just commented
Deserts in the Ocean	C Q Scafidi	As a resident of New
Deserts in the Ocean	Chipper Smoltz	"Eugenics is the goal,
The Mouse That Runs Anywhere	Chipper Smoltz	Hi JRS ONE, Then maybe one
Deserts in the Ocean	AWattsJr	It seems that everything
The Mouse That Runs Anywhere	JRS ONE	@ Chipper The problem with a