Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
Raw food takes too long to digest and offers too few calories to grow a human brain. Cooking it is the key.
‘Hypersexual disorder’ might be included in the updated mental health bible, but first scientists have to define it. UCLA scientists have some suggestions.
Coaxing T cells to combat genital herpes at the source is good. Talking them into blocking HIV is even better.
The six scientists and one ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison after prosecutors said they assured the public there was a low chance of disaster.
The yeast S. cerevisiae is instrumental in brewing ale. But did you know that it's also instrumental in helping scientists better understand cells?
Hint: It's a good thing not everyone lives like an American.
New findings demonstrate how the moon could have been made from Earth parts, not kamikaze-planet pieces.
Was the movie Contagion more realistic scientifically than your average doomsday zombieland flick? Tonight at the New York Academy of Sciences, PopSci contributor David Quammen will lead an expert panel in addressing that question—and speculating what the next deadly viral outbreak may look like.
They're gorgeous images, published with convenient timing.
A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.
Whether to eat a treat now or save it for later depends on a child's worldview--which can be manipulated.
And what do voters really care about? The authors of "Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work At All Works So Well" weigh in.
When the Navy needs to surprise and overwhelm an inland enemy, it can send in its new Zumwalt-class destroyer.
A Japanese invention allows you to send smells via phone. Sort of.
