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Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields Through Magnets Implanted in His Fingertips
Engineering

Electrical Engineer Can Feel Magnetic Fields Through Magnets Implanted in His Fingertips

And he's answering your questions on Reddit

Living in the Future: Multitouch, or How I Learned to Love the Mac
Technology

Living in the Future: Multitouch, or How I Learned to Love the Mac

How one small, unobtrusive program totally changed the way I interact with computers

This Week in the Future, May 7-11, 2012
Science

This Week in the Future, May 7-11, 2012

The 10 Best Quotes From the Study That Proves Cereal Tastes Better With Milk Than Water
Science

The 10 Best Quotes From the Study That Proves Cereal Tastes Better With Milk Than Water

But how does it taste with other fluids? Grapefruit juice? Motor oil? Liquid nitrogen?

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps
Robots

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps

Making Preserved Food Actually Taste Good
Science

Making Preserved Food Actually Taste Good

Preserving food isn't hard--the challenge is in the flavor (or lack thereof, or disgustingness thereof)

Do You “Possess” What You View Online?
Internet

Do You “Possess” What You View Online?

The New York Court of Appeals just ruled that "viewing" child porn online is not the same as "possessing" it. But is the idea of "possessing" a digital file outdated?

Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)
Aviation

Anyone Can Build an Enormous Next-Generation Jet Engine (In Holographic 3-D)

PopSci Q&A: How Nanoracks Sends Scotch, iPhones and School Experiments to Space
International Space Station

PopSci Q&A: How Nanoracks Sends Scotch, iPhones and School Experiments to Space

A private, non-governmental space cargo company

China Takes Off
Aviation

China Takes Off

The largest nation on Earth is flying more people more places than ever before. Its struggle to do so without (further) destroying the environment could show the rest of the world a greener way to travel

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken
Medicine

Video: FlexLeg Pseudo-Prosthesis Lets You Run When Your Leg Is Broken

Curious Things That Fall From The Sky
Science

Curious Things That Fall From The Sky

Video: How to Fold the Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes
Aviation

Video: How to Fold the Longest-Flying Paper Airplanes

Two paper-folding masters demonstrate the principles of flight with custom PopSci airplanes

Classic FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
Ask Us Anything

Classic FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?

What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human?
Science

What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human?

In his book The Most Human Human, Brian Christian looks at the artificial intelligences we've built, and what they say about us

The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA
Agriculture

The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA

Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More Potent Bird Flu
Environment

Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More Potent Bird Flu

Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed
Technology

Bandages Made of Edible Starch Could Dissolve On Your Skin Once You’re Healed

No need to peel them off

Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene
Technology

Meet Silicene, Single-Atom-Thick Sheets of Silicon That Could Supersede Graphene

The Jets of the Future
Aviation

The Jets of the Future

How NASA and aircraft engineers intend to shape the future of air travel