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You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone
Drones

You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone

This spy in the sky is designed to hack into communications systems

Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever
Technology

Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever

Copied from pitcher plants; destined for ketchup bottles

What the Defense Department Wants For Christmas
Technology

What the Defense Department Wants For Christmas

Military dreamers unleash their latest wishlist

For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins
Stem Cells

For the First Time, Lab-Grown Blood Is Pumped Into a Human’s Veins

FYI: Why Do Old Married Couples Look Alike?
Ask Us Anything

FYI: Why Do Old Married Couples Look Alike?

Fashioning Apollo: What to Wear Into the Hostile Realms of Space
Space

Fashioning Apollo: What to Wear Into the Hostile Realms of Space

A history of how to dress when leaving the planet

Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human Doctor Can
Cancer

Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human Doctor Can

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Could Go Drill For Ice on Mars
Science

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Could Go Drill For Ice on Mars

How Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen
Heart Disease

How Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen

GPU-driven processing is bringing the predictive power of supercomputers to the radiology suite

Russian Probe Launches Today, Heading to Mars’ Runt Moon
Science

Russian Probe Launches Today, Heading to Mars’ Runt Moon

To Keep a Steady Stream of Satellites Going Up, DARPA Wants to Launch Them from Airplanes
Technology

To Keep a Steady Stream of Satellites Going Up, DARPA Wants to Launch Them from Airplanes

Video: NASA Is Working On a Tractor Beam That Can Reel in Particles with Light
Technology

Video: NASA Is Working On a Tractor Beam That Can Reel in Particles with Light

And Yet… And Yet…
Technology

And Yet… And Yet…

Do we really gain anything from the ceaseless profusion of data?

Hopper, What Are You Working on Today?
Space

Hopper, What Are You Working on Today?

Lawrence Berkeley Labs' biggest energy research resource knows that big science often happens at very small scales--and very high temperatures

The Greatest Data Thefts in History
Technology

The Greatest Data Thefts in History

A history of information crime, from the secret Chinese recipe for tea production to massive data breaches at Google and Sony

PopSci Q&A: Seth Lloyd Talks Quantum Computing and Quoogling
Science

PopSci Q&A: Seth Lloyd Talks Quantum Computing and Quoogling

The director of the Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory at MIT answers our biggest questions

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
Sustainability

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By providing its citizens with a steady stream of personalized, real-time data, the ninth-largest city in Iowa is changing the world

Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker
Technology

Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker

Got money on the name of the next pope? We spoke with Paddy Power on how predictive data modeling helps set the odds on a huge range of 60,000+ bets per week

Secret Security Supercomputer Cielo, What Are You Working on Today?
Technology

Secret Security Supercomputer Cielo, What Are You Working on Today?

Maintaining America's nuclear deterrent is a 24x7 job, but Cielo isn't complaining.

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time
Science

Bringing Biodiversity Data Online, One Leaf At A Time

Converting millions of pressed plants into a vital digital archive